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The global new crown epidemic has not improved for a long time, and several Hollywood giants that should have ignited the summer season have also been delayed again and again.
Fortunately, South Korea's enthusiasm for movies has not diminished. Taking advantage of the summer vacation, it has thrown out two zombie-themed movies that can be called annual expectations.
Then today let's talk (sǎo) talk (léi) about one of the more special ones——
"#live"
The reason why it is special is that the gimmicks of the movie are quite novel compared to the previous ones.
The bright "#" in the title is a distinctive symbol of the current Internet age, and the melon-eating people who often use Weibo should be most familiar with this hashtag.
Whether it's a character poster imitating a mobile phone screen, or the film's previous viral promotion on social networks;
Or the male protagonist on the poster is desperately looking for a signal with a clothes pole, all of which are emphasizing the uniqueness of this film, namely-contemporary young people in the zombie crisis.
Coincidentally, this year's epidemic has brought each of us closer to this film.
From the fear of the epidemic to the long-term home isolation, everyone's lifestyle has undergone profound changes with the general environment.
If handled properly, the audience's resonance and sense of substitution for "#Alive" should be unmatched by previous zombie movies.
Not everyone is Milla Jovovich after all.
Since "Train to Busan", South Korea has set off a wave of zombies that has not diminished in popularity.
Subsequent works such as "Kingdom" and "Rampant" also at least show that from the hardware level, Korean zombie films have become the backbone of East Asia.
However, under such own conditions and the audience's high expectations, "#Alive" delivered an answer beyond ordinary people's imagination.
That is, in a sand sculpture manner that is bizarre and even insulting to people's IQ, he answered a failing grade.
At first, I was skeptical about the word-of-mouth Waterloo, until I watched this film with an exploratory spirit of unbelief...
What is this? ? ?
In fact, the film was normal at the beginning, at least the screenwriter still remembered what the main gimmick of the film was.
Wu Junyu, played by Liu Yaren, is a typical contemporary otaku. He got up in a daze at ten o'clock in the morning. After a simple wash, he sat in front of the computer without even opening the curtains, and began a refreshing day in the game world.
From the PUBG on the computer screen, the figure on the shelf, and the bed in the bedroom that will be sprayed by parents, all these are trying to fit the huge group of contemporary people who will start to be frantic without Wi-Fi.
Just when the lazy and boring day was about to start, the zombie crisis broke out without warning.
The two completely different styles of painting inside and outside the house suddenly combined, and the A-Zhai who had seen the wind and waves in the virtual world instantly became stupid.
At this time, Wu Junyu's home has become a shelter in hell, and he is about to face the dilemma of survival on a desert island when he is at home alone.
(Please ignore why, except for him, most of the people are trying to escape instead of locking the doors and windows and hiding at home, it's just so blunt)
And the most interesting part of this character design is "waste wood". How will this character who can't live for three minutes in the zombie theme survive?
But it's obviously not what we expected after that.
Although it looks like there is not much food at home, there is either an unfinished wine or food stored next door.
It is precisely because the existential crisis in the house can always be alleviated that "#Alive" has never brought a real sense of oppression, and the urgent crisis has been isolated from the world outside the door with unknown settings.
(Of course, I also can't understand why the male protagonist, as a standard otaku, doesn't stock up on snacks at all???)
It is very unfortunate that Yoo Ah-in, who has always been considered to be very secure in his acting skills, can't take this film with him.
It is one thing to have a weak sense of crisis brought about by the environment. It is another thing to show a person's mental state of being isolated for nearly a month through performances, and to exaggerate a sense of despair. However, the screenwriter did not give Liu Yaren any room to play. Both roads were blocked.
As for the hardware details, I don't insist on the haggard state that the characters should be in such a low food intake and a high stress state, but at least you can't be almost a month later, and the male protagonist's delicate yellow head is still maintained. As it was, even the beard stopped growing along with the hair, right?
Next, the cool physique of the film is even more exposed. The desperate male protagonist tries to hang himself, but he happens to be seen by the young lady on the opposite floor, so the male protagonist saves himself after kicking the chair away. come back? ? ?
Mainly or in the case of being hanged for a few seconds? ? ?
Kim Yoo Bin, played by Park Shin Hye, is a master rock climber, and his various survival skills are also very strong.
It's like an enhanced version of Lin Yuner's character in "Extreme Escape" (in fact, even the drone is better for "Extreme Escape").
The action scenes are even more outrageous. The Valkyrie who kept saying that she was afraid of heights dared to descend from the sky without blinking her eyes.
The zombies in the film are like an advanced version of "Zombie World War". In addition to running fast, some zombies also retain some of the skills they used to live, such as opening doors and climbing.
This should have been an unprecedented threat, but he encountered the male and female protagonists who were shrouded in the golden light of the great protagonist of Korea.
Jin Youbin can be said to be a man who blocks the killing Buddha and blocks the killing Buddha. The berserker moves precisely along the way, and he is also favored by the god of luck.
I just woke up from the power of sleeping pills, and I was in the same room with the zombies with my hands tied. There was no reasonable explanation. Anyway, I still managed to kill me unscathed. What do you want me to do?
Maybe a normal human with great physical fitness and a super soldier with rich actual combat experience are a kind of person in the eyes of the screenwriter?
That said, the useless male protagonist is even more outrageous. I will endure it when I am a stick killer, but with a bicycle, I can be a man and a man in the corridor. What kind of magical power is this?
(To be honest, I just laughed when I saw this)
I have to say that the group actors who play zombies in the film are really good actors. They are quite dedicated. The cooperation with the male and female protagonists in the climax action scenes reproduces the wonderful performances of various qigong masters.
In the second half of the movie, an uncle popped out unexpectedly and staged a classic Korean-style "human torture".
And his presence does nothing but make everything more ridiculous, because the real environment suitable for discussing human nature has long been smashed to pieces ahead.
Just as the film is coming to an end, everyone has completely forgotten what the gimmick was that attracted us in the first place, hey~ the screenwriter remembered it!
At this time, we will move out of the Internet and this set of sensational, don't you blush?
PS. Please, don't let the helicopter rise from the downstairs of the residential building in the future, okay? Not cool at all.
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