"Extreme Escape" is definitely a masterpiece of Korean cinema in 2019, although it is a new type of disaster action film, it is full of irony to today's society. Originally a tedious and dreary disaster film, it uses a large number of comedic elements to add to make the heavy atmosphere get a relaxed way to present.
After graduation, Li Yongnan (Cao Zhengyi), a young unemployed vagrant who has suffered many job failures and can only stay at home, and who bears the criticism and ridicule of his whole family, awkwardly reunites at his mother's 70th birthday party with Zheng Yizhu (Lin Yun'er), a college junior who worked in the banquet hall.
When the birthday feast reached its climax, strange smoke from nowhere spread from the building, and the entire city center was surrounded by toxic gases and plunged into great chaos. As the poison gas rises, everyone has to go to the rooftop to take refuge and wait for rescue.
But the door on the roof was locked and could not be opened. The panicked crowd began to collapse in chaos. At this time, Li Yongnan smashed the glass of the building and prepared to climb up to the roof from the outer wall. The whole family thought that Li Yongnan was crazy, how could this be done. Li Yongnan, who did not have any security measures, proved with his actions that he could do it. Successfully climbed to the roof and opened the door.
In order to attract the helicopter rescue found on the roof of everyone, Yizhu ran to the console alone to adjust the lights on the roof, successfully attracted the attention of the helicopter search and rescue personnel, when Yizhu returned to the roof, but was told that the rescue station was overloaded, Zheng Yizhu and Li Yongnan were ruthlessly abandoned.
The poison gas continues to spread and rise, in order to survive, the two can only go to the roof of the higher building to take refuge, so they use all the physical strength and skills accumulated during the climbing society, use everything available around them, use the wit of escape, and begin a thrilling and funny escape road.
In the play, it is found many times that the doors on the roof of the building are almost always closed, and the higher the floor, the more you can get rescue first. The height of the floor is often related to the wealth and status of society, and ordinary people try to climb up and climb to the top floor, but find that the door leading to the roof is always closed. The keys are only in the hands of the owner of the building.
At the time of the disaster, Zheng Yizhu, as a girl, should have been protected and given priority to rescue, but instead needed to guide and rescue the victims of panic, and finally the rescue team was abandoned by everyone when it arrived.