Dad looks a little careless and has no official job; my aunt is a foreign bow player but always hesitates to drop the chain at critical moments; and my uncle can't find a job after graduating from college, so he can only drink heavily; the only one who seems to be capable is grandpa Come on. With such a combination, fighting against mutated monsters is really weak. But it is such a family, they can pursue the monster desperately for their only child, and finally destroy the monster.
In the later stories, it became more and more felt that only a family who wanted to be so "stupid" could become the protagonists of Korean monster films, because they were persistent and "stupid" enough to fight against a special force with "specialized training in germ warfare" "The mutant monsters that can't be avoided are chasing after them (of course, there is basically no head-on conflict between the "big army" and the monsters during the viewing of the movie, there are other deep meanings, which will not be discussed in depth here).
If this is like an American blockbuster directed by a group of experts and executed by professional troops, hunting down monsters with state-of-the-art weapons, is it still a real Korean monster film? the answer is negative. After watching so many Korean movies, you will find that there are too many stories about the perpetrators who sacrificed their lives for the sake of their family members and pursued the perpetrators with a small amount of wealth (see "Yellow Sea", "Catch That Guy", "No Crying Mother" and a series of Korean films). And this "stupid" family happens to have one person in the palm of his hand-Xuan Rui, from the scene where the aunt and uncle officially appeared, the family of four cried and cried, there is a kind of "lost forever" My love", one can imagine how anxiously the family wanted to find her as soon as possible when they learned that Xuan Rui was still alive but in danger. After unsuccessfully seeking help, grandpa used all his savings to buy three shotguns, several searchlights, two sets of disinfection uniforms, a disinfection vehicle that could sneak into the blocked Han River epidemic area, and a map of the Han River sewer, and the family started by themselves. rescue operation. Seeing this, I can't help but want to stand up and applaud this family, for their "stupidity", for their relentless determination, and for their pure and persistent purpose.
The first scene in the film that made me cry and also made me feel warmest was when the family returned to their own shop near the Han River on a rainy night to fill their hunger with instant noodles. Here, the director arranged the only family reunion. Beside her family, her father, grandfather, uncle, and aunt hurriedly handed her all kinds of food and water. That kind of ordinary happiness filled the whole house in this cold and terrifying rainy night when monsters could appear at any time. The director obviously didn't want us moviegoers to relax, and then arranged for Grandpa's death. My tears came again. Grandpa turned around and waved to his children, which made me unable to calm down for a long time in the next movie.
After that, my uncle used his relationship to lock Xuan Rui's position and was almost caught; my aunt received the information and ran a long distance to find the monster's lair. However, our hesitant aunt still failed to shoot an arrow in the frontal encounter with the monster. array. Here I want to mention Pei Douna's acting skills in particular. She performed her aunt's hesitation and indecision, which resulted in the delay of the arrow to the monster. When watching the movie, there was a sense of anxiety that "the arrow is on the string" but "delayed". . It also echoes the scene of the archery competition on TV at the beginning, which makes the character of the aunt more prominent. With the last key arrow, the aunt overcame her indecisive character and finally counterattacked, which well shaped the image of the aunt.
Next, father and uncle got rid of their own predicaments and ran to the nest for rescue, and the children in the sewers were also saving themselves. When Xuanrui stepped on the sleeping monster and tried his best to catch the upward rope, I almost wanted to I thought happy ending beckoned not far away, but ah, Tengqi's body was finally firmly in the hands of the monster. Despair in the sewers seemed to overflow from the computer screen into my heart.
The counterattack on the shore showed the strength of the "stupid" family, and the fighting power reached its peak after discovering that Xuan Rui was dead: the uncle threw the homemade fire bottle skillfully and accurately. Dad gave the monster a fatal blow at the end. In the raging fire, the monster was defeated.
It is this family that has been confronting the monster head-on, and it is this family that has lost the most in this monster disaster. Ah, but it is the family that was forced to the corner of destiny by the monster and became the only protagonist of this film! Forgive me, among all the metaphors in this monster film, I am only moved by this "stupid" family affection.
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