Equally evident is the mockery of the South Korean government. Those few yellow-clothed staff who staggered after picking up people; the careless and arrogant police officers in the hospital; the chaotically assembled hospital; the staff who asked for bribes at the checkpoint... The Korean government's emergency response mechanism, the working attitude of civil servants, the internal government The organizational relationship, etc., is displayed in an almost absurd form.
Actually, this is something I hadn't thought of before. My expectation would be that it was a Korean Hollywood sci-fi, disaster blockbuster. I thought so until the monster chased by the river. In fact, this film also has the potential to be a good sci-fi film. The monsters themselves are well done, and the few chase scenes are not bad either. I even thought that Song Kangho would go berserk and become a solitary hero, and Bae Doona would perform a handsome bow and arrow performance (I have to say, she is so beautiful when she shoots with a bow).
In fact, the director clearly has bigger ambitions. That's where the beginning of the article comes from. At the same time, the protagonist's family also has distinct characteristics. Grandpa is a simple, honest and down-to-earth old man, and the family belongs to him. He has always been in charge of finding a car or something, and he has to hit the last shot in the face of monsters. Perhaps the most touching is the remorse of talking about my son in a small shop. My younger brother is an unemployed college student (everyone says that his situation is related to the student movement, I didn't notice any hints, but I also refer to this statement), he has been acting impulsive and irritable, but when he was looking for a niece position The opposite of courage and wisdom. The younger sister is more conventional, she is usually hesitant and lacks confidence, and she strikes a fatal blow at a critical time. As for the protagonist Song Kanghao, he feels unreliable from the very beginning, and most of the time this movie is still unreliable, all it is is the courage to love his daughter. The daughter is probably the only positive character in the whole movie. She has the courage and the wit to survive, and the movie is also based on rescuing her. Probably, the director set a little bit of hope and light in the chaos. However, in the end she still died.
However, in my opinion, the director actually did not handle the relationship between the material and the theme very well. The director is undoubtedly going to take the line of ridicule, but he did not shoot in exactly the same tone. Originally, if the South Korean government was unreliable, he would have been completely exposed, but there were military police, patrols, and deployments waiting for him. This is half realistic and half ironic, making people feel that the South Korean government is a bunch of idiots. It is not bad to have small characters with distinctive characteristics in the main characters, and to reflect the love, hope and fighting spirit of the common people. But why use such a physical and simple method, isn't there a method that is a little ingenious, a little bit more lucky, but just fits their identity background? Completely treating the military and police as fools, it took so many days for such a monster to fight five scumbags. The atmosphere of this film is also not unified. It does not mean that it is not good to use science fiction with horror and satire with humorous temperament. It's just that, in a scene, there should always be a tendency to be more obvious, otherwise it will feel a bit nondescript.
This movie is really a good attempt. It's just that I still feel a little overwhelmed, walking in the middle of the two types. What a pity.
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