In fact, not only in South Korea, but also in the entire East Asia, the golden age of the underworld has passed. This film is more like a nostalgia for the gangster spirit of the late last century. It is like covering a coffin with soil. When I saw the last corner of the coffin was buried in the mud, that kind of complicated feeling.
Therefore, the whole film is almost shrouded in a tone that lacks a sense of reality, and only when the male and female protagonists have subtle feelings, is it occasionally replaced with a slightly brighter background color.
The appearance of the male protagonist Yan Taigu's sister and niece is the most common Korean humor in Korean movies with a little witty drama. However, this witty and humorous atmosphere was soon ended by the scene of the car accident and turned into a drama. A grief of revenge. But almost everyone who has watched too many Korean gangster movies can guess that it is very likely that the pretentious President Yang did it, but the male protagonist actually believed President Yang and went to the boss of the Beicheng Gang to seek revenge. This kind of burying the plot arrangement, let alone in South Korea, where the film industry is developed, even in mainland China, it is already a bit out of place.
The heroine Quan Rubin came out with a deep sense of world-weariness. She knew that she would not live long, so she closed her emotions. Jeon Yubin's cold expression fits the character's setting very well, but to be honest, many Korean actresses, and even ordinary women with relatively online looks on the Korean streets, many of them have such a cold and unhappy look, and their expressions are just like that. Three words "don't bother me". Compared with the female characters who screamed or were overwhelmed by the sight of blood, the character setting of Jeon Rubin is also more in line with the calmness when he finally killed the gang with the gun group.
There is basically no unexpected plot in the second half of the film, and the development of the plot is almost as expected by the audience. There are no obvious problems, but it is ordinary.
During the rapid economic rise of East Asia and Southeast Asia in the last century, almost every fast-developing country was accompanied by more or less underworld gang problems, and also formed a underworld gang culture with its own national cultural characteristics.
In the 1990s, relying on the cultural opening policy of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan underworld gang films suddenly emerged and became the leader of East Asian gang action movies at that time. However, with the slowdown of economic development in the later period and the disconnection of film and television talents, as well as people's daily resistance to underworld gangs, it is difficult for Hong Kong and Taiwan gangster-themed films to introduce new ones and gradually fade out of people's attention.
The success of the baton is because of the lifting of the shackles of the film censorship system of Korean films, one after another excellent films appeared "War with the Gang", "New World", "Despicable Street", "Yellow Sea", "Jiangnan 1970", "Inside People" " "Lone Man" and so on, let the audience who like this series of films have new expectations after the films of Hong Kong and Taiwan fade out.
But no one is good without a hundred days. With the development of South Korea's social economy and the adjustment of its economic structure, gangster movies will eventually become less innovative like Hong Kong and Taiwan in the past, and gradually fade out of the audience's sight.
As shown in this film, when a group of gang members appeared at the airport of Jeju Island, shouting and making trouble, it was difficult for other passengers at the airport to have too much curiosity or surprise, and more It's as indifferent as watching a group of real estate agents advertising along the street. Of course, it is also possible that Jeju Island has lost a large number of Chinese tourists, and it looks more and more empty.
At the end of the film, at the uninhabited seaside, Quan Rubin pointed his gun at himself, and then the camera changed, and finally there was a gunshot in the lonely sound of the waves. Remembrance of glorious times.
2021.4.13 evening
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