Seoul's ecstasy night, ghosts and ghosts.
To be honest, I haven't watched a horror movie in a long time. I couldn't help being informed by the Internet, and I walked all the way from Busan to Seoul.
For creatures such as zombies, my concept still stays in the European and American vampire series and Hong Kong-made funny zombie films. And the horror of these two popular Korean films is a species called "zombies". The infected person is bloodthirsty, biting madly, and transmits the virus through blood, making him the next infected person, and so on. A chain reaction spreads like a virus.
Although it is a horror film, "Train to Busan" is actually the kind of typical cinema work for all ages. The closed environment, the protagonist's father and daughter, various characters in the carriage, and looming ghosts are all standard features of commercial horror films.
Unlike a haunted house, which spreads like a virus, the zombies occupied by a street and a hospital are more like a mixture of horror and disaster. The TV screen reported, "There is a riot ahead." The confrontation between normal people and zombies is the epitome of the riot. In the riots, there are those who move forward bravely, and there are those who fight against the enemy, there are those who are at a loss, and there are those who are selfish to sacrifice themselves. The protagonist is a fund manager, an urban elite who pursues egoism. At the beginning, he discovered that there were zombies in the train, and during the emergency evacuation, he taught his daughter not to give the seat to an old man with a sore leg. For other passengers who were about to die, he first considered the safety of himself and his daughter, and did not want to mess with it. trouble. It wasn't until another bulky passenger risked his life to rescue his daughter that he went from being a self-defense man to a hero who protected others. He picked up the bat, slashed the zombies, broke through the siege, and finally escorted the surviving daughter and the pregnant woman (the large wife) away
. It is a replica of the blackened protagonist. It is he who ignores the survivors' cries for help, he is the one who uses others as a backstop, and he is the one who bites the male protagonist in the end. There is no awakening or guilt from beginning to end. It wasn't until he contracted the virus, became confused, and said, "Send me home, my home is at xx street xx", that he realized that he was still a person.
It is precisely because of the existence of this character that some people in the crowd with him defected. "Because you can't save me, my sister died. People like you have no meaning in the world."
In the face of the disaster, the rich and multi-layered group portrait description is the biggest shining point of this film. In the end, the hero sacrificed, leaving behind a daughter and a pregnant woman, which means that the future and hope have not been extinguished. Still a warm ending. It's also huge.
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But if you want to walk back to Seoul from Busan, you will know that the trip to Busan is nothing but a nightmare of hope, and the infection at the Seoul Station is a human tragedy of despair.
Let's look at the characters first. A pair of young men and women live in a small hotel. The girl's occupation is to sell sex under the pressure of her boyfriend. Here is just a hint of the ground floor, and the veil is lifted at the end of the story. Because of the main plot of an old father looking for a lost daughter, you think that there is a warm family behind the girl who loves her parents, but she is just confused for a while. The film unfolds under the dual lines of the father searching for his daughter (while fleeing) and the daughter fleeing. However, the most terrifying thing is not that there is a possibility of encountering zombies at any time, but that it has escaped the pursuit of zombies and the shooting of soldiers, and finally fell deeply into the clutches of "father".
Unlike commercial films that are densely choreographed with horror, this independent animation has a large pause at the end. There was no zombie chasing, no flesh-and-blood biting scenes, the girl fled to a luxury model house in a certain community, went from room to room, confirmed that there were no zombies, and even fell asleep on the desk. Not a single zombie appeared, but it made the viewer's heart rise to the throat. Guess who will be next? is her boyfriend. Great reunion, isn't it? no. The plot begins to reverse. It turns out that the one who is trying to find the girl is not the girl's real father, but a pimp like her boyfriend, a devil who treats the girl as a money-making machine. The girl has been avoiding his tracking, but did not expect to escape the bloodthirsty zombies, and did not escape the human disguised as her father.
Hatred broke out with the virus in her body, and the girl fought back. The bad and the good are all killed by the virus.
Compared with the girl's "father", who scolds her boyfriend as a scum in front of him, he can be considered compassionate. From the girl's dialogue, we learned that her real father was in poor health. You can imagine what kind of family it was, poverty, disease, and lack of education. The girl's previous life was not fundamentally different from the experience of encountering zombies. Zombies eat people, but what kind of invisible mouth is swallowing the youth and life of the girl.
The girl selling spring was killed by human hands, and the uncle of the migrant worker was also killed by human machine guns.
Heroes who save lives in disasters are commercial films. There are no heroes in independent films, only unarmed little people who have to survive. The final picture of "Seoul Station" is that the girl follows the uncle of the migrant worker through the dark subway. This is how a person walks in the dark, there may be light in front of them, but they can't get close. (There is a scene in the film where they walk to a certain stop, and they find that there are all infected zombies there. When they see them, they rush here. Fortunately, They survived through the glass of the track and space.) They can only struggle to move forward, no matter what the road ahead is, they can only continue to move forward.
Originally, there was an animation script for "Seoul Station", but maybe due to limited funds, director Yan Shanghao then threw out a commercial movie script, which is "Train to Busan". I believe that the director has made great efforts to save a fetus who is about to have a difficult birth. My sister thought of giving birth to a pair of babies. The two babies are split like this, and each is beautiful. The real creator should be like this. Do you believe that the director of the acclaimed literary film "The Piano of Steel" used to write the party sketches? Woody Allen, who is determined to make movies until he is 100 years old, first started out as a talk show. Not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of the sellers being stupid. No matter whether it is high-quality or weird, the people who come out are mostly talented, and most of them want to show their talents to people with strong executive power.
Too much nonsense, I want to say, "Seoul Station" really stings me.
ps. Amway's own independent animation is called "Sting Me".
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