The title is just a sentence that I want to say about some domestic movies compared to "Baekdu Mountain". Before the 21st century, anyone who said that domestic films were inferior to Korean films would definitely make people laugh out loud. It's hard to make people laugh to say this again after the 21st century. As our close neighbor, Korea has many similarities in its humanities and history with ours. Therefore, it is difficult for movies not to compare domestic movies with Korean movies. Just like taking exams when you were a child, it doesn't matter how much you score, what matters is how many scores the kids next door to your class scored.
As a commercial film, "Baekdu Mountain" is very successful. Maybe you will find it a little boring to copy the Hollywood routine. But we can also copy it, but why can't we move it? There are so many reasons. It is said that it moves well, because most of the character setting and plot development in the film are basically standard Hollywood routines. It is said that the whole film is very successful, because they copied Hollywood and added some things of their own, such as the nuclear issue on the peninsula, the current situation of South Korea in international relations: a metaphor sandwiched between China and the United States (the unarmed river Zhengyu is surrounded by dozens of guns from China and the United States, and he relies on a nuclear bomb to protect himself), at the end of the film, the fantasy of the joint construction of North Korea and South Korea, and the routine satire and smear of the government. These are other people's own things, so that these have basically become some basic must-have labels for Korean movies involving political aspects. While people are constantly learning, they are also constantly changing and innovating. And what about us? When an excellent film is released on the front foot, there is a film on the back foot that is "same" and extremely bad, such as a certain fortress.
From the perspective of commercial disaster films, "Changbai Mountain" is really good. However, in terms of its plot and its rigor, it seems relatively general, and there are not many special effects scenes. The scene of the broken bridge is still at night, and the special effects are not very clear. But then again, if a film brings together Ha Jung-woo, Lee Byung-hun, Ma Dong-seok, Bae Suzy, Jeon Do-yeon, etc., why care too much about the quality of its plot? Not to mention this is a commercial disaster movie. Coupled with Ha Jung Woo and Lee Byung Hun's rivalry, it's fun! It's just fun, and at the same time can't help but feel sorry for yourself.
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