From the beginning, new movies on Netflix are Train to Busan When peninsula Writer-director Yeon Sang-ho recalls other sci-fi films, as do many genre films.At least for American viewers, his opening sequence and other moments JUNG_E reminds me of movies like Alita: Battle Angel, Elysiumand other Neil Blomkamp photos Phantom Menacethe sequel to the late Terminator, etc. Salvationand the Alex Proyas version of i robot.
These seeming homages don’t represent a surprisingly curated, uniformly good set of sci-fi classics. Arita great and Phantom Menace While underestimated terminator: salvation Interestingly misleading at best. Taken together, these films may not even be the ones that really inspired Yung, but his contemporary sci-fi films quickly pull from the same source. blade runneroriginal Star WarsWhen alien âA film that suggests a different lineage is something to behold.
JUNG_E It’s also grabby, as it opens with a crackerjack action sequence as mercenary Yoon Jung-yi (Kim Hyun-joo) makes his way through a mob of robot soldiers in a bluish junkscape. The film seems to anticipate this idea as the scenes begin to look more and more like a video game, pulling back to show the heroine occupying a virtual space. In a coma after a battle. Now, a scientist working for a big company is going to put an AI-cloned version of her in the same fight. She hopes some version will find a way to survive it and become the great warrior it takes to win the ongoing civil war.
From top to bottom, there are many traditions. This movie is set in his late 22nd century. Since Earth is uninhabitable, mankind moved into space, where they split into two factions engaged in a seemingly endless armed conflict. It’s just a virtual glimpse of what’s going on. The AI ââproject’s chief researcher is Yoon Seo-hyun (Kang Soo-yeon), who hides the fact that she’s also Jung-yi’s daughter with her taciturn professionalism. Her taciturnity is in stark contrast to the manic and sometimes goofy Sang-hoon (Ryu Kyung-soo). Sang-hoon (Ryu Kyung-soo) is his leader, a team focused more on money, pleasing company bosses, and what he calls “showmanship.”
JUNG_E It opens with that exciting fight scene and closes with a bigger, better action sequence with slightly cartoonish but effective (and appropriately weighted, if you will) visual effects. It’s not an action movie. With long stretches between instances of mayhem, it has a lot of world-building, contemplative drama, and some intentionally undermining both the characters’ and the audience’s expectations of where the story is logically going. Go through plot twists.
Any advance knowledge of the film’s bizarre structure can detract from the gloriously unpredictable sense of cinematic discovery. On the other hand, impatient viewers might be forgiven for assuming that Yeon wandered too far and lost momentum around the halfway point. . Whether in her flashback human form or her present-day robot form, she is the film’s most charismatic character, but her grown daughter Seohyun is intentionally less expressive sooner rather than later. Kang takes time to draw out Seohyun’s emotions.
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Sadly, this is Kang’s unexpected farewell performance. An actress who has been a star in South Korea for decades, died after the film was completedThat sense of loss is about how or when the human brain mimics constructing its own life form, and what that kind of superficial extension of life means to more traditional forms of consciousness. It is eerily appropriate as a material for thinking about what to do.There are also satirical scenes, JUNG_E’Pain of grief grows in the film as it progresses.
By the time it returns to its more epic climax, the film feels more like a genuine hybrid than a tonal whiplash. It’s more than just a design resemblance to the 2004 robot. i robotYung, among other things, feels like he’s made a stranger, more personal companion to that compromising film. JUNG_E There are a lot of spare parts and the occasional jerky green screen effect. But both the robots and humans it assembles move with unexpected grace.
JUNG_E Currently streaming on Netflix.
