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After watching "Train to Busan", watch " Seoul Station ". This kind of back-to-back game viewing experience is also unique. But unfortunately, I don't like "Seoul Station" very much. When watching it, I couldn't help but want to drag the progress bar several times and join the ranks of the world's film history. As a zombie-themed movie under the same background setting, "Seoul Station" appears in the form of a cartoon, which does not mean to evaluate it, and needs to hold another set of standards. During the viewing process, I kept thinking that this movie in the cartoon seems to belong to the category closer to the movie itself. Disasters are triggered in peace, spread slowly, and escalate. At the same time, the film adopts two lines, which finally meet and end.
"Seoul Station" roughly tells the story of the night before the departure of "Train to Busan" at the Seoul subway station. But after a little thought, the two films should not have a plot story connection. If you follow the story line of "Seoul Station", then, whether it is an underground subway station or a high-speed rail station on the ground, in fact, after one night, it has been occupied by zombies, and the military has also implemented martial law to surround and kill without mercy. To say that the two movies are really related in time, then the KTX of "Train to Busan" cannot start at all. In terms of characters, you can also understand that the tramp who ran on the train of "Train to Busan" escaped from the story of "Seoul Station", but it can only be such a brain-filling plot. As for Shen Eun-kyung, the first woman who was infected and transformed in "Train to Busan", it is really difficult to explain that she is the heroine of "Seoul Station". Although both of them have long legs, they are dressed differently. What's more terrible is that in the ending of "Seoul Station" that most people see, she has become a highly aggressive zombie. Therefore, she couldn't get on the car at all (at least it was impossible to get on the car and observe it for a while). Because the reversal at the end of "Seoul Station" is too dark and distorted, some people understand it as a big dream after the heroine is in a coma. Otherwise, there's no way to explain how boyfriends and dads achieved the never-successful GPS location to find someone. The flaws in "Seoul Station" are obvious at a glance. For Chinese audiences who have experienced countless ACG cultural influences, its rhythm is slow, the style of painting is short, and there is too much nonsense. In addition, the protagonist is not a civilian hero, but more like a homeless refugee who shouts and screams. people despise. But in the play, the story of "Seoul Station" is established. The homeless and homeless people hated by normal people are the origin of the zombie infection. In essence, the heroine is also a wandering woman with nowhere to go. The hope that she masters the survival skills of slaughtering zombies is in conflict with the character's escape position. Setting such a pitiful, hateful and nowhere to escape character is exactly what Yan Shanghao has always been pessimistic about. In "The King of Pigs", after the male protagonist is an adult, he is still a waste scum who can't raise his head in front of the president, punching and kicking his girlfriend. There is a cavity of anger, nowhere to burn. Whether the ending is a dream or not, the heroine of "Seoul Station" cannot avoid the final fate of being infected. Because no matter the boyfriend or the father, they are the overlapping characters who use, oppress and exploit the heroine. She became a zombie monster and was forced by her surroundings - from her original family to her temporary family.
When the movie went from the public place of Seoul Station, it was impossible to fall into a model room with a strong sense of fantasy. The object that the director wants to criticize is actually already visible at a glance. On one side, there are high-rise buildings and magnificent buildings, and on the other side are the displaced and homeless. Humans are often the most overlooked beings to violent machines and state institutions. Including the police or teachers, Yan Shanghao often thinks that they are the coercive accomplices of the evil system. When the alley was blocked, an uncle Xie Ding suddenly jumped out and made a class hatred begging remarks. The intention was indeed too obvious. Especially for viewers who have watched "Train to Busan", you should disguise it. Shouting like this, let alone zombies, it's a normal human who wants to fuck you. In general, the theme of "Seoul Station" is the first, hoping that the bottom-level zombies will sweep everything and destroy the harmonious Seoul, but it has not dealt with what a zombie film should do. A strong sense of rhythm, the positive side of human talent, the urge to fight zombies... it doesn't do well. These are the things that the live-action movie "Train to Busan" is doing.
In particular, the heroine once again carried forward a major law of zombie movies: all the characters who are confused in zombie movies often do not have any experience in watching zombie movies. This created countless problems for their survival, and also made all the audience anxious for them. It's so sad. Therefore, be sure to recommend relatives and friends who have not seen zombie movies to watch and learn to enhance their chances of survival in the future. However, "Seoul Station" is also well understood. What Yan Shanghao is actually doing is an independent animation, there are various shortages of resources, and no one takes over the filming. As a last resort, he took out another script to the producer. Then, and then there is the "Train to Busan" you see.
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