he belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every
wickedness.
Some people say that "Seoul Station" is a prequel to "Train to Busan", but it is not true. Although it is the same director, the stories are independent of each other, and "Seoul Station" is far more realistic and darker than "Train to Busan".
As a flaw in theatrical films, the release of "Train to Busan" must have trade-offs. The plot of criticizing the government's darkness is insinuated, and the ending of the film also preserves warmth and hope for human beings. However, as an animated film, "Seoul Station" has more vividly rendered the ugliness of human nature.
The entire movie limits the characters to the people at the bottom of the society. The animated heroine is a prostitute who fled from the red light district, and lives with her boyfriend who has achieved nothing. After the rent arrears, the boyfriend even pimped the heroine. The virus first broke out among the homeless people in the underground passage of Seoul Station. When the homeless people sought help from hospitals, civil servants, and the police, they were all rejected because of their low status.
In order to prevent the spread of the virus, the government quarantined ordinary people in the neighborhood, and fired water cannons and then headshots at residents who wanted to "escape".
During the whole process of the heroine avoiding the zombies, the only thing that supported her was the search for her father on the other end of the phone, and when the pimp who finally pretended to be her father wanted to rape her, it also destroyed her only inner softness: Her father fled long after learning that she was in debt. The disillusioned heroine dies and turns into a zombie to attack the pimp.
The movie seems to foreshadow that if you want to rise up against fate, you can only be reduced to inhumanity, and in life, you will only be weak to be slaughtered.
In the ending of the movie, no one who succeeded in escaping, whether it is an egoist who regards other people's life as a must, or someone who sacrifices himself to help the elderly, the weak, and the children, will all be eaten and chewed. What is justice is no longer meaningful.
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