When a high-mortality infectious disease spreads across the world, panic should be the manifestation of the vast majority of countries, cities, communities, individuals, and even unrest. This film uses relatively "restrained" storylines and character performances to show the state of various groups such as officials, medical workers, rumour-seekers, and ordinary people. "Restraint" has the following points in the whole film:
1: The amount of lines is not large, and the focus is on showing behavior
Two: Highlight individual behavior, not group gatherings and riots
3: The actors in each line have an average role, and there is no absolute protagonist. The panorama shows the occurrence and prevention of the epidemic
Four: The relationship between the characters is simple and clear and not complicated: father and daughter, lovers, husband and wife, colleagues,
Five: The symptoms of the disease are not excessively manifested, and the "morbidity-death" is very fast, which also reflects the high mortality rate of the epidemic.
Six: Do not express personal emotions deliberately, such as fear, anger, sadness, and emotion, but most of them are fleeting
Seven: Focus on scientific research prevention and control measures, including isolation measures, virus analysis, vaccine research and development experiments, vaccine distribution, etc.
Eight: There is no responsibility for deliberately exaggerating the source of the spread of the "virus", the outbreak of the epidemic is a problem faced by all mankind
In general, because of the restrained presentation of the whole film, the audience's emotions will not fluctuate greatly. The behaviors in the film that are triggered by values such as freedom and equality, personal heroism, and procedural fairness make people feel very warm, but they persist. Time is short. So from the perspective of storyline, character performance and emotional experience, it is normal to give a movie a 3. And what I like is the relatively restrained part of this movie, especially watching this movie during a special period, it will not aggravate depression and panic (another Korean movie, the actor makes people panic when he coughs), instead " The plot of "Forsythia Interpretation" can also improve your IQ a little!
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