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Today I'll show you a thriller-horror film: "Double Vision"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with a pregnant woman moaning in pain, while she's lying on the operating table
The doctors all act with urgency, as they try to save the baby and the mother
The head surgeon slices the mother's womb and extricates the baby
Unfortunately, the fetus is stillborn;
and a nurse quickly picks it up and sets the tiny body to the side
Right then, the machines start beeping;
and the doctors turn their attention to the mother, who's hovering between life and death
In the chaos of it all,
they don't notice one of the baby's eyes slowly open, revealing a double pupil
It's a slow night at the precinct
Foreign Affairs Officer, short-named Detective,
busies himself by playing chess, while his fellow policemen have fun around him
when he's brushing his teeth in the restroom, the police captain comes up to him
He's not kind to Detective at all
He even mocks him for spending his nights at the station,
and not paying attention to his wife and child
The next morning, a secretary knocks at her boss' office door
She finds his cold body slumped on his chair, a heavy coat wrapped around him
The secretary wastes no time reporting her boss' death to the police
The captain arrives at the office, with a female crime scene coroner and another officer
He immediately notices that the office's air conditioning is not turned on,
despite the ongoing heatwave
The secretary explains that her boss had been feeling uncharacteristically cold all morning,
and had ordered her to turn up the heat
This also explains why the boss was found wearing a coat
The officer informs the captain that the dead man was the chairman of a chemical company,
which was recently under controversy for dumping toxic waste in the river
The crime scene coroner reports that it seems like the boss had been drowned to death
But what's confusing is that no one had seen the boss leave the office that morning,
nor did they see anyone else enter the office
Detective's wife comes by his office with their young daughter
He's been so busy with work lately,
that he didn't even know that a classmate had shot his daughter with a pellet gun last week
His wife is acting coldly towards him; and their marriage is on the verge of breaking down
She tells him their daughter's teachers have requested a meeting,
and Detective has to be the one to attend the meeting
The coroner examines the boss' body and discovers that
the outer and inner layers of his skin have been frozen
She probes deeper and finds a mysterious fungus inside the body
Still, the cause of death is decided to be drowning
As for the mysterious fungus,
she tells the captain that Taiwan's technology is too primitive
to determine the origin of the specimen
To know more, they'd have to ask the Americans for help
Soon after, they send a representative all the way to the FBI headquarters in Virginia,
to consult with a renowned serial killer profiler
He catches the profiler in the middle of a lecture
He's sharing with the audience how he had come up with a profile to catch a serial killer,
who was preying on young runaway boys
Meanwhile, an elegant and beautiful lady arrives at her chic apartment
She sets down a newspaper,
with a headline proclaiming that a senator had been sued by his wife for adultery on the couch
The lady soaks in the tub and relaxes
While she's in the bathroom, the newspaper catches on fire;
and the flames quickly spread throughout the apartment
She wraps herself in a towel, and steps outside, immediately seeing the roaring fire
Panicking, the lady tries to call the fire department
She then tries to get out of the door but is met by even more flames
When the officer gets to the lady's apartment, it looks like nothing happened
The couch is still intact, and there are no signs of a fire at all
The officer notices the newspaper that is still on the couch
He identifies the lady as the senator's mistress,
recently out on bail after being sued by the senator's wife
The fire department had hurried to her apartment after getting the lady's call,
but had found no fire, just her dead body lying on the floor in a fetal position
The coroner examines the body and finds another mystery
The lady's body is showing signs that she was extremely burned
The same mysterious fungus was also found inside her body
She hypothesizes that the lady and the boss' deaths are connected
However, the chief of police is not happy,
because he wants the cases to be closed quickly and cleanly,
especially since the latest one involves a politician
He orders the coroner to rule the lady's cause of death as a heart attack
Detective heads to his daughter's school for the meeting with her teacher
He learns that the daughter has been fighting with two of her classmates,
resulting in an injury and her hair being cut off
The teacher gently suggests that Detective enroll the daughter in a special school
He takes the daughter to the hospital for treatment
The doctor asks him if she is taking her medication regularly;
but Detective does not know the answer, because he hasn't been spending much time with her recently
Left alone, the daughter wanders around the hospital
She goes inside a laboratory, and sees a fetus preserved inside a jar
The fetus has an eye with a double pupil
Elsewhere in the city, a foreign priest inside a church screams
There's a gaping bleeding hole in the middle of his chest
The captain calls Detective to the church
Detective is puzzled as to why he's being assigned there,
since he's no longer working on homicide cases
The captain explains that since he's now a Foreign Affairs Officer,
he should be handling the investigation on a foreigner who died
The priest was found disemboweled in his bed
There are talismans written in blood on his body
The coroner shows them a bowl, filled with the priest's intestinal fat
She also shows them a cotton swab filled with dark mold, taken from the priest's nasal cavity
This means that the three mysterious deaths are connected, because of the strange fungus
The Taiwanese police department finally gives in to the pressure,
and accepts the help of the FBI in solving the mysterious deaths
Soon after, the profiler from the FBI arrives at the airport, and is bombarded by the press
The next day,
Detective introduces the profiler to the rest of the police officers working on the case
He explains to the profiler that they need his help to analyze how the three victims are connected,
and how the mysterious fungus is found inside their brains
The profiler comments that they need to find how the serial killer is choosing the victims
Since the others cannot understand English, Detective acts as the translator
The profiler suggests that they consult a Taoist expert regarding the talismans
Sadly, the other police officers do not respect the profiler; and they all jeer and laugh at him
The profiler expresses his desire to check out the crime scene at the church;
but the officer dismisses him, saying that they already had combed over every inch of the scene
But the profiler insists that he sees the crime scene with his own eyes
On the way to the church, Detective advises the profiler not to cause too much trouble,
since he's a foreigner in Taiwan
The profiler replies by saying that
Detective's reputation doesn't really send the message that he stays out of trouble
He shows Detective the newspaper clipping he read about him
The profiler adds that the article was the reason
why the FBI recommended Detective to be his partner
The FBI does not trust the corrupt Taiwanese police force;
and they see Detective as different from the rest, because of his brave action
But Detective regrets the choice he had made
He tells the profiler that he's just like all the other policemen
A flashback reveals that Detective had tried to expose the corruption in the force
This resulted in him being the center of a media storm
But in the end, he just got humiliated and demoted to the Foreign Affairs department
This is why the other policemen do not like Detective
Later, the two arrive at the church
The profiler inspects the old air conditioner, and opens it up
He asks Detective if the other crime scenes had air conditioners too
He plucks a gray pellet out of the air conditioner filter
The other two crime scenes are searched; and sure enough, the police find pellets too
The lab tech determines that through advanced technology,
the killer inserted the mold inside the pellets,
and fired them through an air rifle to the air conditioner vents
The mold dissipates in the air, and is inhaled by the victims
This is why the fungus is found inside their brains and nasal cavities
Detective shares with the captain that
he believes the killer is finding his victims through the newspapers
The boss was in the news because of toxic waste dumping,
while the lady was in the article for being a mistress
The captain also warns him not to trust the profiler or the FBI
The profiler visits Detective's office, and meets his wife and daughter
He discovers that the daughter hasn't spoken in two years ever since the incident
Detective arrives shortly after, and the wife hands him the divorce papers
She had wanted to end their marriage for a long time; but Detective kept dragging his feet
Detective and the profiler later visit an expert on Taoism
They show him the talisman, written in blood on the body of the priest
The expert says that the markings are similar to the words carved in stone in a Taoist temple,
which was unearthed a few years ago in China
The words are said to be a death curse from the king of hell
He also elaborates that a mysterious diagram carved into the stone was also found,
but has not been decoded yet
Meanwhile, two burly men carry a body wrapped in plastic, and stow it in the trunk of a car
That night, Detective studies the mysterious diagrams
He shrewdly discovers that the names of the first two victims are written in the diagram
The priest's name is not in there; but the Chinese word for Christianity is
The two deduce that the killer is using the diagram as a guide for his murder spree
The FBI reports that the fungus is unlike anything they've ever seen before
It contains mites that carry the fungus through the nasal passages, and to the brain
Once it enters the bloodstream, it causes an extreme chemical reaction,
that makes the victims hallucinate and die finally
Later, the captain and Detective investigate the crime scene of a fourth victim
He was a young boy, whose parents committed suicide recently
His body was wrapped in plastic, and his heart was gone
They find a piece of styrofoam inside the car where the body was
The two get dinner together
Detective reveals what happened in the accident two years ago
His own cousin, who was also in the police force,
was caught on corruption charges and sentenced to jail
Desperate, he held Detective's daughter hostage
He fired the gun at her head; but the bullet just grazed her skull, and ricocheted at him
The cousin died and the daughter survived, although she hasn't spoken ever since that day
Detective visits the expert once again, to show him the crime scene photos
The expert realizes the killer's endgame
He explains that there's a branch of Taoism,
who believes that in order to garner immortality, one must pass through the five levels of hell:
cold, fire, disembowelment, heart extraction, and tongue removal
It seems that the killer is now arranging the murders to each reflect a different level of hell;
and the killer has already passed through the four levels of hell, with the four murder cases
The expert further tells the legend of a spirit hunter in ancient China,
who had reportedly killed many half-human, half-spirits, so he could attain immortality
He had double pupils, which gave him the ability to see the spirit world
Finally, the expert surmised that whoever the killer is,
must be gravely ill because Taoism requires grave illness,
before one can be awakened and be immortal
The profiler traces the styrofoam to a high-tech industry
They research further, and find two owners of an electric company, who became Taoist fanatics
They even paid for a Taoist temple in China to be relocated inside their building
The captain and his team raid the electric company's building
On the top floor is the temple, preserved in its ancient glory
Inside, they discover that the two company owners had formed a cult of Taoist fanatics
An altercation is started by the cultists, and they attack the policemen with blades
The ensuing massacre results in the deaths of so many people
Luckily, more police arrive; and they arrest the remaining owner
The captain barely makes it out alive, and is taken to the hospital for his injuries
The profiler explores the temple; and he discovers a hidden chamber
Inside is an injured little girl
The owner confesses to the murder
At the hospital, Detective finds out the little girl has a serious medical condition,
and the skin of her belly was peeled off, and used to cultivate the fungus that killed the victims
To celebrate the case being closed, Detective and his family have dinner together with the profiler
Everyone seems to be in good spirits, and it seems like Detective's family might be healing
Later that night, the profiler and Detective fall asleep in the living room
The next morning, Detective tries to wake the profiler up
To his horror, the profiler had ripped his own tongue out, and died during the night
The police arrive
Detective is distraught about his partner's death
The coroner finds fungus in the profiler's nasal cavity
At that moment, Detective coughs, and discovers that the same fungus is also in his nasal cavity
Fortunately, the officer is able to restrain him, just as his hallucinations start
They restrain Detective, and get him to the hospital just in time
He wakes up hours later with a clear realization:
the company owners were not the masterminds of the murders
He thinks about what the expert said about the killer,
having to have a serious illness for him to achieve immortality
Then he realizes that the little girl they found in the chamber,
has a serious medical condition too
It runs out, she managed to build a cult of fanatics that believed in Taoism,
and ordered them to find out and murder the chosen victims; so she can achieve immortality
To do so, she first converted the company owners to her ideology,
and then used their company's technology to kill the victims with the fungus
She used the names in the diagram carved in stone,
to find out the chosen five victims in the newspaper
Apparently, the profiler's death was part of the fifth hell: tongue extraction,
indicating that the seriously-sick girl has accomplished her path through all the five levels of hell
With his shocking findings, Detective races to the girl's hospital room,
and finds out that she has disappeared
He heads to the electric company's building, and sees the girl inside the temple
As he steps inside, a flurry of fungus rains down on him, causing him to hallucinate
He sees the girl floating down from the ceiling, bathed in white light
She has double pupils like the spirit hunter in the legend
The girl makes him endure a series of hallucinations, that involve him reliving the hostage incident
His daughter and his wife are there, and spewing hurtful words at him
But Detective overcomes the hallucinations, and manages to shoot the girl
He takes her to the hospital
The bullet just grazed her skull
The doctor explains that 17 years ago, her mother had given birth to twins
One was stillborn and had double pupils in one eye
The alive twin grew up lonely, and was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor
She then began to be delusional,
and came to realize that her twin sister had already achieved immortality before birth;
that's why the twin sister was stillborn
Detective comes home, and sees that his wife is scared of him because of the profiler's death
She had already signed the divorce papers
The wife goes to the daughter's bedroom and scolds her
When he steps forward to stop the wife, she turns into the girl in an instant
The girl grabs his daughter, and holds her at knifepoint
Suddenly, he realizes that his hallucination is not over;
and he's still stuck in the temple with the girl
He is forced to shoot her thrice; and she dies
Her last words are that she has to go; and Detective will come with her too, as was destined
As part of the prophecy,
Detective was destined to help the girl fulfill her murderous quest and achieve immortality
This explains why Detective was hallucinated and forced to kill the girl,
and also explains why Detective and his daughter were protected from death many times,
including the ricocheted bullet shot and car crash
At last, Detective crumples to the floor beside the girl, fulfilling their intertwined destinies
The police arrive and find Detective and the girl dead
His wife and daughter arrive; and the wife desperately tries to wake him up
The daughter cries beside his body;
and the movie ends with Detective coming back to life,
who seems to give up his destined journey to immortality, and chooses to stay in the mortal world
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