This new Korean film "Train to Busan(釜山的英文)" is certainly earning a lot of positive word of mouth and box office success since its debut in the Midnight Screenings section of this year's Cannes Film Festival.
自从今年嘎纳电影节首映以来,韩国新片《釜山行》赢得口碑和票房的双丰收。
Word of mouth:口碑
Box office:票房
Cannes Film Festival:嘎纳电影节
While a zombie-virus breaks out in South Korea, a couple of passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
影片讲述当韩国爆发僵尸病毒之时,几位旅客在首尔到釜山的列车上死里逃生的故事。
Zombie:僵尸
Break out:爆发
struggle to survive:死里逃生
石宇和女儿秀安
The central character is Seok-woo, a man stressed out with problems about his investments business and his divorce. His 9-year old daughter Su-an, feeling neglected, requests her father to bring her to Busan the next day to see her estranged mother. Seok-woo could not say no.
On the same train to Busan as Seok-woo and Su-an, a lady passenger with a bite wound on her legs, collapses and turns into a zombie. As she bites another person, that next person would also turn into a zombie and so on. The fight to survive is now on.
The zombies and their attack scenes were very well-executed with a combination of practical and computer-generated effects. These monsters were very fast-moving and relentless in their quest for human flesh. We breathlessly hang on to the edge of our seats the whole ride.
The father-daughter dynamic between Seok-woo and Su-an is front and center. But aside from it, we also meet a cast of supporting characters on the train whose fates we will be following for the rest of the film.
除了一直被放在核心位置的“父女情结”,我们还能看到一些配角的命运也在影片中得到完整的刻画。
The father-daughter dynamic:父女情结
be front and center:处于核心重要位置
supporting characters:配角
He was able to convincingly portray the development of this uncaring apathetic guy into a hero we could all root for to get through this crisis alive. He was as good in the weepy dramatic scenes as he was in the swashbuckling action scenes.
Kim Su-an is the dramatic core of this film as the daughter desperately reaching out to her jaded father. As a child actress, she held her own impressively among this cast of veterans with her heartfelt portrayal. Who would have thought that the sad little song she wanted to sing for her father would resonate so much?
Ma Dong-seok is a devoted husband and selfless fighter. We see him first as some sort of comic relief only, which made the audience warm up to him. His pregnant wife Seong-kyeong was played by acclaimed Korean indie film actress Jung Yu-mi, conveying strength in her delicate condition.
Another actor of note is Kim Eui-sung, who was totally hateful in his role as the selfish Yong-suk. In total contrast to Sang-hwa, Yong- suk was a man only thought of himself alone, not caring that he actually put a lot of other characters directly into harm's way.
People may dismiss as just being a "zombie film", but it is the drama of human relationships and interactions that rises above the horrific and thrilling carnage. Director Yeon Sang-ho's first two feature- length films ("The King of Pigs" and "The Fake") were both animated films exploring the bleak side of human nature. With his first live action directorial effort, Yeon has created a complete film masterpiece with "Train to Busan." Highly recommended!