After several months of long waiting, the film and television industry in various places began to resume work one after another.
At the beginning of June, Korean films officially resumed the release of new local films.
Leading the way is this thriller suspense film —
《Intruder》
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"Intruder" was originally scheduled to be released in March this year, but due to the impact of the epidemic, it was withdrawn twice, and finally officially released on June 4.
It was also the first new Korean film to be released in theaters after the pandemic, and the film had already sold the rights in 26 countries around the world before it was released.
Since no new film has been released for a long time, the results of "Intruder" are very impressive.
The pre-sale rate ranked first in the pre-sale list, and the number of viewers on the day of release reached 50,000, easily topped the daily box office championship, becoming the highest single-day box office Korean local film in the past three months.
Up to now, the cumulative number of moviegoers has exceeded 280,000, and the market share is as high as 63.3%, and it is currently sitting in the first position of film schedule, popularity and box office.
Word-of-mouth is also quite good, with South Korean rating site Naver scoring a high score of 9.4 on its platform.
The audience was also unanimously praised.
"The performance is very good and the way the suspense is handled is also very good."
"Creepy tension."
"Best mystery thriller I've seen this year."
The main creative lineup of the film is also very interesting.
Director Sun Yuanping, a famous Korean novelist, swept the literary awards with novels such as "Thirty Strikes Back" and "Snow of April", of which "Almond" set a surprising record of 250,000 sales in South Korea.
The film is her feature-length film debut.
The production team is also an excellent group that has produced high-profile films such as "Malicious Chronicles", "Crime City", and "The Legend of the Wicked".
The Legend of the Wicked
The male protagonist, Jin Wulie, has starred in works such as "The Legend of the Wicked", "Yinjiao", "A Branch of Plum" and so on.
Playing Ma Dong-seok's partner police officer Jung Tae-seok in last year's critically acclaimed movie "The Legend of the Wicked", he performed wonderfully.
The heroine Song Ji-hyo, a famous Korean actress, has starred in "I Love You", "New World", "Palace", "Angry Scalper" and other works.
In addition to being an actress, she is also a core member of the popular variety show "Running Man", with countless fans of intelligence and cuteness, and is affectionately known as "Ignorant Wisdom" by everyone.
This is also her second challenge to the thriller genre after 17 years after her debut film "Sopranos Talk 3".
For the suspense film again, Song Zhixiao also showed full expectations.
This role is the complete opposite of her usual image, and she has hardly been exposed to such dark characters in the ten years of hosting "Running Man".
So she was completely impressed by this role, and after receiving the script, she immediately asked the director to ask for a role.
In order to make the image of the main actor more in line with the role, the director also asked the two protagonists to lose weight.
So Jin Wulie and Song Zhixiao actively lost weight, Song Zhixiao also fought very hard, in order to lose weight successfully in a short period of time, not only dieting but also running 10 kilometers along the Han River every night.
The story of the film begins with a disappearance.
The heroine played by Song Zhixiao, Youzhen, disappeared when she was a child, and despite the efforts of the family to find it, she still did not find it.
After 25 years, the heroine's brother Xu Zhen (Jin Wulie) received a call from the police station saying that he had found the heroine.
The family is very happy about the return of the heroine, although the heroine said that she recognized the hero at a glance, but the man still feels very strange to her.
With the arrival of the heroine, the atmosphere in the home has become more and more warm, but behind the seeming happiness, there is a trace of weirdness.
So the male protagonist began to investigate his sister, he found that the female protagonist actually appeared at the scene of his wife's murder, and as the investigation deepened, he felt that this woman was not his sister.
When he told his family about this idea, the family actually stood on the side of the female protagonist and did not believe the male protagonist's words.
It turned out that after the murder of the man's wife, the man was often in a trance and needed to take medicine and see a psychologist to alleviate it.
So this time the family thinks that the male protagonist is thinking wildly.
In the face of the male protagonist's doubts, the female protagonist did not panic, and even told the male protagonist not to worry, and now it is up to her to take care of the family.
In the end, who is true and who is false, as the story develops, a truth from 25 years ago slowly surfaces.
As a suspense thriller, judging from the trailer released, "Intruder" is tense and exciting throughout.
The film begins with suspense, on the one hand, the sister who has returned from 25 years of disappearance, and on the other hand, the brother who is mentally abnormal and suspicious of the sister.
The director brings together the contradictions of the two protagonists to promote the development of the plot, from the suspicion and suspicion between the two at the beginning to the final contradiction and conflict, making the story tense and exciting.
The reversal in the play is also brilliant, making people guess who is the real intruder?
The sense of suspense in the film is very well created, and the director makes the film full of horror through the dark pictures, the portrayal of closed spaces such as stairs, rooms, and forests, coupled with the rendering of music.
At the same time, the performance of the two leading actors is very exciting, Kim Moo-lie is the person who looks for secrets in the movie, and Song Ji hyo is the person who constantly throws out secrets.
The two vivid interpretations of the characters are vivid, and the opponent's scene is also full of sparks, full of highlights.
In particular, the performance of the heroine Song Zhixiao is very breakthrough and very amazing.
In the play, the sister she plays is gloomy and mysterious, with a smile on her face and an expressionless face, and is a character with a multi-faceted image.
In each state, Song Zhixiao is very well represented, full of layering and tension.
There is a scene in the trailer, she is pinched by her brother's neck, her eyes are sharp, her smile is gloomy, her green tendons are violent, and the whole person reveals a strong sense of weirdness, which makes people look creepy.
For the wonderful performance of the play netizens have praised, the performance reversal is too amazing, the "Queen of Horror" drove to.
Even Jin Wulie, who plays his brother in the film, said: "Seeing her performance, I felt terrible, like an intruder." ”
"Intruder" seems to be a thriller, but in fact, its core is still the family, and it tells a "return" story through "invasion".
As the director said: "Everyone may have become accustomed to the existence of family and family, and gradually forget its importance, hoping that the audience can rethink the meaning of family and family through "Intruder". ”
Overall, "Intruder" is still a very good work in terms of plot, actors, themes, etc., and it is also of great significance as a new film after the epidemic.
It not only injects fresh strength into the film and television industry, but also makes everyone see hope.
And that's exactly what the film and television industry needs now.
Piglet, | in the Editorial Department of Bluestone Films
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