Korean movies are not unfamiliar to everyone, and realistically speaking, the overall quality of Korean movies is relatively high. In particular, the recent "Busan Trip" and "Tunnel" are a strong impact on Chinese audiences, and in fact, there is another Korean film in 2016 that should not be underestimated, but it may be because the story's expression method is more different, but Chinese audiences inadvertently ignore it. This is "My Savage Girlfriend" director Guo Jae-yong directed, And the main Korean film "Time Breaker" such as Lim So-kyung, Lee Jin-wook, and Cho Jeong-seok.
Released in South Korea on April 13, 2016, Time Breakers has been shown 10,530 times on 733 screens in just one week, with 336,129 weekend viewers and 546,727 viewers. Before its release, it was the most anticipated by the audience with a pre-sale rate of 26.1%, and after its release, it also surpassed other films in the same period in terms of value, and the final number of viewers reached one million.
However, why such a film that has achieved impressive box office results in South Korea is rarely recommended by the media in China, mainly because the film is too brain-burning, whether it is a shooting method or a plot display, it is particularly brain-burning, and anyone who is not serious or has the slightest lack of seriousness in watching the movie or is interrupted in the middle of the movie may be able to see the story that follows.
The story spans 30 years, with 2015 and 1983 as the background of the story, telling the thrilling pursuit of two men who lived in 1983 and 2015 but were able to see each other through dreams in order to save their loved ones and prevent crimes. Lin Xiujing played two roles in the film, namely "Yun Zhen" in 1983 and "Su En" in 2015, who were also two people brutally killed by the murderer. In the film, Cho Jeong-seok plays Ji-hwan, a music teacher who lives in 1983, and is a lover with Yoon-jeong. Lee Jin-wook plays the role of criminal police officer "Jianyu", with rapid judgment and reaction, calm and meticulous personality and strong tracking ability.
Strictly speaking, this is actually a murder film, a detective film, a reasoning film, telling the story of how Lee Jin-wook and Cao Zhengxi connected the mystery case with a time span of 30 years through the time cycle, and finally the truth was revealed and the murderer was punished. The storyline seems to be very simple, but the director has opened his mind to use a shooting method different from the same genre to portray this originally seemingly bland story full of suspense and horror.
In this film, Guo Zairong combines suspense and dreams, using a two-line parallel narrative technique, so that the two protagonists in 2015, Jianyu, a police officer, and Zhihuan, a teacher in 1983, are linked through dreams, forming an intersection in parallel time and space, and thus producing a butterfly effect, after several "corrections", all the people who died in vain have gained new vitality, and the hero and heroine have also ushered in a fairytale-like ending - all the strange images are finally fixed in the past and present lives of love.
The reason why the film is strongly brain-burning is not just to say that the story content spans a large span and the plot branch is complex, but the whole film in addition to the use of subtitles at the beginning of the film to prompt the audience of two scenes of the same New Year corresponds to 2015 and 1983 respectively, after that there is no longer any subtitle prompt of the era, but the use of the film color change in the way of time and space interlacing, the audience to know whether the scene is 2015 or 1983, can only be determined through the film color and the actors who appeared on the camera.
Not only that, because the director uses a two-line parallel telling story, the scene changes very quickly, and the combination of telepathy and dream between two people in different eras is also an instantaneous change, which is indeed not a general brain-burning for many unnerving audiences who are accustomed to prompting locations and eras according to subtitles.
To tell the truth, Guo Zairong is a full-fledged detail control, the details are in place, the lens language is delicate and exquisite, for example, the two rare first snows in September in the film, it cleverly connects the past tense and the present tense seamlessly, at the same time, the overall rhythm of the film is properly controlled, the suspense is stacked, there is no sense of procrastination, step by step, the plot development is both logical and reasonable accidents, especially the time node shots of different eras in the film, with the protagonist's expression changing, directly triggering the audience's heartbeat to accelerate, In the end, it turned around, giving people unexpected surprises.
The end of the film also makes people burst into tears, forgive me for not being able to spoil.