What should I do if I have the flu?
Most people's answer is: just drink some hot water.
But today Tomato wants to share with you a movie about the flu, the power of the flu in the film is comparable to the zombie virus, almost letting humanity perish.
This movie is the disaster blockbuster "Flu" released in South Korea in 2013.
And tomatoes prefer it another name —
"The Plague"
A group of stowaways, hiding in sea containers, set off from Hong Kong for South Korea.
Nine days later, when the South Korean snakehead opened the container to pick up people, he was scared silly by the scene in front of him.
The inside of the container smelled foul and was stained with blood, like a slaughterhouse. For unknown reasons, the stowaways have all died as rotting corpses, and only one teenager is dying and rescued by two snake heads.
The snakeheads received the dead man who thought he was obscure,
But what they don't know is that what killed the stowaways was a swine flu virus. It was because of their business that the deadly virus landed in South Korea.
How strong is this virus? Just look at the performance of infected people.
On the first day, high fever cough;
On the third day, vomiting blood coma;
On the sixth day, the blood collapsed and died violently.
The snake-headed brother played by South Korean xiaosheng Lee Sang-yeol was the first to be infected, and he did not live more than half an hour in the film to receive a box lunch.
This death is a word, miserable!
What's worse is that this virus, like the common flu, can be transmitted through droplets.
During the onset of the snakehead brother's illness, this death virus took him as its source and exploded in the Bundang region of South Korea at a geometrically multiple growth rate.
And our heroine Renhai is a single mother and a doctor.
When the attentive Renhai was rescuing the snakehead brother, he found the clue of the container through the mobile phone video, and also discovered the existence of survivors.
Renhai was acutely aware that the survivors inside the container were still alive many days later, most likely because antibodies had been produced in their bodies.
Whether survivors can be found to obtain antibodies has become the key to winning this 'war epidemic'.
But by this time, the Bundang region of Korea had completely fallen.
The hospital was paralyzed, and the patient and the doctor coughed up blood and died.
Social riots, the masses like crazy burning and looting.
In order to take into account the overall situation, the South Korean government finally made the decision to "lose the car and protect the marshal".
The army entered the Bundang area to impose a total blockade, and even the birds flying high in the air were strafed by the soldiers with machine guns.
Local residents were fully taken into custody in the stadium, and infected and non-infected people were simply isolated.
Ren'ai and her daughter were also deported to the stadium, along with a firefighter Tomohisa, whom they had previously met.
At this time, Ren'ai accidentally discovered that her daughter was also infected with the virus, but she hid her daughter's condition from the outside world.
Because she knows that the government is powerless to treat the infected, and can only let them fend for themselves.
On the one hand, the crisis in the entire Bundang Stadium is on the verge of erupting, and the gathered crowd provides a hotbed for the virus to erupt.
On the other hand, the surviving teenager who was initially smuggled in is found, and Ren'ai firmly believes that only his serum can save his daughter and the countrymen.
Will this catastrophe engulf South Korea,
whether antibodies are really present in the survivors' bodies,
Can Ren Ai and her daughter get a glimmer of life,
Everything became unknown.
Tomato has always believed that it is enough to evaluate whether a country's film industry is developed or not, and to see how well they shoot disaster films.
Disaster movies are a genre that requires both hard and soft power.
The plot is not deep enough, indicating that the level of practitioners is not in place;
The special effects are not real enough, indicating that the capital operation in the industry is not in place.
The quality of disaster films can be a very objective measure of the degree of industrialization of a country's films.
And this "Flu", as one of the representative works of Korean disaster films, can be a big responsibility.
For rhythm control and scene rendering, the big director Kim Sung-so is very familiar with it. The crime god 'Asura' and the Sino-Korean co-production blockbuster "Samurai" are all written by him.
In the movie Flu, director Kim Sung-so has a fairly accurate grasp of the rhythm of the escalation of the situation.
From the first patient to the overcrowding of the hospital;
From the spread of virus droplets to the full outbreak of the epidemic.
Throughout the two-hour film, the director is always able to grasp the audience's eyeballs and hearts, and gradually render the tension of the film to the extreme.
When it came to the bridge section of the "living cemetery", the audience's sense of fear basically climbed to the peak.
Inside the huge soccer field, tens of thousands of corpses were piled up, including many patients who had not yet swallowed.
Excavators and incineration equipment for construction came in handy, and the remains of the patients were raised high and then ignited, forming a "mountain of fire corpses".
Originally set up to help the sick, the base camp was eventually transformed into a shura field and a living hell.
The impact of this mass grave on the audience needs no need to be repeated, and Tomato is really convinced by the large scale of Korean movies.
In addition to the rhythm is tight enough, the scene is bigger. Another criterion for considering disaster movies is whether the plot is dug deep enough.
Good disaster movies, in the final analysis, are "planing humanity".
Good as Jiang Zhijiu.
Jiang Zhijiu, a rescue worker played by Zhang He, has forgotten his life and death, and has repeatedly helped strangers.
He risked his life to break into the graveyard of the living, and dug up his benevolent daughter from the pile of corpses, and finally saved the little girl.
Evil is like a national huan.
The war chief, Quan Guohuan, played by Ma Dong-seok, is a brutal and cruel government minion.
He took advantage of the outbreak of the epidemic to make a fortune in the country, not only using the convenience of his position to privately release patients for huge profits, but also using bloody means to suppress refugees.
A medical professor trying to save the people from fire and water, a national parliamentarian who will stop at nothing for political gain;
An upright president who puts the interests of the nation first has succumbed to the flattery of the Prime Minister by Western forces.
A scene of human nature ukiyo-e is staged in the film, and the good and evil in human nature are infinitely magnified in the face of disaster.
Some bean friends complained that the heroine in the film was selfish, and the three views of the film were not correct:
The heroine Ren Ai, knowing that her daughter has been infected with the virus, still chooses to hide her daughter's condition, and her behavior is likely to lead to disastrous results.
But Tomato just feels that such a plot arrangement reflects the true human nature.
Is it that if you were a mother, you would choose to sit still when you learned that her daughter was seriously ill and was about to be placed by the government to die?
When you ask a mother, is it sacrificing the lives of others or the lives of her own children? I think we all know the answer.
You say that her three views are not correct, or that she is selfish and arrogant, but this is the naked true human nature.
At the end of the film, director Kim Sung-so's men were merciful, leaving the audience with a happy ending. Interested fans can turn around and pick up the film themselves.
But Tomato watched this movie for a long time but could not calm down.
The cost of this "war epidemic" is too bloody and heavy, and some of the plots of the film are too real.
And the most frightening thing is that
In the near future, will this deadly virus actually come to the world?
(Rotten Tomatoes Movie Editorial Department: Gull Gull)