South Korea's "Parasite" shined brightly at this year's Oscars, winning four heavyweight awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best International Film (Best Foreign Language Film), and Best Original Screenplay.
It can be said that this "Parasite" is enough to make South Korea blow for a hundred years.
After this time, Korean films will go to the international stage more frequently. This article is about an ambitious disaster film from South Korea.
Speaking of Korean disaster films, many people may think of "Extreme Escape", "Train to Busan", "Tunnel" and other familiar films.
And at the end of 2019, there is a newly released Korean movie, which is also very suitable for our current situation. It is:
"Baitou Mountain"
The film, co-directed by Lee Hae-joon and Kim Bing-soo, was released in South Korea on December 19, and currently has a box office of over $60 million, making it one of the most popular films in South Korea at the end of 2019.
First of all, the film has a bursting cast.
Ha Jung-woo, one of the male protagonists, has created countless classics and starred in many well-known movies such as "Horror Live", "Miss", "The Chaser" and "The Yellow Sea".
Lee Byung-hun, the second male lead, is known as "the most perfect man in Korea". In addition to the popular "Common Security Zone" and "Saw the Devil", he has also entered Hollywood and participated in "Terminator: Genesis" and "Special". Troops series.
Ma Dongxi, the third male protagonist, can be described as a "professional villain" and has captured a group of audiences with "Bad Guys", "Bad Guys" and "Criminal City".
The heroine is not far behind, there are the popular Bae Suzy, and the acting school Jun Huizhen.
It can be said that several leaders in the Korean film industry have been invited.
Second, the storyline of the film is quite fascinating.
The film mainly tells the story of a volcanic eruption caused by an earthquake in South Korea. Ha Jung-woo, the commander of the special forces team, and Lee Byung-hun, a spy, fall in love and kill each other.
Ha Zhengyu's wife Suzy is about to give birth, Ma Dongxi has transformed into a geology professor, and cooperated with the chief secretary of civil affairs, Quan Huizhen, and finally the four of them resolved the crisis together.
The story is thrilling and exciting, with laughter, tears and reversal.
So let's talk about the two advantages of the film first .
First, disaster + action + military film, with many elements, looks super cool.
The film has a sense of doomsday crisis brought about by natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions.
There are also extreme drag racing, exciting gunfights, room escape, water escape, tense hand-to-hand combat, and none of the action elements fall.
More China, the U.S., South Korea and North Korea fell in love with each other, snatched nuclear bombs, and if they disagreed, they would cause a big explosion.
In the end, brotherhood, husband and wife, father-daughter relationship were also staged, which increased the depth of the relationship.
In the 2 hours and 8 minutes of the film, all kinds of elements required for commercial films have been collected, which is dizzying and refreshing.
Second, the special effects scenes are okay, worth five dollars.
As far as the film is concerned, the special effects scenes are okay, not five cents nor fifty cents, but five dollars!
When Ha Zhengyu was driving to avoid the earthquake, the debris of the building would fall, and the smoke would be billowing, like that.
The special forces were choked by volcanic ash and the plane burned and fell, and the explosion scene was not bad.
The magma splashed by the volcanic eruption, the huge wall of waves hit by the tsunami, the collapsed bridges and the broken walls everywhere.
Can't help but think of the combination of "The Wandering Earth" + "Sky Fire" + "Doomsday" + "2012".
It can be seen that the film shows the ambition to make a good disaster blockbuster, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a South Korean Hollywood blockbuster.
Since it is a South Korean Hollywood blockbuster, it naturally brings out the biggest flaw of the film - the problem of plot setting .
The plot of the film is too big and old-fashioned, and a lot of logic is irrational.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 occurred in North Hangyong, North Korea, which will trigger a volcanic earthquake throughout the Korean Peninsula. It is expected that the affected area of the entire Korean Peninsula will reach 84%
That is, South Korea was swallowed by the magma of the volcanic eruption.
So what is the solution in the play?
Go to North Korea and steal the nuclear bomb they gave to the United States, and use the nuclear bomb to blow up the volcano to drain and release the pressure!
Do you dare to say that the borderline is getting more and more? Nuclear bombs are meant to be stolen? This volcano is said to explode?
Oh, he really did it for Ha Zhengyu and the others.
Whether it was Ha Zhengyu driving to avoid the earthquake at the beginning, or Lao Mei's body stroke marksmanship, the teammates appeared to resolve the crisis in time, and the male protagonist's plug-in opened from the beginning to the end.
South Korea was saved by Ha Zhengyu's straw bag team, and there was no backup.
The spy Lee Byung Hun said "Korea eats jujube pills" one minute before becoming a national hero the next.
Whether it was a boy or a girl, in the ending of the Korean TV drama Tea Mother, FLAG flew up, washed white, but also got a lunch.
Wife Pei Xiuzhi's baby must be born, and there must be a two-line narrative.
It can be said that everything is so easy to guess, there are many bugs, it seems to be an old-fashioned brainless movie.
Seeing this, you may have doubts, so is it necessary to recommend such a film?
If you look at it as a disaster blockbuster, it seems less than satisfactory.
But if you pay attention to the advanced black factor, then the fun is endless .
The so-called drunkard's intention is not to drink, and disaster films do not focus on disasters. The film can be said to be black to the end for China, the United States, North Korea and South Korea .
Since you want to hack others, it's easier for people to accept it first.
First, it's self-defeating.
The geologist played by Ma Dong-seok is a Korean-American who predicted the outcome of the volcanic eruption three years ago and no one believed him.
But it wasn't caught as spreading rumors.
People are plausible about their transfer to the United States:
"It's because of an incompetent government that can't even decide its own destiny."
South Korea listens to the old beauty, then I will be the old beauty, and I will be happy.
Ma Dong-seok, who wanted to run away, was forced to stay by the chief secretary of the Blue House Civil Affairs, played by Jeon Hye-jin.
The reason for staying was that the principal of Ma's school was corrupt, and he had to stay to be investigated.
"The tuition fees are so high that there is nowhere to spend, and I have to run various businesses."
Tsk, that's what I said, let's take a look at Lenovo's "The Furnace".
After Ma Dongxi finished hacking the school and scolding the government, we directly saw the South Korean President appear.
South Korea is at stake, the president convened an emergency meeting, and the success rate of the nuclear bomb volcanic drainage is only 3.48%.
When Mr. Han heard this, he said, this is similar to the support rate of my election campaign that year. In the end, I also won 42.7% of the vote.
The voter turnout is heartbreaking.
Therefore, he instructed Ma Dongxi to increase his success rate, let it go, or steal!
So they discussed to steal the nuclear bomb that North Korea gave to the United States to blow up the volcano.
Lao Mei learned that of course she disagreed, and even if the president resigned, they had to blow up the volcano to protect South Korea.
"The Curse of Qing-Wadai" is on again!
Next, continue to black the special forces responsible for stealing the nuclear bomb, which can be said to be the straw bag commander and his pig teammates.
He Zhengyu, who was ordered in danger, was the captain, and his subordinates were cowards who had not fired a gun for several years.
As the captain, He Zhengyu had no plans for the mission, so he took a step by step.
The demolition team is also stupid, and they fire at every turn, and they have never done the technical work of dismantling nuclear bombs.
The 6 soldiers had a gun, and Li Bingxian, who was locked in the prison, was so frightened that he shouted a few words, and it took two or three attempts to open the door.
Is such a frustrated Korean soldier really good!
When Lee Byung-hun heard about South Korea's plan to steal a nuclear bomb and bomb the volcano, he couldn't help but sigh:
"That's why capitalism is scary. The imagination is overdone."
Is this a self-defeating movie that opens up the brain?
Secondly, it blackened the Northern Dynasty again .
When disaster is imminent, President Han will take the blame and resign to protect South Korea.
The entire territory of Pyongyang was reduced to scorched earth and fell into a state of anarchy.
Ha Zhengyu's team came to North Korea to steal nuclear bombs from the North Korean prison, and it was like no one else.
A group of people came to the vicinity of Hamhung City in South Hamgyong Province and saw the huge stone statue of the North Korean leader collapsed to the ground.
"Ouch, the leader finally lay down in peace."
Again, it also blackened the old beauty.
When disaster struck, the United States issued an emergency recall order to Americans stationed in South Korea, while a group of South Koreans expressed dissatisfaction.
"You are violating human rights in America."
When Laomei learned that South Korea was acting secretly, as a country with the right to fight in wartime, it would not tolerate South Korea's operation.
The US military ordered that "any means are allowed" to stop it, that is, it doesn't matter if the Koreans are killed.
The film is undoubtedly saying, look at the hateful face of the US emperor!
In the end, it also came after us.
South Korea's volcano is about to erupt. In the name of managing the crisis in Changbai Mountain, our senior management has assembled 30,000 troops in the border area.
And the North Korean intelligence agent Li Bingxian, who was wooed by South Korea, as the North Korean secretary in Beijing, is a double agent.
In the beginning, helping South Korea with bombs in North Korea was actually to capture Ha Jung-woo and the nuclear bomb, so that we could get evidence and witnesses to break the non-aggression pact.
In Korean obscenity, "someone wants to harm me" all the time.
In addition, the image of the Chinese people in the film is also full of slots.
Extremely lame Mandarin, the appearance of the underworld boss, you tell me this is a Chinese?
The biggest highlight of the film is the four-way confrontation near the end .
The Chinese humiliated the North Korean Lee Byung-hun, and the Americans came to intervene.
Next, South Korean Ha Jung-woo turned on the detonator, scaring both China and the United States to retreat.
So Ha Jung-woo and Lee Byung-hun blew up the volcano with a nuclear bomb, and Lee Byung-hun sacrificed himself to protect the peninsula.
Finally, at the Korean Peninsula Reconstruction Committee, Ma Dong-seok returned to South Korea after hearing the call of the motherland, and shook hands with the Secretary-General to make peace.
This is not to say that China and the United States stand aside, black and black, South Korea and North Korea are still brothers and two relatives!
In general, "Baektu Mountain", in the guise of a disaster film, expresses the dissatisfaction of South Korea's internal interference by the old and the United States in a straightforward manner. While full of a deep sense of crisis, it finally staged a show in the form of inter-Korean friendship. Out of the call of nationalism .
And Ha Jung-woo and Lee Byung-hun are full of love, and the wonderful rivalry makes up for the weak script of the film to some extent.
After the dazzling action scenes, the film also contains reflections, full of Korean flavor .
An unforgettable scene is when Lee Byung-hun found his daughter but found that she had become mute.
"The child can't speak anymore. Half of the people in the village are like this. Who can speak when something like this happens."
Perhaps, do not break out in silence, die in silence.
In the end, the world was saved, and the child would continue to talk.
Bluestone Film Editorial Department｜Chenchen
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