South Korea's annual thriller "The Nighthawk" recently released resources on the Internet. Many mainland audiences watched the movie for the first time and released praise on the Internet.
Many viewers exclaimed: "It's so wonderful that I can't be distracted, I didn't even eat a bite of popcorn in my hand." "The nearly two-hour movie is so wonderful that it feels like it's only two minutes away." "The most perfect masterpiece of movies I've seen in recent years."
Many journalists also recommended by name, Choi Song-hee of "Asian Economy": "Unfold a story full of speed in a calm atmosphere!" "MyDaily" Yang Youzhen reporter: "Unimagined suspense thriller!" ”
The film is carefully created by the production team of "Emergency Landing", gathering gorgeous casts such as "Alien + Man" Yoo Junyeol, "Secret Alliance 2" Yoo Hae-jin, "That Year, Our Summer" Kim Sung-chul, "The Life of Doctor Wit" Ahn Eun-jin and so on.
The director was inspired by "Records of the Joseon Dynasty", in which the description of the death of "Zhao Xian Shizi" is only a short paragraph: "The whole body is black, and all seven tips are blood...". The director was quite curious about what happened at that time, so he combined the acupuncture doctor with "day blindness" to write this suspenseful story.
The plot is full of dangers and reversals
The plot of the whole film is mainly played by Kyung-so played by Yoo Junyeol, although he suffers from "day blindness", that is, he can hardly see when the light is bright during the day, and everyone sees him as blind, but what everyone does not know is that when the lights go out, he has extraordinary eyesight and can see more clearly in the dark.
He has a frail and sick brother who lives a hard life, he studied acupuncture hard and tried to perform, hoping that one day entering the palace would allow his younger brother to live a better life, and he really got his wish to enter the palace and become a member of the inner hospital.
The atmosphere of the plot is also mysterious from beginning to end, with Yoo Junyeol leading the audience to understand what he sees.
His Royal Highness Renzu does not show his face often, and it seems that the emotional ups and downs are difficult to control, and even the left half of his face will twitch from time to time when he is excited, although the Yuansun in the palace is 10 years old and also suffers from strange diseases, and the harem Zhaorong also summons the imperial doctor for acupuncture from time to time due to abdominal pain... It felt that the entire court did not seem to be in good health, and even the courtiers seemed to be unconvinced, ready to overthrow the regime at any time.
All this is unimaginable to Liu Junyeol, who has never entered the palace, how can he survive in such an environment?
Everyone knows that Jingxiu is a blind man, thinking that blind people should naturally close their mouths and express less opinions except for their eyes, and Jingxiu naturally learns such a law in order to survive.
However, one day he turned out to be the only witness to the moment of Shizi's death, should he tell the truth and say that he was not completely blind? Or do you just keep your mouth shut and let the truth sink into the ocean? For the sake of his younger brother, he must save his own little life, but can he violate his conscience?
Of course, Kyung-so, who finally had the evidence on the scene, chose to tell the truth of the day, but what made him difficult to resist was all the changes after telling the truth. Does anyone want to believe the dictation of a blind doctor? Someone is trying to cover up the truth?
After Kyung-so told the truth, the situation turned around, and he seemed to push himself to the edge of the cliff, and his life was at stake. From the time Yoo Junyeol perceived the truth to after telling the truth, every terrifying acting made the audience almost suffocate! Yanagi Jin's facial muscle twitches close to stroke symptoms are also quite realistic.
In order to interpret this role, Yoo Junyeol also made a lot of preparations in advance, he said: "I met some visually impaired people and also had the opportunity to talk with people with day blindness. Learning a lot about the visually impaired through this character is also very helpful for the film itself. ”
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Yoo Junyeol and Yoo Hae-jin will unleash a fierce spark overnight. Yoo Hae-jin played the king of North Korea "Injo" in the play, and Yoo Hae-jin, who played the "king of Joseon" for the first time in 25 years since his debut, said: "This is the first role I have tried, so I also have ambitions!" "I hope that I can interpret the established image of a different "king" than before, with more personal color.
Indeed, he interprets the psychological level of the character quite layered in the play, in which his emotional ups and downs seem to be uncontrollable, and the left half of his face will twitch irregularly when he is excited; Liu Haizhen, on the other hand, can perfectly interpret the appearance of facial muscle twitching, and at the same time his face is full of worry and fear, which seems to hide unknown secrets and add suspense.
Terrified atmosphere
This is a story inspired by actual history. In history, Shizi died suddenly for unknown reasons, and the theories behind it are divergent and speculative.
The film uses thriller elements to gouge and combines acupuncturists with day blindness to write ingenious suspense stories and tense atmospheres.
The first half of the plot steadily lays out the characters and events, and follows the protagonist into the palace step by step, but gradually steps from the original humorous daily life to the treacherous atmosphere of court battles and entanglements.
And the plot in the second half takes a sharp turn due to the death of the son of the world, and the thriller atmosphere hits like a storm that is terrifying, who is the mastermind? What is the motivation? All kinds of speculations surround the plot, and even if the truth is revealed, the audience is still shocked.
Thriller suspense is greater than suspense
Because about the cause of Shizi's death, it is already known in the middle of the plot who is the murderer and the cause of death, and even who is the mastermind behind the scenes can be a little known, and the plot direction is not too difficult to predict, so there is less suspense to track down the real murderer.
But instead, the horror of trying to find conclusive evidence of the crime, wash away the wrongs, and make the truth public, especially the power struggle of the court hidden behind it, makes the suspense step by step is the focus.
And the combination of historical and thriller elements tells this story from the perspective of a blind acupuncturist, so that the strange cause of death of Shizi and the history of Renzu's death due to malaria have the opportunity to be reconstructed, and the creative inspiration is admirable.
It is especially recommended for fans of Yoo Joonyeol or Yoo Haejin, those who are interested in Korean history, and those who prefer thriller and suspense elements, or simply want to enjoy a sense of tension and immersion!