An action sci-fi film with an all-star cast, it is also the highest-grossing record for a Korean film in Hollywood until 2006.
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"Han River Monster" is a science fiction film directed by Bong Joon-ho and released in South Korea on July 27, 2006, starring Song Kang-ho and Bae Doona, based on the theme of a traditional Korean family facing the Monster of the Han River. [1]
It mainly tells that due to the illegal dumping of a large amount of metamorphic formaldehyde into the Han River by the US military morgue, the water quality of the Han River has been polluted and the organisms in the water have mutated.
1 Synopsis
Park Kang-doo, who is still idle in his 30s, and his father, Hee Bong, run a shop at the Takasui base on the Han River, and live a peaceful life with his younger brother Nam Il, who has not yet found a job after graduating from college, and his sister Nam Joo, who loves archery and has participated in the national team.
Until one day, monsters that eat people everywhere appeared on the embankment of the Han River, and the whole city fell into a panic. Gang Doo's junior high school daughter Park Hyun-seok is kidnapped by monsters, and the family seeks help from the police and hospital, but is treated as a psychopath.
Since then, Jiang Dou and his family have fought with the monster to save Xianrui.
2 Behind the scenes
According to director Bong Joon-ho, he was shocked that he had actually seen an unknown creature on the Han River 18 years ago. From that time on, he thought that if he became a director in the future, he must bring this experience to the screen. After 18 years, Bong Joon-ho finally realized this dream and put "Monster" on the screen.
At the same time, the film's cast is also particularly strong. There are the Big Bell Award Film Emperor Song Kang-ho, the increasing popularity of Bae Doona, and the "pollution-free boy" Park Hae-il and so on.
Although Bong Joon-ho's works are not many, he has a good reputation. But "Monster" is still a big challenge for him. In order to create a believable monster, he spent a long time conceiving a series of ideas about the "monster".
Including, imagine how monsters survive, how they move, how they eat, how they defecate, etc. As an important filming location on the Han River, Bong Joon-ho also made great efforts.
3 Tencent Entertainment Review
"Monsters of the Han River" depicts that there are extremely terrifying aliens hidden in the Han River, and in addition to killing people, they also spread viruses. Although the shooting method of the classic sci-fi horror film "Alien" was referred to before shooting, Bong Joon-ho stressed that he had no intention of comparing it with similar Thrillers in Hollywood, saying that "Monsters of the Han River" added a lot of Korean cultural characteristics and was very oriental.
The addition of Hollywood's special effects technology makes "Monster of the Han River" have wonderful visual effects, and the texture and realism are not inferior to any Hollywood blockbuster.
4 Shenzhen Evening News review
"The Monster of the Han River" tells the story of human beings fighting with mutated monsters to the death, but unlike Hollywood blockbusters, the heroes who defeated the big monsters this time are neither "Superman", nor SWAT officers, nor scientists, but a group of unarmed little people.
The film is full of intelligent black humor, sharp and spicy irony and warm family affection, so evocative that the film is no less than the thriller of Hollywood monster blockbusters, but it seems that the director inadvertently wrote a stroke of god.
5 Douban netizens hot comments
This monster is power and American culture, and you can see his strong anti-American sentiment in all of Bong Joon-ho's films. At a time when the entire Asian culture has become weak, Bong Joon-ho is still swimming against the current of Western culture, waving the flag sadly for local culture.
This is not a monster film, this is a political metaphor for the red fruit, and the government is the monster.
South Korea's filming this kind of film is always full of warmth and funny, the plot is still relatively compact, that is, the prelude is slightly longer, more gripping.
It should be said that this is a sci-fi thriller movie with a unique strong cultural attribute, not a Hollywood-style popcorn blockbuster. Although it looks more like a thriller story with family emotions running through it.
But in fact, it has nothing to do with these things, you will only see the expression that belongs to Bong Joon-ho in the camera and music, so if there are really monsters in this movie, it must be the director Bong Joon-ho himself.