欧若拉公主
《欧若拉公主》：复仇女神的毁灭之路
Princess Aurora
片名：欧若拉公主
译名：Princess Aurora
导演：方恩珍
剧本：方恩珍
主演：严正花
文圣根
类型：剧情/动作/犯罪
级别：18岁以上可以观看
片长：106分钟
制作：Est Film
发行：Cinema Service
上映日期：2005年10月27日（韩国）
观众评分：8.01/10 (1415 votes)
官方网站：http://www.aurora2005.co.kr/
剧情简介
一个女人为了给死去的孩子报仇，一开始就连续杀死5个人，这个女人就是郑顺贞。这一角色就是《欧若拉公主》中严正花出演的角色。为逮捕她到案，刑警吴成浩（文圣根 饰）陷入了郑顺贞编织的谜团之中。一方面，吴成浩从郑顺贞留在凶案现场的录音“来找我吧”判定凶手是她，一方面吴成浩又苦于没有足够的证据。
郑顺贞行事古怪，每次都在杀人现场留下带有“欧若拉公主”这一标志的大头贴。大头贴上画有为给现今韩国30岁年龄段的人的童年留下幸福回忆的动画片《欧若拉公主》中的可爱公主形象。调查组陷入混乱状态，郑顺贞利用各种手段疯狂杀人。突然有一天她公开了杀人地点，在郊区的垃圾处理场，众多的韩国警察、媒体和市民聚集到了一起……
关于影片
《欧若拉公主》是女演员出身的方恩珍以导演身份的出道的第一部作品。同时也是严正花的的转型之作，因残忍的凶杀场面和被判定为18岁以上才可以观看的限制等级。在电影中因失去孩子而愤怒的开始连续杀人的严正花脱去了过去给大家看到的浪漫喜剧女主角的模样，转变成令人毛骨悚然的女子“郑顺贞”，她将这个角色诠释得非常完美。在严正花过去演绎的角色中，看不到的激烈的表演，《欧若拉公主》为她塑造了阴沉灰暗的新形象。方恩珍导演曾公开盛赞严正花是位杰出且拥有多变才能的演员，而严正花也表示因为有好的剧本让她主动接下这部电影。
在干燥且寒冷的韩国首尔市中心发生的连续杀人事件使方恩珍萌发灵感，导演表示为了表现城市中各色人物所拥有的欲望，选择了更大更华丽的地方做为影片背景。
方恩珍导演表示自己想表现出在人与人之间隐藏的奇妙欲望。只要是人任谁都会有悲伤、痛苦、伤痛的一面，但只是在日常生活中不表现出来，最后可能会引发严重的后果。严正花对此非常的认同。人生不会像自己心理想的一样顺利，导演放弃了以自己编写的作品为出道作的想法，选择了以表现因无法调适的心情导致犯罪的《欧若拉公主》。
关于主演
从1989年进入MBC合唱团开始，16年来严正花一直活跃于忠武路（韩国的好莱坞）和汝矣岛之间。她说：“20多岁时对演艺事业充满了憧憬，但现在感到很累，也很痛苦。有时会像身患重病一样的痛苦，有时又太陷入饰演的角色。”
她出演这样的角色，着实令人感到意外。撒娇和充满笑意的眼睛，在这方面无人能望其项背，而如今却扮演如此冷艳无情的角色，莫非是为了摆脱已经定型的清新形象？“改变形象？也许吧，但不至于是被强迫。我一直想尝试感情的极端。导演最后告诉我，相比演绎令人觉得理所当然的角色，让本不期待的观众惊讶更具有挑战性。我觉得这样会很有趣，所以决心进行尝试。”
由于《欧若拉公主》是演员出身的导演方恩真的处女作，这也是该片备受关注的原因之一。那么严正花是否也梦想着超越演员的范畴成为一个导演呢？她摇着头频频摆手表示不行。她说：“我认为演员想当导演是很好的想法，但是我根本没有这方面的才能。”她转移话题说：“拍摄完高潮部分后，立即用显示器进行确认时，我发现眼泪在导演的眼眶中打转。当时我就想，她终究也曾是一名演员。”
“我在忠北堤川的深山沟生活到高中1年级。那里的电视只有一个频道。提起来有些不好意思，这次我还是第一次知道有‘欧若拉公主’这一人物。”影片让我想起了江原道旌善郡的外婆家和少女时代的姨妈。“她一看到年幼的我，就会马上躲开。后来，在我小学3年级的时候，姨妈也生了小孩。我当时虽小，但也能感觉到她看我的目光不一样了。还记得当时曾跑到卫生间大哭了一场。”她说，拍摄《欧若拉公主》让她想起了姨妈。“女人一旦生了孩子，人生就完全改变了。她就会围绕着孩子生活。”姨妈给了她这样刻骨铭心的教诲。但是，万一如此珍视的孩子突然消失了会怎样？
在清州市的一个垃圾填平场里日以继夜工作8天，甚至意外地被片中对方律师挥动的拳头击中，使她鼻孔流血，但严正花却说：“感觉很充实。”影片《周末同床》（结婚是件疯狂的事）中直率的艳姬，《单身人》中勇敢的东美，《洪班长》中生机勃勃的惠珍，还有韩国票房榜首作品《我生命中最美的一周》中活蹦乱跳的友贞……虽然性格各异，但都是严正花塑造的，观众喜爱的人物。但此次却要演绎负担很重、很悲惨的妈妈郑顺贞。
《欧若拉公主》的成败关键在于，观众最终是否会赞同郑顺贞的做法。她说：“能否引起共鸣由观众来决定，但至少我可以说，自己能和自己达成共识，因此感到很幸福。”这时，严正花的眼睛里盛满了纯情。
Princess Aurora is a 2005 South Korean film about a mother, grieving the death of her child, who goes on a murderous revenge spree. Though it was released with far less fanfare, its violent theme earned it comparison to Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, released the same year. It was the directorial and writing debut of Bang Eun-jin, who had previously worked on Address Unknown and 301, 302.
Plot
Tagline: 늦어서 미안해 (Sorry I'm late)
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
In the ladies' room of a department store, a woman berates her stepchild and slaps her for calling her 'lady', then takes her into a stall and beats her. We see a young woman watching the stall, seemingly unsure of what to do. The stepmother finally puts the child out of the stall and orders her to wash up while she talks to her husband on her cellphone. The girl starts to wash her face when the other woman takes her by the hand and motions for her to be quiet. When the washroom is cleared of people she forces the stall door open and stabs the stepmother to death.
Investigating the crime are a young detective and his senior partner Detective Oh, who is studying to be a pastor and whose colleagues tease him for his constant prayer. From the crime scene they conclude that it was a revenge killing committed by a woman, using an instrument bought in the store. Detective Oh talks to the young girl who saw the killer but she refuses to tell him anything, insisting that she is not bad and he doesn't understand her.
The scene changes to a luxury car dealership, where the murderer works and we learn that her name is Sun-jong. Some male coworkers josh her for getting a heavy equipment license, and she tells them that her dream is to operate a crane. Later she goes with a friend to a hair salon; her friend berates the middle-aged deliverywoman who is too late bringing the food she ordered, and insults and humiliates her before stepping into a car with her older boyfriend.
At home, Sun-jung listens to a home movie of a young girl singing a nursery song. In a spa we see her friend receive a facial and the attendant steps outside to eat. Sun-jung, impersonating the attendant, binds her hands and suffocates her with the plaster used for facial masks. The detectives are perplexed and, though they cannot prove it, they believe the crimes to be linked. They interview the dead woman's boyfriend, who turns out to be the wealthy owner of a wedding hall -- as well as a friend of the mayor -- and he dismisses them.
The next day he goes for a test drive at Sun-jung's dealership. In the car with her he goes through an obviously rehearsed speech about his loveless marriage and invites her to drink with him. Later that night, with him nearly falling-down drunk, they dance together in his wedding hall. She gives him an energy drink laced with poison, and as he lays dying on the floor she plays a cassette tape of the singing child and tells him that he should remember her.
This time the police find a link among the crimes in the form of a 'Princess Aurora' sticker left at each crime scene. Detective Oh reviews the security tapes from the department store and notices Sun-jong -- his ex-wife. He goes to see her at her car dealership. They talk about their shared past and how the murder of their child broke their marriage, and the two sleep together that night. Sun-jung steals his handcuffs and drives off. In a restaurant she begins to seduce the waiter by pretending to be a naive ethnic Korean from China. Though he suspects her in the murders, Oh does not tell anyone that his ex-wife may be involved. He pays a former criminal to pick the lock to Sun-jung's apartment, and finds that she has kept their child's room the same as it was when she was killed a year prior. When he sees a picture of the same restaurant, he races out to go there, but it is closed when he arrives.
Sun-jong finds a taxi. Though the taxi driver considers it bad luck to have a woman as the night's first fare he takes her anyway. With the fare reaching almost , she asks him if he would take a child. He answers of course, that children are people too. She asks him what he would do if that child were a few dollars short of the fare, would he leave her alone in the middle of the night? Disturbed and frightened, he orders to leave the car and when he tries to force her out she shocks him unconscious with a taser. With him handcuffed to the steering wheel and suffocating with a garbage bag over his head, she pushes him down a flight of stairs and he dies. Summoned to the scene, Detective Oh finds a cassette tape of the children's song, sung by his dead child. He tries repeatedly to call her but her cellphone is turned off.
The next night Sun-jong returns to the store and arranges a meeting with the waiter. He drives her to a secluded spot and tries to force himself on her, promising her a job; as she is giving him oral sex, she draws out a pair of scissors and threatens to cut off his penis unless he stays still. She binds him with duct tape and forces him to curse at his mother when she calls his cellphone. She tortures him with the scissors and leaves him bound in the car. He escapes hours later and the police find the windshield covered in Princess Aurora stickers. Detective Oh finally relents and tells the police that the killer is his ex-wife, giving them her name and address before handing in his resignation. He realizes that her next victim will be the defense attorney Kim Wu-taek, who defended their daughter's killer with a successful insanity plea.
Sun-jung has arranged a tryst with Kim and they to a hotel. She answers his cellphone when Oh calls, and taunts him to find her. She smashes Kim's head with a lamp and they struggle until she knocks him out with a wine bottle. She ties him to a chair and smuggles him out covered in a washing machine box. As she drives she tells him that she may spare his life if she can remember who Oh Min-ah was, and taunts Detective Oh when he calls again. Kim remembers who her daughter was, relating the story of her rape and murder.
She drives to the landfill where Min-ah's naked body was found and hoists Kim on a crane before calling every news station in Seoul and the police. Surrounded by police and news crews, she hallucinates that she is Min-ah and nearly kills Kim before she is caught by police. We see a flashback explaining what happened to her daughter and why she killed her victims: she picks up her daughter from school, and Min-ah tells her that her friend's stepmother (the first victim) always her and she hopes she dies. Sun-jong gets into a car accident with the waiter and is delayed from picking up Min-ah from the friend and her boyfriend (the second and third victims) who were watching her. They close the store and leave her alone on the street; by nightfall she hails a taxi but is thrown out when she tells the driver she doesn't have enough money. Walking alone at night and crying, she is picked up by her killer.
Four months later Sun-jong is found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined to the same mental hospital as Min-ah's killer. Detective Oh smuggles in a razor blade; Sun-jong kills Min-ah's killer before committing suicide.