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The Eye is an English-language remake of the 2002 Chinese film Gin gwai, which was based on a screenplay by Chinese twin-brother screenwriters and directors, Danny Pang Fat and Oxide Pang Chun. The Pang brothers' script was adapted for this American remake by Venezuelan screenwriter Sebastian Gutierrez.

"There was a liver transplantation in Kentucky last year," says Sydney, "she almost immediately felt the urge to take up smoking ...."

"The donor was a chain smoker?" Dr. Paul Faulkner asks.

"Down to the same brand," Sydney Wells answers.

This clip "The Eye: Cellular Memory" contains further recaps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAgkZIhXGD8

That's cellular memory, the hypothesis that such things as memories, habits, interests, and senses may somehow be stored in all the cells of human bodies, not only in the brain. Dr. Paul Faulkner states further that Peptides are responsible for the way the mind and body communicate with each other. That's how Sydney picks up the senses allowing her not just seeing, but also hearing, the ghosts. So basically she would still have seen and heard the ghosts if she had a different organ transplanted from the same donor.

Yes she did.