It’s been a long time since I recommended a heavy-flavored movie to you. Do you miss the dirty little bitch
Over the weekend, a Korean movie hit the circle of friends. This is Korea's first zombie movie - "Train to Busan"
"Train to Busan" was released in South Korea on July 20. As of September 4, the number of moviegoers in South Korea reached 11.53 million. As of last weekend, the global box office reached 99 million US dollars, becoming one of the few "10 million movies" in South Korea. Prior to this, the box office records broken by "Train to Busan" in South Korea include: Number of moviegoers on premiere days in Korea over the years Number of moviegoers at the opening of Korean movies over the years Number of moviegoers at the opening of Korean movies over the years Number of moviegoers at the opening of Korean movies over the years Number of openings for disaster movies over the years Number of moviegoers at the box office over the years
In addition to being a box office hit, this movie also has a good reputation, with a Douban score of 8.3, which is better than 96% of disaster movies and 95% of thrillers
The Rotten Tomatoes freshness score also reached 93%, which is especially difficult in Hollywood, which is used to watching zombie movies
In Hong Kong, this movie is translated as "Zombie Train", while in Taiwan it is translated as "Zombie Train". Obviously, this is a movie that mainly tells the story of zombies on the train.
Regarding zombie movies, when we were young, we may have been immersed in the shadow of Lin Zhengying’s zombie movies
Nowadays, there are a series of bad zombie movies in Hollywood, such as "28 Weeks Later"
"World War Z" starring Brad Pitt
"Shaun of the Dead" was crippled by Simon Pegg
And "Warm Corpse" which adopts a literary style
However, most European and American zombie movies are based on open spaces, and the protagonists have to find confined spaces in order to avoid zombies. "Train to Busan" directly sets the story on a closed high-speed train. "You want to survive on the high-speed train" became the slogan before the movie was released!
The story of "Train to Busan" is very simple. A mysterious virus outbreak breaks out, from animals to humans, and the emergence of zombies puts the entire South Korea into a state of emergency!
At this moment, a group of people taking a train from Seoul to Busan did not know the danger was coming. Seok Woo, played by Gong Yoo, lives with his daughter Xiu An after divorce. This trip to Busan is to fulfill my daughter’s wish to see her mother
Ma Dong-seok and Jung Yoo-mi play a couple. The husband takes his pregnant wife back to Busan to wait for the birth
Cui Woo-sik and Ahn So-hee play a pair of vague lovers on the baseball team
What this group of people have to face are zombies that mutate rapidly and are constantly infected. In this regard, Korean filmmakers have fully demonstrated their makeup skills. In terms of visual presentation, Eastern zombies seem to be no different from Hollywood zombies. The first zombie on the train, although he tried to save himself, eventually turned into a zombie
The flight attendant turned into a zombie, the before and after comparison is also shocking
The zombie group ridiculed by netizens as the "Spring Festival Transport Scene"...
In a closed space like the train, zombies and humans are playing a battle royale game. The number of humans is decreasing, while the number of zombies seems to be increasing
But looking at the whole movie, when Koreans make zombie movies, their ambition is not just to show the visual spectacle of zombies. Discover the humanity behind the disaster,Social issues are the purpose of this "Train to Busan"! What sacrifices can a father make for his children?
In order to survive for his wife and children, how selfless can a simple and honest middle-aged man be?
If you can't live alone, how will you say goodbye to your lover?
The most important thing is, when the outside power disappears and faced with disaster, how disgusting will human selfishness and greed become?
"Train to Busan" continues the critical spirit of Korean films on society in recent years. Although it is not as thrilling as "The Furnace" and does not dig into the depth of human nature as "Dark Sun", wrapped in the theme of zombies, it completes the expression of the perfect narrative of a Korean film
At the end of the film, when the pregnant woman took Xiu An through the tunnel and entered the safe isolation area, the soldiers ambushing on the other side of the tunnel could not confirm whether the two were infected. But the superior's order was to shoot the two of them! ! !
At this time, Xiu An sang the song she originally wanted to sing to her father, and saved herself with her singing. Seeing that the dark clouds had covered the top of the mountain, the moment of separation was approaching. Looking forward to seeing each other again and saying goodbye to each other before leaving. See you again when the flowers bloom. Aloha OE Aloha OE until the day we meet again
Perhaps, in the end, this paragraph is what Director Yeon Sang-ho, who has a background in making animated films, wants to express: Sometimes, you place your hope in a strong backing, but this backing may kill you!
Yeon Sang-ho, who was born in 1978, has been making animated films before. His first animated feature film "The King of Pigs" won three awards at the Busan International Film Festival, but it was not until "Train to Busan" that the Korean film industry began to pay attention to this "new director"
In May this year, "Train to Busan" was screened in the midnight section of the Cannes International Film Festival. After the screening, the audience stood up and applauded for four minutes
It is also worth mentioning that child star Kim Soo-an showed incredible acting skills in this movie, which is reminiscent of Kim Hwan-hee in "The Cry".
When "Train to Busan" was a hit at the box office, the "prequel" animated film "Seoul Station", also directed by Yeon Sang-ho, was also released in South Korea last month, although it was not as popular as the live-action film at the box office. But this form of live-action and animated prequels can also be regarded as an innovation in Korean movies
