Just like in the game world, zombies come to the world silently, and the panicked players have exhausted their strength to run around. Escape is the most important thing. I will be careful. , not only to avoid the pursuit of bloodthirsty zombies, but also to face the sudden departure of family members, lovers, and friends, and suddenly become lonely. The problem is that the splendid metropolis turned into ruins overnight. The plot is definitely not an exaggeration. This year's raging lung cancer has driven us to feel that the glamorous international city has been transformed into a dead city that is almost destroyed. It only took one night.
The Korean zombie movie "#ALIVE", which was newly released on Netflix recently, tells such a story. Zombies that appeared without warning broke the silence of the city. Junyu (played by Liu Yaren), a game otaku who was isolated from the world, together with his hard work despite difficulties. Yoo Bin (played by Park Shin Hye), who created his own way of life, experienced hope and despair again and again, communicated and encouraged each other through radio and other means in isolation and helpless, and survived with the belief of "must survive".
The outline of the story concisely reflects the movie "Big World, Small Angle", focusing on the interactive story between the survivors. The survivors are not just ruthless characters who are brave and ruthless, and are born to save the world. They are just two people who are afraid of being killed by zombies. , Ordinary citizens who never leave their homes, the integration of zombies into the worldview promotes the development of relations, and it is obviously different from the big scene of the isolation theater "Zombie Peninsula", which pursues continuous gun battles and tumbling cars for three and a half weeks.
The lucky surviving citizens are forced to stay at home alone. The movie takes the game otaku Junyu played by Liu Yaren into the title. The otaku who is playing the game suddenly finds that the world has changed. At a loss, the zombies do not give any breathing space to fight directly. Junyu He naively completed the killing skills he learned from the game world. The first half was almost a one-man show by Liu Yaren, but he successfully played the role of this cute otaku. During the release of the movie, the epidemic was raging, and the audience cut into the story from an interesting perspective like a real person who observed strangers living alone during the epidemic.
There is no climax in the plot of staying home alone. The screenwriter carefully designed a plot of climbing out of the balcony, making the audience sweat for Junyu first, and then he rushed out of the door and was good at using the corners of the floor to hide, although the plot was too dramatic. , the motive fails to justify itself, but it creates a good thrilling effect at a limited cost.
The screenwriter deliberately portrayed the loneliness and unhinderedness of citizens under the ravages of zombies, amplifying the sense of urban desertification, and therefore delayed the appearance of the heroine. But it seems powerless. The description of the desert feeling is overshadowed by Junyu's exaggerated behavior, such as yelling at the zombies, and the design of falling down the firearm is quite deliberate. The heroine played by Park Shin Hye, You Bin, appeared in time, successfully saved Junyu, and also pulled back. A story that is about to fall into a tedious direction.
The story of the otaku and the girl is timeless. Although the simple and honest Junyu and Youbin are separated by a long distance, they can get along easily, naturally, warmly and movingly. With mutual support and encouragement, the two lonely hearts can achieve greater success. The courage to continue to survive and resist, Junyu finally dared to step out of the house to find food.
Even though the zombies are only the background characters supporting the hero and heroine, the "character design" of the zombies retaining their original identity skills is different from the zombies in the past zombie movies and has no features. Among them, the behaviors of "fire brigade zombies" and "door security guards" are amazing.
A bland story always needs a climax. In the last 30 minutes, the far-fetched motives of the two lead to a far-fetched climax. They dig their own graves, and zombies naturally emerge. Knocking down zombies is a weapon called "Infinite Protagonist Halo". No matter how cheap the current protagonists are, they seem to have the indestructible body of King Kong and are haunted by zombies but will not be bitten, and zombies do not have any "features", which is a waste of a playful setting.
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Perhaps considering that zombie movies always need to talk about human nature, at the end of the film abruptly comes a bundled Play that reflects the dark side of human nature, slowly throwing out a false proposition, and abruptly intending to change his mind, the ending commits the same mistake as "Zombie Peninsula", Why did he suddenly lose his fighting spirit when he deliberately created a "pseudo-climax" with unclear motives? The climax and the ending perfectly spoil the decadent, warm feeling that the movie established at the beginning, why did the helicopter rise from the low to the roof? Do you think that the roars of the two are not harsh enough to attract more zombies to the helicopter passing by at low altitude?
The finishing touch of the movie is the last sentence: "You must live", which is caused by the people on earth who were born in troubled times.
The film is available on Netflix.
Rating: 5.5/10
Date of viewing: 08/09/2020
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