2020 is approaching the end, I did not expect that Korean movies are full of momentum, repeated bombing -
"Telephone" with a word of mouth exploded.
Although it is not a theatrical film, the quality is also leveraged, a phone call across time and space, and a game of torture that cannot be escaped.
The setting of this time and space reversal immediately has the taste of "Butterfly Effect" + "Mirage" + "Overtime Call".
There are stimulus and there are warm ones.
The annual tear-jerking work "Guarantee" tells a story of evil caused by debt collection.
To tell the truth, Uncle Cheng Dongri is the guarantee of quality, and he is still hesitating about anything, a word "look"!
Loyal fans who watch the factory director every day should know that these two have been pushed before, but there is also a big guy missing.
It overpowered "Guarantee" and "Silent", and won the top spot in the Korean box office for more than ten consecutive days, which can be called the biggest dark horse this year.
It's just --
"Sanzhen Group English TOEIC Class"
Frankly speaking, watching the title of the film is really not the director's dish.
Even though it exceeded one million views during the epidemic in South Korea, it received unanimous praise, scoring 8.4 on the Korean local website NAVER and receiving 4 nominations at the Blue Dragon Awards.
only...... Intuitively, I think it's boring.
Fortunately, when I saw the first few hot reviews, I quickly went to download it.
As a result, minutes are punched in the face!
Needless to say, not only is it not stuffy, but it also looks good, full of blood, and finally a little touching.
Surprisingly, the three female protagonists in it are brighter than one, and each of them holds a heavyweight acting award or nomination.
There is a child star debut, starring in the 9.0 divine drama "Life on Mars" elegant star;
There is Park Hye-so, who has a sweet voice and appearance, came from a talent show, and now has a place in the show business circle;
There is also Li Xu, who is a model.
She starred in the erotic film "Mrs. Brave" with the film emperor Zheng Yusheng at the age of 24, and with her soul-catching eyes and natural and flexible interpretation, she became famous and was recognized by the industry.
As the saying goes, three women in one play, this lineup is wonderful to think about.
As it turns out, it is —
The film is set in 1995, when South Korea's economy was in full swing and ranked among the "Four Asian Tigers", which made the people full of passion and enthusiasm.
At the same time, then-President Kim Young-sam proposed to keep up with "globalization."
Therefore, in order to be in line with international standards, many leading enterprises have begun to take the lead in reform.
Take, for example, the chaebol Sanzhen Group in the film, which first hired an experienced foreign president to reform the old system of the family business.
In order to make the company more competitive in the world and attract foreign investment.
Then, employees were called upon to learn English, toil classes, and to develop reward and punishment mechanisms.
If the final score of the TOEIC test is 600, it will be able to promote the position, which makes the eyes of a large number of female employees who have graduated from high school shine.
Why?
Because although Korean women at that time had gradually left their families and entered the society, discrimination at work was everywhere.
Many times, they can only do the most "low-level" work in the department, making coffee and printing documents, and once pregnant, they will be immediately said goodbye.
And in the process of learning in the TOEIC class, three girls from different departments made big things together...
Li Ziying, Production Management Department.
The head is bright and turns quickly, it is the "think tank" in the department, and all colleagues cannot do without her.
But it is not a big thing that shocks the world, but a small thing such as where the files are placed, why the computer jams the machine, and so on.
As a good person, Li Ziying accepted everything according to the order and endured.
Zheng Youna, Sales Department.
Because of her sexy and graceful figure and love of fashion, she is a beautiful landscape of the company.
Beautiful people will always be contaminated with some "obscurity", which is not, there are colleagues who insult her in front of her, saying that her relationship with the leadership is not clean.
This person also stole Zheng Youna's creative plan during the meeting.
However, she has a low education and has no right to speak, so she can only suppress her inner resentment and continue to do things.
Shen Baolan is a clerk in the Finance Department.
Compared to the first two, she is much gentler and more obedient.
Day after day, even she herself almost forgot that she was once an Olympic champion, had great ambitions, wanted to reform the financial system, invent a machine for drying clothes...
However, after being beaten up in the workplace, it is very satisfying to be busy playing a game.
It can be said that three small characters with different personalities, coupled with a nostalgic painting style full of the 90s, and an exaggerated performance form, are humorous and funny, instantly reminiscent of "Chinese Partner".
Some have even called it a "feminist" movie.
Because there will be female staff in the follow-up for promotion, fight the bridge section.
However, if you continue to look down, you will find that this road is quite wild.
The conflict stemmed from Li Ziying's field work at the group's factory in the suburbs, where she was surprised to find that the factory discharged untreated sewage.
Where the water flows, there are dead fish everywhere.
The terrible thing is that water is the source of life, and perhaps nearby villages will be affected.
Is the incinerator broken and discharged by mistake?
Or did the factory knowingly commit illegal emissions?
Li Ziying lit a raging fire of justice in her heart and boldly submitted an investigation application to the section chief.
In response to this, the chief of the section is also very sharp.
He quickly arranged for a third-party agency to go to the sampling, fortunately, the test results showed that the phenol content was a little higher, basically no health hindrance.
Li Ziying and her juniors took the report, the agreement, went door to door in the village to explain, and signed the relevant agreement.
however......
Unexpectedly, the so-called report was nothing more than a hoax.
The copy was fake and the provenance was unknown, while the true report was destroyed and even the original one was encrypted.
Who will be in charge of all this?
And this secret is jointly revealed by the three heroines.
Good guys, the bottom of the small people bravely fight the chaebol black curtain, at first glance there is the smell of "Blackwater".
It's just that compared to the seriousness and depression of the former, this film is relaxed, and there are many middle two.
The process of revealing the darkness is full of twists and turns, and the suspense is funny.
For example, everyone looks at it from the surface and does not know, so the object of suspicion ranges from the section chief, to the minister, to the young master and executive director of the group, and then to the father of the big boss executive.
As for the forensic process, it is called a thrill.
They sometimes act as agents, listen to phone calls, follow up, lurk in rooms, open safes, disguise themselves, risk being discovered all the time, and keep getting closer to the truth.
Finally, the real black hand eliminated all the above suspects, and it turned out to be a gentleman-looking, pollution-free foreign president.
And he chose to conceal the factory pollution and let the villagers get sick, not out of consideration for the group, but for other purposes.
This purpose is enough to destroy the entire group.
To tell the truth, the story of this ant against the giant is inspirational and bloody.
However, due to the exaggerated form of the film's comedy, it also caused discomfort to some viewers, thinking that it was too dramatic, too outrageous, and had a sensational component.
Whether or not to use too much force, everyone has a different perception.
But the reason why it impressed the director was because it did not fall into the same type of clichés as before, and dug the theme deeper.
In addition to speaking up for women and talking about the escalation of workplace monster killing, the film itself is very healing.
In fact, regardless of gender, the three female protagonists are like thousands of "hit workers".
They work hard, either without success, or by continued squeezing, or by complete neglect.
What exactly is it for to work for, and what is it for to survive, at this time there is a big question mark in my heart.
But through the "factory sewage" incident, the passion that was about to be extinguished was re-stimulated, allowing them to stick to their original intentions.
Although in the eyes of many people in society, it is very stupid and naïve not to recognize reality because of their humble status, the result is that they are the winners.
This can't help but remind people of what the minister said to Shen Baolan-
Is the world getting worse and worse?
In the past, the sky was good or the people, but recently people seem to be only in charge of themselves, and society seems to be gradually decaying. However, shouldn't it be easy to say that it was good in the past, and it is very irresponsible for people who have not lived in the past.
Yes, insisting on doing the right thing in the whirlpool of countercurrents is not something that everyone can do.
And once you do it, when it comes to playing your own value, people are sparkling and charming.
In contrast, mediocrity, day after day, the first dreams and passions are buried little by little, which is the most cruel and terrible.