Kumanthong Dolls, The Guardian (2021) Storyline

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Hello everyone!

In Indonesia, there has just been a new trend, namely adopting a 'Spirit Doll' known as the Kumanthong Doll. Well, I just watched a movie that I think is interesting to watch for lovers of plot twist movies.

The Guardian 2021, a film that tells about a kumanthong doll produced in Vietnam, this time I want to tell the plot of this film. Check this out!

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The Guardian (2021)_{The Beginning}

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There is a famous singer named Puong who committed suicide in the bathtub of his house while hugging his favorite spirit doll after his sex videos spread on social media. Apparently, the case of Puong's death dragged a person named Ly, a baking vocal Puong who was suspected of being the key to the case because the evidence from the messages on his cellphone was also coming to the party that Puong attended. So the story goes, Puong is drugged, raped, and recorded by a mysterious figure wearing a mask. Well, the police interrogated and asked Ly to reveal who the person behind the mask was. However, Ly said that that night he was also sedated and doesn't remember anything from that night.

The next day, Ly comes to Puong's funeral and there he meets Puong's father who asks Ly to help the police uncover the person who raped his daughter and clear Puong's name, because his father is sure that Puong is not a naughty and criminal child. But Ly instead says that she doesn't know everything about Puong, and Ly also says that Puong is a lonely woman because her mother left her when she was little. And Ly also apologizes for not being able to help with the Puong case. Then just before going home, Ly got a call from someone who ordered him and threatened Ly to shut up about the case.

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The First Time Ly Meet Baby Na

Long story short, 6 months passed, Ly started to move on from her life and started to continue his latent obsession to become a famous singer like Puong who was actually Ly's idol from the first. Then Ly tries to enter a singing contest but unfortunately loses even though he had brought a Kumanthong doll a gift from Puong during her lifetime as a talisman for Ly's success. Instead of at the competition venue, Ly met Mrs. Tam. The same has the same kumanthong doll. Mrs. At that time Tam noticed the doll Ly which she said did not bring luck to Ly. said Mrs. Tam, Ly doll has nothing in it (spirit). Then Mrs. Tam recommends a shaman from Vietnam who is said to be able to fill a doll with a kumanthong with the spirit of a baby who was not born into the world in order to really bring good luck to Ly.

At first, Ly was hesitant to follow Mrs. Tam, but finally she went to the shaman, there Ly's soul is tied to a kumanthong doll similar to Puong's doll, which is then named Baby Na.

Luck comes one after another into Ly's life. Starting from meeting Khan, namely his fiancé and producer Puong, who turned out to be a favorite by Ly, and not only that, Khan also gave his business card so that Ly came for a vocal test to Khan's recording studio. Like a dream for Ly, she was also immediately contracted by Khan's company professionally and bred to be a star by Khan's company. Ly was also given a luxury apartment along with an assistant to look after and help Ly in the apartment.

At that time, Ly grew fond of Baby Na, until Ly made a special place for Baby Na and an altar where Ly prayed and asked Baby Na for luck. Not only that, Ly is also a member of the club chaired by Mrs. Tam and often gathers at Mrs. Tam's penthouse. Of all the guests who gathered, only Huyen (Ly's friend) felt strange and couldn't relate to the gathering.

Day by day Khan grew closer and had a special relationship with Ly, even the song that was supposed to be for Puong was given to Ly, and the song became famous and liked by the public. Ly is also increasingly popular as a star and singer. So as time goes on, Ly loves Baby Na more and more, and Ly makes Baby Na's altar bigger and adds some other kumathong dolls.

Huyen, as a friend gave advice to Ly not to get close to Khan too quickly, because Khan had only been left by Puong for 6 months, afraid that Ly was only an escape from Khan's love. But Ly didn't take Huyen's advice, because Ly was probably jealous of her closeness to Khan and all of Ly's luck.

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Puong Tragic Night

But, behind all Ly's luck there is bad luck lurking, once Ly is popular and becomes famous, masked men start to terrorize Ly and ask to come to the party they are holding. The men threaten that if Ly doesn't come to the party, Ly will end up like Puong.
In the film, from Ly's flashback, the truth is revealed that Ly is the mastermind behind Puong's tragic night. Ly invites and forces Puong to come to the party that night on the pretext that Puong will help Ly become famous if Puong accepts the invitation.

At that time, Puong failed to drink the drug that had been given him, then he was raped and recorded by the three masked men. The video became a weapon for the masked men to blackmail Puong into wanting to satisfy them but unfortunately Puong refused and finally the video was spread on social media. Then as a result of the video, Puong's reputation was destroyed and caused Puong to commit suicide.
But not only Puong's video, Ly was also recorded by a masked man and the video also threatened Ly, causing Ly to panic. At that time, Ly only threatened the masked men to reveal the identities of the three men. Unfortunately, Ly was even threatened back by the three men.

Ly then came to Mrs. penthouse. Tam asked for help, but unfortunately Mrs. Tam said that she couldn't help Ly because the german doll could only fulfill her wish and couldn't protect her from evil. The only way is with the 'Samsatyam' ritual, which is to fill Baby Na's soul with a new holy demon soul that can protect Ly from evil. After the ritual, Ly immediately displayed a photo of one of the men who threatened him on the altar of worshiping Baby Na while killing a bird for worship and asking for protection from Baby Na. But it turned out that the next day, one of the men died in a tragic way. At that time Ly was in shock because actually he only asked to be protected not to kill the men.

Ly immediately went to Mrs. Tam and said that she wanted to get rid of all the germanthong dolls in her house because she did not want to continue protecting her which resulted in a murder, but unfortunately Mrs. Tam said that if she threw away all her kumanthong dolls it would be bad because the soul of the doll's spirit Kumanthong will be furious with Ly.

Then the next day Ly was terrorized again by the masked man to satisfy their lecherous lust, at that time Ly was not only silent, he immediately put a photo of the two perpetrators on the Baby Na altar. And the next day the two perpetrators died in a pathetic condition as well.
Meanwhile, Huyen investigates Mrs. Tam's association and goes to Mrs. Tam's penthouse, it turns out that when she arrives the penthouse is empty and no one inhabits and Huyen is increasingly suspicious of Mrs. Tam's intentions. But unfortunately, after Huyen left Mrs Tam's penthouse, Huyen was hit by a car and Ly went straight to the hospital to visit Huyen. At that time Huyen told everything she saw, Ly immediately confronted Mrs. Tam and threatened to expose the deception of the association created by Mrs. Tam.

Spoiler Alert: those who don't like spoilers, watch The Guardian Movie (2021)

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Who’s Baby Na?

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At that time, Mrs. Tam said that she had just moved from the Penthouse because she needed more space. Mrs Tam also said that Baby Na had helped with all of Ly's requests and also smoothed her relationship with Khan. At that time Ly became increasingly suspicious of Mrs. Tam because Ly had never told Mrs. Tam of her relationship with Khan. Then Ly went straight home and dismantled Baby Na's altar, she let go of Baby Na's neck with his head and at that time Ly was shocked to see there was a surveillance camera and recorder. Ly thought at that time that this was the work of Mrs. Tam's cult of Kumthong dolls.

Khan came to Ly's house and at that time he told Khan the truth, but strangely at that time Khan hugged Ly tightly until Ly was short of breath. And this is where it is revealed that this is the work of Khan who is trying to uncover Puong's death in order to find the perpetrators of Puong's rapists, so that he can finally kill the perpetrators and take Puong's revenge. Khan also said that he would kill Ly as an alibi to pinpoint Ly as the perpetrator of the murder of 3 men who had been killed by Khan. Just then Ly said he wanted to do something before she died, she made a confession on a live broadcast to admit that she was the one who invited Puong that night.
But suddenly Khan immediately changed his mind not to kill Ly and let Ly feel guilty for the rest of her life with all her sins against Puong. But unfortunately, when Khan came home from Ly's apartment, Ly decided to jump off the balcony of his apartment to end his life.

When the police investigated the 3 men who raped the puong, the police found traces of Khan's blood on the victim, so Khan was arrested for murder. And it doesn't stop there, at the end of the film, it is told that Mrs. Tam is Puong's biological mother, and the shaman who fills the spirit of the kumanthong doll is Puong's uncle and the assistant who works at Ly's apartment is Puong's aunt who arranges everything about the altar from Baby Na to installing surveillance cameras on Baby Na dolls. So, it turns out that the Puong and Khan families conspire to take revenge against Puong's rapists. Finally the movie is over..

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See you next one :)

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