The IMF foreign exchange crisis in South Korea in 1998 affected fishermen. This is the background of the film "Sea Mist". The story is adapted from real events. As a rule, as a Korean film with a realistic theme, it will eventually point its finger at the government. Moreover, one of the producers and screenwriters of this film is the famous director Feng Junhao of the black government. However, "Sea Mist" "A new way, different from the past, it took a brush with the government, trapped a group of ordinary people in a special environment, exposed their desires, and showed their behavior of struggling and biting for their desires, which has become a major feature of this film.
The beginning of the film is the scene of the crew of the "Advance" working. They perform their respective duties, the division of labor is clear and they cooperate with each other, overflowing with the warmth of harmony, like a big happy family. Except for the end, this is the only bright scene in the film. . The boss of the ship who returned from the sea has nothing to gain and cannot afford to repair the ship. The ship that a lot of people make a living from is facing scrapping. The only way is to raise a sum of money to buy this old ship. In the first ten minutes of the film, the reason for going overseas is explained. By the way, the family background of the two protagonists is also mentioned. Dong Shi (Park Yoochun) lives with his grandmother, lives in poverty and is forced to make a living. home. Captain Jiang returned empty-handed and bumped into his wife who was selling her body. Surprisingly, in the face of his wife's ridicule, he did not raise an angry hammer, but chose to swallow his voice. It seems that his wife's behavior has gotten him some kind of A degree of acquiescence, in such a family, anyone would be disheartened.
Their mission this time is to send a group of stowaways into South Korea. In the middle of the film, the ship was supposed to pass the card safely. Unexpectedly, the stowaways died in the fish tank accidentally due to the leakage of poison gas. Facing their death, the crew panicked. Yu, showed more indifference. This is an unexpected turning point. There was no expected confrontation between the stowaways and the crew. Their unexpected departure can be said to make most of the violence in the second half of the film based on sexual desire. On, it is simplistic and crude, and the tension is out of balance. "Sea Mist" "plays several roles", not only to create a group portrait, but also to highlight the key points. If the attack is too broad, it will lose its strength, and if it is too wide, it is easy to overlook the flowers, and the image of the six people on board is basically Maintaining the status quo, without ups and downs, makes the viewability of the film plummet.
"Sea Mist" and "Yellow Sea" are similar in that they all show the tragic fate of a group of people behind the times. The taxi driver Jiu Nan in "Yellow Sea" is actually a tragic hero who is at the end of the road. Captain Jiang's body , I can also smell a trace of this. When the "Advance" was about to be submerged, he muttered to himself and hurriedly saved the sinking ship. In this scene, we seem to forget the ferocity of him when he hacked people with an axe. Look, turn to pity him. For a long time, what he was obsessed with was the glory of a captain who had passed away, and what he tried to save was the identity of a captain who could change the fate of the crew, and the era he lived in seemed to have abandoned him.
What the sea fog represents is the human nature when the moon is dark and the wind is high, and it is also the unknowable fate of a group of people behind the times. However, as an Olympic bid film, it is still a little thin.
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