A movie with extremely confusing values, you don't know what is reasonable, and you don't know what the author wants to assert.
As a former angry youth and hot-blooded teenager, I am not opposed to using film and television works to express the accusation of the dark reality, and of course I have no intention to denounce terrorists for the platform of justice, or to criticize some of the author's values that are inconsistent with mine.
I just want to say that no matter what the film wants to express, the director didn't express it well.
The director used a very realistic method to shoot this film, but left many unexplainable flaws. The tactics of terrorists cannot be explained at all, or in the first half of the movie, there are a lot of suspense about the mysterious and omnipotent terrorists, which makes you can't help but wonder who they are and how they did it. When you watch it, the movie doesn't bother to explain why, it seems like it's the way it should be. The storyline of the entire film is directly cut in half because of this contemptuous attitude.
The movie chose an interesting topic, but in the end it just sketched the villains in a hasty manner. The characters are heavily masked. Whether it is the president, secretary, police chief, TV station chief, or anti-terrorist police officer who has not come forward, they cannot support the role of a villain, because their villainy is too simple and childish, as if in a fairy tale. like the Great Bad Wolf. You say it's human nature? This is not human nature, and human nature is not that simple. It is just that the director set up the bad guy in order to set up the bad guy, which is as thin as the human-shaped target on the shooting range.
Let's talk about terrorists, you can only see the blood of a middle-aged teenager, but you can't see his thinking about the dark reality, and he doesn't have the wits and courage that is one foot high and the devil is ten feet high. The halo-like setting of the protagonist (you can never catch me and I have a way to put bombs anywhere) repeats the appeal like a repeater over and over again. So, can this kind of character stand up to the biggest villain (or decent) role in the film?
This is why I have basic requirements for the logic of the film. If you make cartoons and make heroes, it doesn’t matter if you have many flaws, and I’m even less likely to pick faults, because it’s a movie like a fairy tale. But if you want to accuse reality and reflect human nature through movies, and use a documentary-like setting such as real time and real place, you should not take such a perfunctory attitude.
Movies may have grand visions and deep aspirations, but in the end, only movies like children's movies were made, and all characters, plots, and values could not stand up to scrutiny. The author's depth of thinking is far from being able to support such a theme. This is not the attribute of a so-called real and profound film, so there is no need to compare it with Korean classic movies, nor is it qualified to compare. Those films that become classics are not as naive as this one.
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