What to see in the cinema on February 23–25
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Film critic Mikhail Trofimenkov: “It’s either an earthquake, or a meteor shower, or heavenly punishment. Simply put, everything around collapsed very spectacularly in smoke and flames. Maybe only in Seoul, maybe throughout the Korean Peninsula, maybe all over the world – who cares. And only the apartments proudly stick out among the hot ruins, and in the background something flares up and explodes again and again from time to time.
It is more correct to see this apocalypse not as fear of natural disasters: Korea is generally an earthquake-resistant place. It is rather a projection onto the modern well-being of South Korea of the genetic memory of the monstrous civil war of 1950–1953 and the equally genetic fear of its repetition.
Then Seoul, Pyongyang, and all other large populated areas were literally wiped off the face of the earth. Now the fear of a possible nuclear exchange between North and South is regularly supported by the media. And the search for survivors among the ruins in the film by Um Tae-Hwa certainly refers to the screen mythology of war cinema, and not some kind of “Wars of the Worlds.”
Well, okay, it collapsed like that. Survivors, first hoping for help from the army, the Ministry of Emergency Situations or doctors, and then losing their illusions, are forced to organize themselves. In the French version, in Niklu, it is based on racial principles. Whites are drawn to whites, Arabs to Arabs, Afro-French to Afro-French. And, of course, inevitably one ethnic mafia cuts to pieces with another, and having dispatched the antagonists, proceeds to self-destruction.
Korea is a completely different calico. Ethnic unity. Therefore, the “strangers” for the residents of the apartments are not the hypothetical Chinese or Malays, of whom there simply are not enough numbers in Seoul, but those who “come in large numbers” from the neighboring buildings. Survivors like themselves, but deprived of shelter and food. It’s as if brothers through misfortune become their worst enemies.”
Read more about the film in the Kommersant material. “Tenants with Foulbrood”.
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