Since the Korean movie "Train to Busan" became an annual hit, Korean disaster movies have become an international business card for Korean films.
Not only the "Tunnel" starring Ha Zhengyu is on fire, but also the "Pandora" directed by Park Zhengyu, which has only been released in South Korea since December last year, has also become the tenth place on the domestic box office list this year, surpassing The hit animation "Kung Fu Panda 3".
This is the first film in the history of South Korean films about the explosion of a nuclear power plant, which can not help but remind people of the fear that the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in neighboring Japan brought people five years ago.
As a result, it was about to be released and encountered an earthquake. It happened that there was also an earthquake scene in the film, but it also created a psychologically tense atmosphere for the audience.
It's better to take this atmosphere and see what's so good about this frightening film.
The origin of the title "Pandora" is exactly what the little girl in the title said, a nuclear power plant is like a box that will cause serious trouble when opened.
The story that the film wants to tell is actually a catastrophe caused by the nuclear power plant and its facing explosion and radiation leakage, but the authorities delayed the repair time due to interests.
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I still remember the geography book we recited when we were young, saying that nuclear energy is a kind of clean energy. Now, in terms of its reaction to the radiation of waste to the human body, the word "clean" is too early.
However, human beings are always short-sighted. As long as there are immediate blessings, they always selectively ignore the disasters that may occur.
The people who live near the nuclear power plant are consciously divided into three factions. One faction marches every day. Like the radicals in life, they are always treated as bastards when nothing happens.
The other faction occupies the majority of life. As long as the "calamity is imminent" has not happened, everything is beautiful, just like the ignorant little male protagonist when he was a child.
Just like the mother of the male protagonist, even if her husband and eldest son have died in the nuclear accident, she still does not want to send the younger son there, after all, there is no money, "Don't say it's a power station, it's useless to let him work in hell. Said," blindly believe that nuclear power plants will not easily happen.
Another example is the management of the Prime Minister's Group, who only have personal interests in their eyes. When they talk about the nuclear power plant, the Pandora's box, it always makes people grit their teeth.
When the disaster happened, it was a matter of course that they said that the evacuation plan was "unfeasible". They wanted to cover up the fact of the disaster for their own interests, and delayed evacuation of nearby people, which eventually led to a major accident.
Treat nuclear power plants as a small matter, the prime minister who "focuses on the big picture"
Middle-level managers who deceive top and bottom, disregard other people's lives for their own interests
In the face of an emergency situation, he has been waiting for the on-site person in charge of the commander above.
The president who was kept in the dark at first and didn't understand the disaster situation and would only curse in anger
Another faction is the male protagonist who has been afraid since his father and brother were killed in the nuclear power plant accident and wanted to escape from his hometown, the stationmaster who knows the loopholes in the management of the nuclear power plant and has a sense of justice, and the high-ranking president who wants to do something but is powerless. group.
The male protagonist, who gets up every day to measure the amount of nuclear radiation, hurriedly wants to escape when he encounters an earthquake. He is a representative of the innocent people in this country.
Of course, people are greedy for life and fear of death, but if a disaster occurs, even the staff members will run away, and other people who don’t know it will die.
However, the technicians hid in the control room, called the workers to do it, and did not tell the workers the dangers of the work, so the workers ignored the danger and completed the work quickly, but the result was that the pipeline pressure was too large and the pipe burst directly.
The film's only director with positive energy from beginning to end risked reporting the hidden problems of the nuclear power plant to the president, but was demoted and investigated; as soon as he encountered an earthquake, he immediately rushed back to the nuclear power plant to guide the disaster relief work, and immediately issued accurate instructions.
If there are more such people in this country, even if it encounters a nuclear power crisis, there is nothing to fear.
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This group portrait of the characters is rich and three-dimensional, and the performances of the actors have their own characteristics. The slight deficiency is that the plot changes are too blunt. In the morning, I was thinking of the male protagonist who escaped. Just detonating explosives to save the family makes people look in a trance.
But this little flaw can't completely hide the idea expressed at the back of the film:
"Actually, we all thought about it. We have already warned them that it is very dangerous, and we didn't even listen to it. Now something has happened. At first, we pretended that nothing happened and kept it from everyone. Now that someone is dead, we let the people finish , does that make sense? Why should we, die for this bullshit country, crazy, stupid? But, but now, we can use our family as an excuse to run so far to avoid radiation, but the road is blocked, cars They can't even move. They are walking on both feet. We, if we don't stand up, our family will die. Even if we are wronged and sad, we have no choice but to go. No one will go in except us. ."
In the face of national justice, such an analysis of the hearts of volunteers who are willing to die can't help but make one's nose sour. They are just going to die for their families. This great but not very noble reason has become a powerful reason for accusing the government of darkness.
As the saying goes, it takes a thousand days to keep soldiers, but after the disaster, 11 fire teams and 12 rescue teams came to the gate of the nuclear power plant, but they couldn't get in. Everyone is afraid of death, what is the use of people spending so much money to support them?
Nuclear power is not something that will burn out on its own.
The disaster was so severe, but the people in power still only focused on concealing the people. Therefore, they missed the effective handling method again and again until the core melted down and the power station exploded.
Human rights are nothing but empty talk in times of emergency.
The president's words seem so powerless in the disaster
Finally the nuclear power plant exploded. This film, which took four years to prepare and produce, has more than 800 concept maps and an outdoor set of more than 5,000 pings to restore the nuclear power plant one-to-one. The shock of the explosion is quite impressive.
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Of course, as a standard Korean disaster film, the black government still does not forget to embellish the brilliance of human nature, such as the heroism of the male protagonist and the volunteers in the second half, such as the husband going back to find his wife and children during the disaster, such as the grandmother's care Living with the young grandson, and the president's daughter who went back to help the suffering staff.
Fortunately, there are still those who love them, even if disaster is imminent, there is still a breath of hope.
Just like Pandora's Box, after opening all evil, disease, pain will come, there is still hope in the box.
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