Two days ago, the Korean film "Oh! Wen Ji" was suddenly fixed in the mainland.
The whole process is very sudden, many people don't even know about it, and the theater schedule is very limited.
And for many people, until the film is officially finalized.
We really realized that it had been six years since we had seen a Korean movie in a formal theatrical film.
The last Korean film released in theaters was "Assassination" on September 17, 2015.
In a trance, this seems to be han ying in ancient times.
In the blink of an eye, it's six years.
Although, in terms of box office performance, "Oh! The box office of "Wen Ji" is not worth mentioning, and the total box office of yesterday's day was only more than 60,000 yuan.
Even his schedule is pitifully small.
However, friends who pay attention to domestic cinema movies, especially Korean movies, are very clear:
The significance of this Korean film in mainland theaters, even if the box office is not so prominent, but the significance is very important.
If you look at it only in terms of quality, Oh! "Moon Ji" is not a very prominent Korean film, and in the Korean films of these years, it is not so influential.
This is actually a slightly routine warm comedy, like many of these Korean films, it has a very fixed creative mode.
In the film, there is a group of slightly vulgar, but full of life-like little people, who are stupid and funny in various ways.
This makes the first half of the film, most of the time very happy and lively, all kinds of noise and funny. And in the second half of the film, there will be a warm main line to sublimate the theme, trying to move you and warm you.
You can say that such Korean films are very old-fashioned, but such settings are also tried and tested, after all, the audience always loves them.
Entertainment films, there are laughter and tears, there is warmth and touch, so that the audience feels worth it, and when this film was first released in South Korea, the box office performance was not bad.
In addition, the biggest star in the film is Luo Wenji, who is also an actress who is very familiar to mainland audiences, and there are many of her memes on the Internet.
She starred as the heroine Wu Wenji.
This is an old man with Alzheimer's disease, her memories are forever in the past, and at the same time, her personality is like a child.
Therefore, at the beginning of the film, she has been making laughs with various conditions brought about by the old man's illness, and she has lost her memory and caused a lot of trouble for her son and family.
In particular, Luo Wenji's excellent performance also adds a lot of color to this film, and there are some cuteness in childishness.
A sudden car accident seriously injured her granddaughter.
In order to find the hit-and-run, she and her son must start the road to murder together, in the process, she not only has to overcome the amnesia caused by Alzheimer's disease, but also uses the memory of the past to evoke her affection with her son. In this way, the emotional sublimation of the whole film is achieved.
In short, this is a warm comedy you can imagine, noisy and touching, laughing with tears.
The score of 7.2 points on Douban also basically represents the quality of this film.
You can go and see it, but it's not very good.
Or maybe this is the reason why this film was chosen as an ice-breaking work for Korean films to be released in the mainland.
On the one hand, the pattern of the film is not too big, the stars are not too many, the influence is naturally limited, and it will not cause too sensational effects. On the other hand, the theme of the film is also relatively harmless to people and animals, which can be accepted by the Chinese and Korean people, and there is also a theme of family affection and filial piety behind it. The style of the whole film is laughter and tears, there is affection and emotion, and the propaganda is positive energy, which is a very safe movie.
If you don't release her, who can you release?
So, this "Oh! Wen Ji" is coming.
In fact, in recent years, I have sporadically seen some Korean movies at domestic film festivals. However, it is always a good thing that finally there are Korean movies that can be re-registered in theater movies, and everything seems to be back on track.
After all, we've really missed out on too many Korean movies over the years.
Recall, in the six years away from the mainland theaters, what are the best works in Korean movies?
For example, "Busan Trip"
For example, "Crying"
For example, Parasite
Films like "Parasite" and "Busan Trip" have been bought by companies in China, of course, we can only see it on the Internet.
In fact, in recent years, there have been a lot of Korean films that are really very good, like the Korean film "Mogadishu" that applied for the Olympic Games before.
Or the evaluation is very good, this year's phenomenon work "Zishan Fish Recipe"
There is also the political thriller "The Ministers of Nanshan" that many people loved last year, Li Bingxian's goddom
There is also Li Cangdong's critically acclaimed "Burning" in Cannes.
And another high-scoring film by Huang Zhengmin, "Agent" which is also a political thriller
There is also the romance film "Go to See You Now" starring Su Zhixie and Sun Yizhen, which is the Korean version of "Say I Love You Through the Rain"
There is also the 2017 phenomenon-level Korean blockbuster "Walking with God: Crime and Punishment"
And many other Korean films, if you can watch one or two on the big screen, it is still very enjoyable.
Yes, in the six years since it disappeared, there have indeed been many excellent Korean movies. Even if we occasionally complain that the current Korean movies are not as good as before, there are many Korean movies worth paying attention to!
And many of these can also be seen on the big screen.
Of course, with "Oh! The theater of "Moon Ji" was officially released, and in the days to come, there will still be more Korean movies emerging to meet us in the cinema.
Recalling that the Korean films released in the mainland at the beginning were still very diverse, especially many Korean commercial blockbusters, they had the experience of being released in the mainland.
You know, at the beginning of the "Battle of Mingliang", "Treasure Hunting Alliance", "Han River Monster", "Assassination" and other Korean blockbusters, we all watched in the cinema.
And the movie, finally, still has to be in the movie theater, can be more focused, enjoy it without distraction.
Especially at present, domestic cinema films are increasingly concentrated in Chinese films. You can say that Chinese movies are growing, growing. But the choices, indeed, are less. This is not only Korean movies, but also films from other countries, and basically can't be seen several times.
Speaking of which, the recently rumored "The Matrix 4" and "Spider-Man: Heroes Without Return" have not been fixed letters, always making people very anxious, looking forward to seeing them as soon as possible.
Again, whether it is good or not is one thing, whether there is a choice or not, it is another matter.
After all, it's two things.
Well.