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comes, and you must stay isolated at your house or you will get eaten by them. What will
you do ?
So, in this time, im gonna talk about the movie #ALIVE. #ALIVE was realeased on Netflix on
Tuesday, September 8 2020. But, they have realeased it before on cinema in South Korea on
June 24 2020. Starring park shin ye, the famous actress who plays the Heirs, the legendary
K-Drama. She plays as kim yoo-bin, and yoo ah-in also a famous actor plays as oh joon-wo.
--99This movie has Zombie Thriller genre. Directed by Cho Il-Hyung, producted by Zip
Cinema and Perspective Pictures, distributed by Lotte Entertainment, and also for a fact, this
movie is based on the original script "#Alone" of Hollywood screenwriter Matt Naylor.
What if you wake up, as usual, doing the everyday routine, and suddenly a zombie
apocalypse comes, and you must stay isolated at your house or you will get eaten by
them. What will you do?
So, in this time, I'm gonna talk about the movie #ALIVE. #ALIVE was released on
Netflix on Tuesday, September 8 2020. But, they have released it before on cinema
in South Korea on June 24, 2020. Starring park shin ye, the famous actress who
plays the Heirs, the legendary K-Drama. She plays as Kim yoo-bin, and yoo ah-in
also a famous actor plays as oh joon-wo. This movie has a Zombie Thriller genre.
Directed by Cho Il-Hyung, produced by Zip Cinema and Perspective Pictures,
distributed by Lotte Entertainment, and also for a fact, this movie is based on the
original script "#Alone" of Hollywood screenwriter Matt Naylor.
#ALIVE tells about Joon woo, a boy who lives with his parents and a sister. Joon
woo spends his days playing video games and live streaming. Someday, when his
family went out, his online friend urged him to turn on the TV.
The news emerges about a mysterious disease that is spreading like a wildfire and
causing infected people to eat each other. The government lost control and things
got even more chaotic.
Joon woo looks at his balcony and surprised by the situation. He sees people eating
each other. There is a strange voice, joon woo go check outside of his apartment,
there's his neighbor who is trying to break into his unit. Turns out, the neighbor is one
of the infected humans. He tries to bite Joon woo, luckily, he successes to kick him
out.
Joon woo immediately barricaded himself in his apartment unit. He followed the
instruction to stay at his house. He also posting a rescue request on social media,
following the other survivors. Within days, the environment had been filled with this
mysterious infection. Day by day he runs out of water, food, even electricity !
When it comes to a zombie movie, one thing pops out in my mind. Survive. #ALIVE
successes to portray it. Wondering will he still #ALIVE or no. also, to stay isolated at
home for weeks without any preparation, will he die because of the zombie, or even
because he cant find something to eat. The movie uses a chronological plot and they
tell the condition day by day. We can see that Joon woo is getting more frustrated
day by day. He even tried to hang himself on the 20 th day, until a girl found him and
stop him to kill himself. They became friends and try to survive together.
The movie serves the tension very well. Even tho they didn’t put a lot of dialogues in
the movie, I can still understand how is the character's feeling. and of course,
because the actions of the actors is really good as well. The color grading is on
point, it doesn’t look like the other zombie movies that have a bold dark mood. We
can really feel that This movie has a modern but still terrifying vibe. We also served
with the looks of the zombies. Looks very realistic and….gross. The movie uses
conventional kinds of stuff and not many weapons. That's what makes the movie
feels more related to our everyday life.
Also, This movie doesn’t have that much of a heroic fight scene with the zombies.
So, for you who likes “ Train to Busan” or “Kingdom”, maybe you will find this movie
feel a little boring. #ALIVE really focused on the character. They display how the
characters survive without internet, connections, and the struggle being alone in the
middle of the chaotic phenomena.
The two different characters which are kim yoo-bin and oh joon-wo successfully
blend together. Their personalities that are very different to each other makes the
movie even more exciting. I also really like how they focused on the character and
how will they survive instead of focusing on the heroic scene. Combined with how
they used the technology that we use daily. Moreover, the character are potrayed as
a teenager, really related to us.
But just a little detail, there's a scene when kim yoo-bin planted her plant, I thought
the plant would have an important role to the story, but no. it doesn’t have any
important role to the story. That would be cooler if the plant had that role.
For conclusion, this movie is really good and fresh, you might be interested if you
are looking for a thriller movie but not that heavy. And one thing that makes the
movie even more special Is how This movie really clicked on us because this movie
may be related to the current situation where COVID 19 came in and we gotta stay
at home.
From my perspective, the Director, Il Cho is trying to tell us who watches this in the
middle of the pandemic too that we are not alone. He persuaded us to keep fighting
and don’t give up hope. Also, enjoy every moment we have with our family while we
have it. Cause we never know when will le lost them.