Dec 6, 2017
It may be about zombies but the director seems to take a zombie apocalypse to bring out a social scope on the matter; South Korea’s homeless predicament is a ubiquitous theme throughout the film, prostitution secondly, youth runaways. Centerpoints which all come down to a social class theme.
At least that’s what I thought of it.
Homelessness was tied to all the prominent characters from what I saw as I scrubbed the video to the beginning, going back before finishing the last act, pausing at the each character’s first appearance onscreen. Their surroundings tell all and are primary motivation for specific characters decisions; where they
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are at first, and what one could infer from the scenery at that moment pretty much paints the picture of the character.
It should be noted that this isn’t some crappy z-flick movie best left in a trash bin. The plot is quite good, it definitely plays off at the end, leaving one to think about what was and what ended as the movie drew to a close.
Just like the rest of the z-flicks, it’s not a happy story - but it’s one that puts out its key punches in way unique from most of the rest.
It’s a pretty well polished film, great music and ambience, with a distinct animation style, great rendering if not a bit over the top character gesturing. With that, the film smoothly strong-arms the characters’ emotional state onscreen most of the time.
Just one quick thing to point out about the criticization of the graphic animation. It was well done imo, the style probably wasn’t in many people’s tastes. I could only count of two short and quick scenes where I was there were a few more lines of details instead of, say in one, where the floor was just a flat green one color.
More importantly, in addition to the animation expressing the character’s emotional state, it does extremely well detailing the bodies of the animated cast. The physical appearance of a character’s body should be kept in mind as the film moves on and when extra detail is shown of or when the camera centers in on a part of the character. I thought it was very emphatical keying into the those cues. The background and scenery art’s relationship to the film’s theme of home also became very well emphasized as one of our mains reacted with the surroundings at the last act. Again, here the film gives an image to allow the viewer to contemplate the events that had past in the film to the current moment on scene.
To summarize my take on the art a bit, I saw the graphical representations to be quite detailed and refined for most of the time in the film. I thought at times the visuals, and the little details especially, should be definitely taken into account in order to sink into the atmosphere of the movie. The blurring, animation and style of locomotion could be offputting at times, akin to Knights of Sidonia’s style but any negative aspects in the film’s art is offset by the important details put in scene.
On how the film kicked off and died slowly then lingered after:
I thought it was unique a intro and background-reveal to one of the main characters, although I was a bit annoyed with the first act’s prime character’s method of speech, a different character from former first described.
Finally, I thought the ending was just lovely for me. It hit the right notes for me.
And on a musical perspective, it hit the best note with its song at the very end. I was out of breath and forgot to take one in. Stunning.
- - - This isn’t the average zombie movie. And if one like this type of horror, it’s well worth a watch and it may leave some nice surprises that gives more than one what was initially looking for - - -
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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