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At the weekend, a Korean movie brushed the circle of friends, which is the first zombie movie in South Korea - "Busan Trip"
Released in South Korea on July 20, Busan Trip has seen 11.53 million viewers in South Korea as of September 4 and $99 million worldwide as of the end of last week, making it one of the few "tens of millions of movies" in South Korea. Prior to this, the box office records broken by "Busan Trip" in South Korea include: South Korea's premiere day movie attendance In the past year, Korean movie opening and movie viewing numbers In July, the number of movies released in July, the number of movies opened in july
In addition to the box office explosion, the film's reputation is also good, douban rating 8.3, better than 96% of disaster films, 95% of thrillers
Rotten Tomatoes also has a freshness rating of 93 percent, a feat that is especially difficult in Hollywood, which is accustomed to watching zombie movies
In Hong Kong, the film is translated as "Corpse Killing Train" and the Taiwanese translation is "Corpse Speed Train", which is obviously a movie that mainly tells the story of zombies that happen on the train.
Regarding zombie movies, when we were young, we may have been immersed in the shadow of Lin Zhengying's zombie movies
Today, it's a series of Hollywood zombie movies that have been played badly, such as "28 Weeks of Shock"
Brad Pitt starred in Zombie World Wars
Shaun the Zombie, crippled by Simon Peggy
And the literary and artistic style of "Warm Corpse"
However, most of the European and American zombie films are mainly open spaces, and the protagonists have to find a confined space in order to avoid zombies. And "Busan Trip", the story is directly set on the closed high-speed train, "want to live to ride the high-speed rail" became the slogan before the release of the movie!
The story of "Busan Trip" is very simple A mysterious virus outbreak, from animal infections to humans, the appearance of zombies has put the whole of Korea in a state of emergency!
At this moment, a group of people who were traveling by train from Seoul to Busan did not know the danger was coming. Shi Yu, played by Kong You, lives with his daughter Xiu'an after divorce. This trip to Busan is to fulfill her daughter's wish to see her mother
Ma Dong-seok and Jung You-mi play a couple whose husband takes his pregnant wife back to Busan to give birth
Choi Woo-sik and Ahn Joo-hee play a pair of obscure lovers of a baseball team
This group of people has to face zombies that are rapidly mutating and constantly infecting. In this regard, Korean filmmakers have fully demonstrated their makeup skills, and from the perspective of visual presentation, the oriental zombies seem to have not been much different from the hollywood zombies The first zombie on the train, although trying to save himself, eventually turned into a zombie
The flight attendants become zombies, and the comparison between before and after is also shocking
The zombie group that was ridiculed by netizens as the "Spring Festival scene" ...
In such an enclosed space as the train, zombies and humans play a battle royale game, the number of humans is decreasing, and the number of zombies seems to be increasing
But throughout the movie, when Koreans make zombie movies, their ambitions are not just to show the visual spectacle of zombies. Excavating the human nature and social problems behind the disaster is the purpose of this "Busan Trip"! What kind of sacrifices can a father make for the sake of his own children?
For the sake of his wife and children to live, how selfless is the middle-aged man who is thick?
If you can't live alone, how will you say goodbye to your lover?
Most importantly, when the external forces disappear, in the face of disaster, how disgusting will human selfishness and greed be?
"Busan Trip" continues the critical spirit of Korean films on society in recent years, although it is not as shocking as "The Melting Pot", nor does it have the deep excavation of human nature in "Miyang", but under the wrapping of the zombie theme, it completes the expression of a perfect narrative of a Korean film
At the end of the film, when the pregnant woman takes Xiu'an through the tunnel into the safe quarantine area, the soldiers lying on the other side of the tunnel cannot confirm whether the two are infected. The superior's order turned out to be to shoot the two men to death!!!
At this time, XiuAn sang the song that she originally wanted to sing to her father, and saved herself with her song to see that the dark clouds had covered the mountaintop and the parting moment was approaching, looking forward to meeting each other again after saying goodbye to each other and leaving the blossom season to see each other again, Aloha OE Aloha OE until the day of seeing each other again
Perhaps, in the end, this paragraph is what director Yan Shanghao, who came from an animated film background, wants to express: Sometimes, you hope for a strong backing, but this backing may cost you your life!
Born in 1978, Yeon Sang-ho had been shooting animated films before, and his first animated feature film", "The King of pigs", won three awards at the Busan International Film Festival, but it was not until "Busan Trip" that the Korean film industry began to pay attention to this "newcomer director"
In May this year, "Busan Trip" was screened at midnight at the Cannes International Film Festival, and after the screening, the audience stood up and applauded for four minutes
It is also worth mentioning that child star Kim So-an showed incredible acting skills in this movie, reminiscent of Kim Hwan-hee in "Crying".
When "Busan Trip" sold well 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 box office. But this form of live-action with animated prequel is also an innovation in Korean cinema
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