SUMMARY: A man is deep in debt and a crime lord makes him an offer as to how he can pay off that debt? Is it an offer he should refuse?
♦ It’s Not So Bad to Having No Eyes If You Can Imagine
In “Purple Mouth”, Jinsoo betrays his girlfriend, Heyoung, in the worst way. Well! It could have been worse than that. He could have sold all of her organs to pay off his debt. But he only sold her precious crystal clear eyes. After the eye operation, his girlfriend disappears. He thought they had killed her.
His girlfriend is a novelist. Even without her eyes she still has an imagination and can write a goooood story. She hired a ghostwriter, Baek Dongho, a guy who also happens to be in debt with the same crime lord. Jinsoo was not only in debt to the crime lord but he also works for him. There is another guy in the same situation, i.e. he owed the crime lord money to pay his debt too. The guy had been dodging the gangster because he didn’t have the money, so Jinsoo is told to hang out at his place until he showed up.
The other debtor finally showed up and Jinsoo demanded money. The guy says he’s a ghostwriter but he has not been paid yet. When he gets his payment he will pay his debt. He let Jinsoo read his manuscript. Jinsoo is shocked! The manuscript is the exact story of what he did to his girlfriend. But the story does not have an ending. Uumm … if he’s the ghostwriter, who is the real writer? The real writer is his former girlfriend Heyoung. Who else?
Jinsoo tracks her down. He tries to ask for forgiveness but also asked if the story she is writing is for REVENGE. If so, how does it end? But she had not written the end of the story yet. But she tells Jinsoo or rather promises him that the ending will be very interesting.
My personal rating is 8 out of 10 stars.
Trying to find info on “Purple Mouth” was very frustrating. The search engine results kept linking this movie to “Big Mouth”, which is a Hulu Original Korean drama series released in 2022. (???) It was also compared to a 2022 Korean movie titled “Mother Midnight” which is available on Tubi (which has an IMDb rating of 7.3 out of 10 stars).
“Purple Mouth” is slow-moving. The film gives off an artsy/low-budget/independent film vibe. It is rated for a mature audience and is about an hour. You won’t have time to decide if you love it or hate it. LOL. The one thing I don’t get is … why is this movie titled “Purple Mouth”? (O.o)
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Stash – Suspense & Thriller | Free Movies. “Purple Mouth.” YouTube, 2 Nov. 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UYaCs0ZTTo.
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ComingSoon.net. “Mother Midnight (2022) Trailer Previews Korean Thriller Starring Jiwon Lee.” YouTube, 14 Feb. 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNXaQpDsjHc.
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