...it's rather stunning to note that a North American studio thought that this garbage heap of a movie was worth releasing on home video.

*** This review may contain spoilers *** 8 out of 10 _When your time has come/ You know you'll be lonely once again/ And the final winter comes to us all -Memento Mori (2005), Kamelot_ Memento Mori (1999) is the second movie in the Yeogo goedam (aka Whispering Corridors) series, which I only had the chance to watch recently. I'm often of the mind that the earlier work has enjoyed the luxury of being the better work. While it may not surpass the adroitness or elegance of the debut Whispering Corridors (1998), it still imparts a heavier emotional burden than the third installment, Wishing Stairs (2003), although the latter invokes a more eerie sense of foreboding, largely due to its Faustian bargain theme composed against a perpetual dark ambiance. By contrast, Memento Mori most daringly takes stabs at a certain cultural issue among a few others, which intertwine with the daily chores of both students and teachers within the enclosure of a South Korean girls' high school, delivered in a narrative that never lets up in the enchantment component. Segments of it are rather radiant, thanks to its portray of teenage romantic theme with a lively school as the canvas, but not without its own spatters of creepiness and gloom. It is not entirely overambitious to regard it as a treatise on poetry and aesthetics. I guess the pinnacle of the series belongs to…

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