"Travel to Busan"--The Weakness of Human Nature

Zander 2021-11-25 08:01:29

Sorry, I am really excited to write this film review. For the first time in my life, I have seen this kind of Asian zombie film. As a person who wrote "Zhong*World War" and "The Complete Self-*Handbook" after watching "Dawn of the Living Dead" ten years ago, it was sealed by Sina. Although such a movie attracted the screen, it was definitely mixed. The South Korean movies gave me memories and reflections. I am not blindly praising and killing, I only talk about the truest feelings. And use a read Carnegie's "The Weakness of Human Nature" as the title. In fact, I have forgotten the content of the book. I just thought that I was in junior high school and felt hopeless in the future. This mood is very similar to the people in the movie.
In fact, I haven't watched many Korean movies in recent years, but I agree that Koreans often satirize the government, humanity and reality. I would also like to mention the Korean drama "Signal" that I just watched, as well as "Horror Live" and "Memories of Murder" that I have watched before, and "Melting Pot" and "Suyuan" that I haven't even dared to watch. I have always emphasized that I am a cold-blooded person, but in reality, I am too fragile to watch pet movies. On the contrary, those fictional movies with sci-fi and horror make me want to stop. This is why I want to watch "Travel to Busan" first. After all, it's just a zombie movie! Speaking of this pure human zombie movie, some of the sections are very similar to the upgrades in the game, especially the section where a few men cross several carriages. The irony is that I know people who play games around me, and even the guys who are still playing headshots dare not watch horror movies. In fact, the zombies in this movie didn't scare me much, after all, they were all brainless creatures. They can't even turn on the switch, as long as they can't see people, they won't attack (the setting in the movie). Their fighting power is not as amazing as expected, and they are also the stature of ordinary people, so the burly uncle can fight a few. They can only use the human sea tactics, and the attack method is a single bite. What really scares me is human nature.
One of the biggest villains is the big-faced uncle in a suit. He is the representative of selfishness in this society. Sacrificing others for oneself, framing others is easy to do. When other people want to save more people, he advocates driving fast, regardless of the life and death of others. Inciting everyone to prevent people from other carriages from coming over, and framed the male protagonist to be infected. Escape from the dead with another mob, and push the opponent directly to escape at the critical moment. To escape for his own life, he would never look at the girl being attacked. Why did the kind train driver save him? Also sacrificed. In the end, the male protagonist was bitten by him ~ he had to put his back on his death. There are many such people in reality, and they are so comfortable with everything they get. Before he became a zombie, he said that his mother was waiting for him to go home, as if it was a touch of warmth in indifference. But in fact, I want to ask his mother how to educate such a person? Did the excessive protection of this child at an early age lead to his selfishness? In the morning, I met such a mother on the bus. She took her child on the bus. Others kindly gave up her seat, but she only let the child sit in her own place, and the child sat comfortably. It seems that if others don't let this seat be a social abnormality. I think of the mother on the train again, her child is already very big, but she still doesn't let go. This seems to be love for children. In fact, these children will not be grateful at all when they grow up. There are such mothers on the train. Two sisters, old ladies, the older sister is very simple, and the younger sister painted very coquettishly. They were all rescued by accident. My sister was in a group of ordinary people who just wanted to save her life. My sister fled with another group of people. The people in the ordinary people's carriage refused to let them come, and because of the time wasted, the sister eventually became a zombie. The sister who saved her life said to herself, seeing you raise a son, all the money will be given to him, you see how you are now, watching the zombie sister over the glass window, open the door~~ So this ordinary The people in the human compartment have also become zombies. . . This paragraph really shocked me. If you can't be a good person, then just become a zombie! This old lady looked like a heroic fighter bombing the bunker, but how helpless and desperate was this move.
There is also the burly uncle, one of the male protagonists who makes people desperate. The uncle has a cold face and has been protecting his wife and everyone, but in the end he blocked the zombies alone for his wife and let his wife escape first. This passage reminds me of having watched "Dawn of the Living Dead". Yes, there are also such bridges in that classic movie. The last few people finally escaped and can leave by boat, but the male protagonist was bitten, so he did not go, but stayed on the shore, looking Waiting for the other zombies to defend him. This picture is too freehand! And those who did the same thing were the tramp who continued to be buggers along the way and the train driver who insisted on broadcasting until the last minute. The actor of the train driver also played "Signal", playing an equally kind but ill-fated father. Even if the fate is reversed, he still wants to kill the person who has not saved his daughter. This is an absolute tragedy. (That face is very sad.) There is also a small actor who plays a daughter, who is a pure white lotus character all the way. Apart from not being in harmony with his father, he is enthusiastic to everyone else. But if you think that the entire train or the entire city has only one child surviving her, her white lotus role is not so commendable. Instead, it was her father, who had complicated emotional transformations along the way, first with a look of ignorance of what was going on, then only wishing her and her daughter to survive, and then to join the battle and finally learn the tremor of the truth and finally release the moment of sacrifice. Makes me feel more real. In fact, everyone was tensed along the way, and the last point of collapse might be the little girl's singing. The song that they wanted to sing to their father became the key to their survival. The film came to an abrupt end at this time~ As a commercial film, this time the Koreans were not too sensational. To express pure love, it just made the boy who had struggled all the way to die under the girl's mouth. Expressing friendship is the unbearable start of the former companions becoming zombies. To express the feelings of husband and wife, but in the end, the burly uncle said what our children will be called in the future. The expression of sisterhood is the look in the eyes. It's a bit too much to express the affection between the father and daughter. The little girl's acting skills are very good, but the deep love of the father is very good. This is the difference between Asian movies and American movies. The same is the tactics of the sea of ​​zombies. I just watched Brad Pitt in "Zombie* World War", and "Travel to Busan" made me remember a lot of people.
Some people say that "Travel to Busan" has dumped our domestic films for ten years, and some people say they are dissatisfied. I can only say that at least there is a category of horror movies. The so-called domestic horror movies are so-called horror movies. The plots of domestic so-called horror movies are all mystery. They often make the kind of shocking sound effects and the face of the protagonist in order to scare people. The behavior is much scarier than the movie. Movies are an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars at every turn, and it is a huge improvement to have a tomb-raising theme. The Japanese "Parasite Beast" will be moved and cut to great harmony. Compared with South Korea, a small country that can make such movies, the same ancestors, but different souls. I think it's more than ten years. But can't our country really make movies with this kind of emotion? I don't think it is. I watched "Nanjing Nanjing" many years ago, and I was equally desperate. The closure of the city, the massacre, and the more terrifying than the zombies are real. I've seen "1942" written by Liu Zhenyun, and the same is true. During the Great Famine, the family fled. The landlord’s father wanted to protect the family, but in the end he was the only one who met a little girl and joined the family. With suffering and despair as a benchmark, the Chinese people’s emotions are the most complicated. It's just that the audience doesn't buy it, or the audience is more willing to look at the illusory rather than the real.
Maybe this is the lack of our education? What we learn in school is to whitewash the history of peace. The school does not teach us how to face a complicated society, how to make a living and save ourselves. We are passing on knowledge from generation to generation. Parents may not be sober minded, so everyone is raging. Therefore, we can only look at human nature from social news. Watching the murderer who has been hiding for decades describe the crime process lightly, and watching the murderer who killed her classmates said coldly, she is unlucky. Looking at the couple who committed suicide after poisoning their children because of poverty, they are still said to be not eligible for the subsistence allowance. I can only ask questions, this is the weakness of human nature, there is no solution.

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  • Augusta 2021-11-25 08:01:29

    Better than the "Zombie World War" in the United States, South Korea reached the pinnacle in the pioneering of the zombie genre, and some sections are almost as ruthless! Finally, if the pregnant woman and the little girl pass through the tunnel, if they meet Ha Zhengyu, then this piece is really made by God! =. =

  • Jeffery 2022-03-22 09:01:33

    This is the most comfortable zombie movie I've ever seen! In the past, watching zombie movies would make people feel bloody! uncomfortable! But this film changed the usual zombie film and added the test of human nature to the zombie film! I think the director is still great! When the little girl finally sang, she burst into tears and swept away the horror of the zombies before! It will make us think after reading it! Every actor in there is doing a great job!

Train to Busan quotes

  • Seok Woo: I'll take you to mom no matter what.

  • Soo-an: Dad, you only care about yourself. That's why mommy left.