The family consists of a father, an eldest son, a second son, a daughter, and a granddaughter.
My father is a typical Korean citizen. He runs a small business on the banks of the Han River. He struggles to support his idle son and granddaughter. Although he is old and solid, he is kind and amiable. As a parent, he maintains the affection of the family.
The eldest son, Park Kang Doo, is a middle-aged man living at the bottom of society. A lot of age, still wearing a small yellow hair, single, with a daughter, relying on the old father to run a grocery store to support. Lazy and stupid, not getting enough sleep all day, and stealing squid from guests. Anyway, if I had such a son, I would definitely regret not finding a wall to solve him.
The second son, Nanri, is the only college student in the family. The interviewer should be a shrewd and capable young man, but because of the experience of participating in the student movement, he can't find a job and borrows alcohol to relieve his worries every day. His lines were: I dedicated my youth to this country, and in the end I couldn't even keep my job. Similar to whether I went to college, or college went to me.
Daughter Nanzhu is amazing. People in the national archery team who care about sports should know the level of the Korean women's archery team, and their status is similar to that of Chinese table tennis. It's a pity that this daughter is always slow and even a bit roundabout, even during the competition. She loses the chain at a critical moment, and her best result is the third in the country.
Granddaughter Xuan Shu is a good student, kind, strong and brave.
The long-awaited monster finally appeared. It looked familiar. It had a long flexible tail, like a huge mouse with fins. No wonder it stayed in the sewer all the time. He came out to eat people in broad daylight, and even packed them away when he couldn’t finish eating, his appetite was surprisingly good.
The family encountered monsters, and the granddaughter was kidnapped, but still alive. So the whole family unites to find the monster, fight it, and rescue the child. This is the story line of a typical monster movie.
A storyline like that wouldn't be Bong Joon-ho's style, and a monster created by imitating Hollywood stunts wouldn't be enough to be the box-office hit of the 2006 Korean movie. Although the love storm of Jack and Ruth in "Titanic" swept the world, they did not compete in "Life and Death" in South Korea. The people of this country proved their determination to revitalize national films with their actions.
In humor and warmth, it reflects a sincere attitude to life and a deep reflection on reality, and expresses such a theme with the method of monster films. We have to express our heartfelt gratitude to our neighbors in East Asia for having such a film and film environment. Envy and respect!
In the movie, the government is a symbol of incompetence, weakness and ignorance. They will only blindly obey the country that has troops stationed in their own country. They lie to the people, they are indifferent to life, and they even regard the people as the enemy.
However, the great leader Chairman Mao taught us: the people, and only the people are the driving force of historical progress.
The family was quarantined as the source of the virus infection, and the confused eldest brother Kang Doo was even used as the host of the virus, and was almost autopsied for it. It was later proved that the so-called virus did not exist at all, but when Kang Doo received a call from his daughter and reported the news that her daughter was still alive, no one believed that no one would pay attention and no one helped. Therefore, for the sake of the children, the adults of the whole family began to flee.
The state apparatus and power appear vulnerable in the face of the family's common enemies. Escape seems a little easy, and then, a tragic, warm, funny and tragic rescue operation unfolds. The old father died in Huangquan, the second son was betrayed by an old friend, and the daughter committed the old problem of grinding. Monsters are harder than government troops. deal with.
However, man is sure to conquer the sky, and the monster was eventually eliminated by them. In the final battle, everyone overcomes the weakness of their own humanity, Nanri makes a weapon out of a wine bottle, Nanzhu decisively shoots the arrow in his hand, and Kang Doo is a hand-knife monster.
But her granddaughter Xuanshu was still dead. In order to save a child younger than herself, when the monster opened its bloody mouth and swallowed it, she held the little boy tightly in her arms, just like using her body in an earthquake. Great teacher who protects his students.
In the face of disaster, the real heroes are these ordinary people. They do not have noble sentiments and great beliefs, all they want is to do their best to protect and rescue their families and those around them. In the face of the sudden cruelty, the people facing the disaster may be stronger than you and I imagined.
At the end of the film, Kang-doo adopts the surviving little boy, and they eat traditional Korean food together, outside the window, in the darkness, as if something is watching them, Kang-doo picks up the gun and prepares to fight. What director Feng Junhao wants to express is more about culture and values. As an audience, what can you see?
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