A disaster movie that's not like a disaster movie

Assunta 2022-04-19 09:03:02

A South Korean tsunami disaster movie released in 2009. The Hollywood movie "The Day After Tomorrow" was joined by the special effects team. It was the fifth movie in South Korea with over 10 million viewers, and it was considered a very powerful movie in that year. It is reported that it cost 14 billion to build.
However, the prelude is too long, and the film spends nearly 80 minutes telling the relationship between the various characters, the foreshadowing of the characters' emotions, and the conflicts and contradictions between them. After that, it really entered the climax of the plot, and the tsunami finally appeared. The special effects are decent, but there are only a few shots of the full tsunami, and the end of the movie has already entered the end of the movie. But don't underestimate these shots, they are worth 14 billion won! The protagonists survived without spending too much energy.
Of course, there are also tears. The sacrifice of the doctor and his ex-wife to protect their daughter is really touching. The other pair of lifeguards and his savage girlfriend were a bit far-fetched, not to mention the inexplicable beginning of their relationship, and even the sacrifice of the lifeguards seemed to be deliberately made to create tears of life and death. At the end, I felt that the focus of this film was not the tsunami, but the easing of the relationship between the characters in the film. From the original confrontation, hatred, quarrels, and contradictions, all of them were finally resolved. The director was creating contradictions from the beginning, and with the help of the tsunami, the contradictions were finally resolved. The city is ruined, but the people are better. Tsunami is not completely harmful and useless! (Jin Yuzhen was so cute when she was a child, and she is also a rare child star who has acting skills from childhood to adulthood. Is time a butcher knife or a beauty agent?)

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Tidal Wave quotes

  • Helicopter Pilot: We need to adjust those settings, this doesn't look right.

    Emergency Room Intern: James, James! James! We need to look at this. Something strange.

    [He shows the man the paper]

    Helicopter Pilot: Oh my god!

    Emergency Room Intern: Why am I jumping to this? Just listen up! Move the people somewhere higher okay! It's the Tsunami!