Even though as a guy it takes an effort to warm up to the setting of a girls' ballet school, the story is very good and makes the film really worthwhile. Oh one thing I found strange, was that the mentally-handicapped student, Hae-Ju could be present at the school at all. The idea of of a mentally handicapped student being enrolled in an elite and highly-competitive ballet school isn't plausible?? Otherwise good acting and a slow paced creepy movie.