Since the new crown epidemic, virus-themed film and television works that have been relatively niche have become active again in the public eye. The public account counts and pushes out either the top 10 or the top 20 classic viral film and television dramas, which are dazzling. Among the film and television dramas that really not only maintain a high level of entertainment, but also have a close connection with reality, which can arouse the audience's thinking, the first Korean movie "Influenza" is recommended.
1. An unforgettable spectacle
As a market-oriented commercial film, "Influenza" is clearly made and fascinating.
One of a group of Southeast Asians who smuggled into South Korea fell ill and lived in a closed shipping container for nine days.
After arriving in Bundang, South Korea, the smuggler brothers who were in charge of picking up the "goods" opened the container and found that all the stowaways died inexplicably.
Only one Southeast Asian man named Monse survived.
The brothers took Meng Se away, and on the way Meng Se escaped when the two were unprepared.
And one of the brothers suddenly developed a flu-like illness.
The virus spreads unknowingly when you buy medicines at pharmacies.
As a 2013 movie,
The opening scene is reminiscent of the 2019 news of 39 bodies found in trucks in the UK.
The final result of the investigation was the Vietnamese who smuggled in.
The resemblance sends chills down the spine.
In the final analysis, the birth of the virus is the fault of mankind's own sins.
while the virus spreads.
The acquaintance of the male and female protagonists stemmed from a thrilling rescue
Although the male protagonist fell in love with the female protagonist at first sight during the rescue, there was no sweet love plot at all.
This rescue scene is tense yet humorous, and the handling of the scene is full of dangers. Keep pace with the entire film.
The male protagonist Tomohisa is a firefighter with a sense of justice and responsibility for his work.
The heroine Ren Hai is a medical worker, and she acts more in the mindset of a single mother.
One side is a selfless person, and the other is a "selfish" person, which should be full of contradictions.
The ingenious point of the script is that it takes advantage of the setting that the heroine's daughter Mi-ri needs to be protected constantly.
Unifying the goals of the two also makes the audience's psychological sway in the judgment of the heroine's choice.
After learning that his brother died of the virus, the smuggler lost control of his emotions.
The doctor even dragged his brother's body to the ground during the riot.
The snakehead brothers are instrumental roles in the film.
The surviving smugglers will often appear at key points in the subsequent plot.
The sight of the brother who died after being dragged out of bed was very impactful.
He blamed all the faults on Mengser who escaped, and the idea of revenge was firmly imprinted in his mind.
It laid a solid foreshadowing for Meng Se's relentless pursuit of murder.
Similar instrumental character films generally have motives, coupled with fast rhythm,
When watching it for the first time, the audience will ignore too many coincidences in the plot.
The spread is fast, the mortality rate is high, and the virus infection situation is constantly escalating.
The government eventually had to seal off the basin and create a quarantine zone.
The film depicts a city that is gradually out of control through viral mixed cuts interspersed between the main plots.
Finally, an almost apocalyptic picture is used to show the highest point of chaos before the closure of the city.
Rumours circulated in quarantine that the infected were killed rather than treated.
Tomohisa rushed to the infected area in order to find the United States and Japan, and saw a terrible scene.
The audience's psychology will be shocked for the first time here, but this is only a foreshadowing.
Afterwards, the film presents an unforgettable spectacle.
Tomohisa finally came to the corpse disposal area, where countless corpses in a stadium were being burned.
Some body bags were even moving.
This scene is the best part of the film.
The male protagonist is constantly looking for, constantly disappointed,
The previous plays in the isolation area were all completed in relatively small spaces.
The camera suddenly brought out a wide panorama full of corpses, and the shock was self-evident.
This shock is not only the construction of the spectacle, but also the shock of death itself.
2. The icing on the cake for political expression
If it is limited to the presentation of spectacles, it is not enough to be called a good-looking commercial film.
Deep expression and corresponding non-boring plot is crucial.
The decisions of the "upper" politicians and the actions of the "lower" protagonists since the emergence of the quarantine zone
Interlocking, influencing each other, and ultimately keeping the suspense until the end.
The involvement of politics has brought the depth and enjoyment of the film to a higher level.
In recent years, when it comes to the black government, if South Korea recognizes the second, I am afraid that no one dares to be the first.
Soon after the infection spread in Bundang, politicians began to appear.
The MP who interrupted the doctor's meeting nearly stumbled upon entering the house.
When the congressman sat down and asked about the first line of the line, he didn't understand anything.
The ignorant are fearless, dismissive, and resolutely resist the measures to close the city.
Can this ability be seamlessly associated with the management level of a city leader during the epidemic?
When he found out that the situation was wrong, he was more anxious than anyone else when he was evacuating by helicopter.
After moving to a safe location, it was particularly aggressive to propose lockdown measures during the meeting.
This congressman is still an instrumental role, and there are very few shots.
But the film takes this kind of selfishness in a few strokes,
The faces of politicians who have more than enough success and failure are very accurate.
The director's impression of most politicians is evident through this character.
The classic trolley dilemma is back
A group of politicians patted the table in a few words and decided to put all healthy and unhealthy people in Bundang together for isolation.
As if there is a right answer to this situation.
The film's satire on politicians is also gradually strengthening,
It was a talent problem before, but now it has risen to the indifference of human nature.
In stark contrast to
The hero and heroine are also in a trolley dilemma
Ren Hai still concealed the truth even though he knew that his daughter was infected, and brought his daughter into a non-infected area.
Although Tomohisa objected, he finally acquiesced.
The same question, politicians and the protagonists who represent small people show very different choices.
Which is right and which is wrong? The audience thinks for themselves, there is no answer.
Violent, repressive quarantine measures have resulted in only popular resistance.
It ended up being a tragedy of shooting at the people.
Although it was an accident that led to the final tragedy.
But the root cause is that politicians at the top turn a deaf ear to the needs of the people.
It is self-evident which event in Korea the film maps here.
The director knows that this kind of tragedy can only be awakened to future generations if it is often expressed.
The most interesting and thrilling point is South Korea's military command battle combined with its own geopolitics
Due to historical problems, the command of the South Korean military was in the hands of the United States during the war.
In order to prevent the virus from spreading to the world, the United States will not consider the lives of Koreans at all
The film took this opportunity to smear the United States, and it also made a fool of itself.
The South Korean president went head-to-head with the U.S. commander at the most critical moment until the U.S. backed down.
But the movie is not reality after all. In the years after the movie was released,
Whether it's a THAAD issue or a wartime transfer of command
In reality, it has always been the South Korean government.
3. Hollywood class reps
I believe if you have seen the 1995 classic Hollywood movie "Extreme Panic"
It is not surprising that South Korea can make such a skilled commercial film.
In the 13th minute of "Influenza"
As the only survivor in the container.
Monser got rid of the snakehead's control and started to run away aimlessly.
Monse fled and climbed the hillside very much like a monkey
The lens slowly pulls back up
It indicates that a disaster is about to come to Bundang City.
In the film "Extreme Panic", there is a very similar scene
When monkeys, which are an important source of infection, are released into the deep forest.
The same lens processing gives people a psychological feeling that a major event is imminent and the source of virus infection is uncontrollable.
In "Cold", the virus spread through droplets is visualized as small white dots floating around in the air.
It's the exact same approach used in 1995's Panic.
"Influenza" China, the United States, Japan and Mengser met by chance and became friends with each other.
There is a similar setting in "Extreme Panic", except that in this film, the girl is a marginal character.
In addition to similar shot scheduling and scene settings,
There is also the entire virus spread, the context of escalation, and the idea of political integration.
I don't believe Influenza didn't borrow heavily from Panic.
But the former combines the trend of the times and its own characteristics,
Abandoning the latter's old-fashioned setting of extreme personal heroism,
Speed up the pace of the plot, enrich the plot,
At the same time, it cooperates with a large number of modern popular hand-held photography and other lens techniques and more advanced special effects.
The result is an entertaining commercial film.
This is of course not to say that "Influenza" is a highly finished film.
When I watched it for the first time,
The fast pace of the film and the intense dramatic conflict can make people dizzy and ignore a lot of problems.
If you look at it again, you will feel that there are too many coincidences.
The second is that such a huge structure is still a bit simple to advance.
In 2013, "Influenza" was the 13th domestic film in South Korea, with 3.11 million viewers.
In the same year, the top ten Korean domestic films are:
"The Gift of Room 7" (12.81 million)
"Snowpiercer" (9.33 million)
"Perspective" (8.49 million)
"Berlin" (7.17 million)
"Secret and Great" (6.95 million)
"Hide and Seek" (5.6 million)
"Horror Live" (5.57 million)
The Watchers (5.5 million) and more
Many of them are well-known works by Chinese fans and even ordinary audiences.
The completion and entertainment of each film are not inferior to "Influenza".
This is only the data and level of Korean movies 7 years ago.
At the same time, "Parasite" shines brightly at the level of film history at the Oscars.
Chinese filmmakers and fans are sore in their eyes.
If the industrialization of film is a course,
Hollywood is the teacher of the class, so Korean films have undoubtedly taken the place of class representative.
We copied the homework of the class representatives for many years, and the result was not good in the test.
But just like the Chinese fans who have played badly in the national football team will also shout and cheer.
Over time, it is hoped that the overall quality of Chinese films will also be worthy of its own box office volume.
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