The most recent movie I watched was Extreme Escape.
This is a Korean movie, comedy + disaster film, although you can guess the ending from the beginning, the expected elements are also there, like the nephew to the uncle from disdain to worship, like the family affection, like the male protagonist to the female protagonist from crush to brave confession, like the disaster to rescue, escape are expected, or very cool to see the end.
The film received many award nominations, was said to have been a big hit at the theatrical box office, and was a success as an entertainment film. Comedy disaster films do not seem to be a lot of domestic films, either very funny, or very tragic, these two points are difficult to integrate well, this movie can be said to do, the front funny after the extreme escape.
The male protagonist is an unemployed youth, and the female protagonist is a hotel manager, which is a common setting of weak men and strong women. Yesterday, when I first started watching the Korean drama "Coast Village Cha Cha Cha Cha", the female protagonist is a dentist, and the male protagonist is also an unemployed youth, the same setting. Perhaps it is to form a contrast, or another manifestation of the rise of feminism.
I am a man, but I like this setting, on the one hand, I am happy to see the rise of feminism, I hope that women can be economically independent, have the concept of independent thinking and freedom of thought, on the other hand, I also want to be an unemployed youth, full of food all day, swimming non-stop, nothing. Lately I've been fantasizing about not going to work and driving around the world in my motorhome every day.
Although the male protagonist is unemployed, he has the skill of climbing, and he can save his family and lover in times of danger. The actor of the male protagonist is called Cao Zhengyi, who has starred in "The Life of a Witty Doctor", casually say that this TV series has a high evaluation in Douban, and some people compare it with "Please Answer 1988", I think it is not as good.
The heroine's actor is called Lin Yun'er, who is really beautiful and is also one of the motivations for me to seriously watch the whole movie. In many disaster films, women play the role of being rescued, but in this movie, the heroine and the male protagonist escape hand in hand, without dragging the male protagonist at all, justifying the name of the woman, I have always thought that in the face of disaster, women are more rational, more able to respond correctly, weaker than men is more reflected in physical strength.
The drone that appears in the latter part of the film surprises me that technology will profoundly change our lives in the future, especially artificial intelligence may be able to replace us in the near future, making us unemployed and unemployed youth. If there is such a day, I am not at all surprised, even our company canteen has been delivered by robots.
The disasters in the film are caused by toxic chemical gases, and gas leaks occur in reality, most of which are small in scale and harmless. There are many more frightening and dangerous situations in reality, such as the new crown virus that is now raging around the world. If humanity were to be destroyed at its own hands one day, it would probably not be war or nuclear weapons, but these epidemics, the side effects of the pursuit of technology. Although it is an entertainment movie, there are also places worth reflecting on.