alive
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | #alive |
| Original title | #Saraitda (# 살아 있다 ) |
| Country of production | South Korea |
| original language | Korean |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Cho Il-hyeong |
| script | Matt Naylor, Cho Il-hyeong |
| production | Lee Yu-jin, Oh Hyo-jin, Kim Sae-mi, Kim Sae-bom |
| music | Kim Tae-seong |
| camera | Son Won-ho |
| cut | Shin Min-kyung |
| occupation | |
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#amLeben (original title: # 살아 있다 , intl. title: #Alive ) is a zombie film by the South Korean director Cho Il-hyeong (Il Cho) from 2020. The screenplay comes from the American screenwriter Matt Naylor and was written together with Cho for adapted the location of South Korea. The leading roles are Yoo Ah-in and Park Shin-hye .
action
Junu is a vlogger and spends a lot of time at home playing computer games and producing video content. He lives with his parents and sister in an apartment complex. One day the three of them are out and Junu is vlogging home alone. His viewers suddenly notice strange incidents and urge him to turn on his television. There are reports of riots and a virus that is spreading. The infected people behave aggressively and attack without prior provocation. Junu looks out the window and witnesses the panic. He sees how a schoolgirl bites what appears to be her mother. Junu now hears screams in the hallway of the apartment and opens the door briefly to look out. But a neighbor takes the opportunity to quickly break into the apartment.
He asks Junu to only stay an hour. But Junu doesn't know him and wants him to disappear. The intruder can negotiate to use the bathroom for a short time. When he returns, his eyes suddenly turn reddish. The same symptoms appear as mentioned earlier on the news. Junu manages to push the infected person who suddenly attacks him outside and quickly close the door again.
Junu still receives messages from his parents saying that they are safe and that he must survive. He barricades himself in the apartment and divides the food. He only has supplies for a few days. One day there is also no more running water. Meanwhile, Junu sees the chaos outside again and again and the zombies pouncing on everything that moves and can be heard. He is also following the situation with the Internet. With his drone he gets an overview of the situation above and below him in the apartment. He also gets a signal there and tries to call his father, but then the battery goes dead.
Eventually a zombie tries to break into the apartment. Although Junu has pushed his refrigerator in front of the door, the zombie succeeds. Here, too, Junu can assert himself by climbing onto the balcony and holding onto while the zombie storms blindly and falls from the railing. But when the zombie moved the refrigerator, some of Junu's supplies were also broken. Over time, he can also receive a message from his parents, where he hears them being caught by zombies. He no longer has a family or food and becomes increasingly desperate. Full of anger he runs outside and can hold his own against a few zombies. But there are too many and he sneaks back into the apartment.
He makes one final farewell video before attempting to commit suicide. After he is about to hang himself, a light suddenly flickers. It marks the word no on a poster on the wall. Junu takes courage and can barely free himself from his noose and sees a woman with a laser pointer in the apartment opposite. Next, the syllables 바 ba and 보 bo are marked for idiot . They introduce themselves with their smartphones and tablets. From now on, Yubin and Junu will meet at the window every day at 7 p.m. Yubin notices that Junu is hungry and tries to get him some food. But she can't throw far enough. Junu uses his drone to create a zip line that Yubin will use to send him food. After eating, Junu notices a zombie has found Yubins rope and uses it to climb up. The table to which the rope is tied tight against Yubin, who loses her consciousness, and finally against the balcony railing. But Junu can distract him with his drone, which gives Yubin the opportunity to kill him.
Junu finally makes his way to another room in search of food. He can find a lot, including a walkie-talkie . He lets some Yubin come across and from now on they can talk on walkie-talkie. Yubin says the eighth floor in his apartment is completely empty. She wants to go there and look for food. Yubin climbs down the apartment and fights the zombies. Junu is impressed, but realizes that she hardly has a chance. So he comes to her and tries to help her. Together they can escape to his apartment on the eighth floor and look for an open door. But they are all locked until a man suddenly opens it.
The man in the mask gives them food and drink. There would be enough before the rescue workers came. Both are relieved, they knew nothing about the rescue measures. But suddenly Junu loses consciousness and Yubin also becomes powerless. The man keeps his wife who has become zombie on a leash in a room and wants to bring her yubin for food. But Junu wakes up and threatens the man with a gun he found earlier. Unimpressed, however, he opens the door after losing the leash in anticipation that his wife is about to shit Yubin. But that could be successful and the zombie is now attacking the man. Yubin can shoot both of them with Junu's pistol.
Next, she wants Junu to shoot her. But then they hear helicopters. You run on the roof and can shake off the zombies. But the helicopters are gone. As the zombies are just about to break through the door to the roof, a military helicopter appears and saves them.
reception
#amLeben came to South Korean cinemas on June 24, 2020 during the corona crisis and reached almost two million moviegoers. The streaming service Netflix secured the international distribution rights and will release the film on September 9, 2020. Kim Boram from Yonhap described #amLeben as a fresh approach to the subject of "being alone". The zombies are fast, similar to Train to Busan or the Netflix series Kingdom .
Web links
- #amLeben in the Movie Database
- #amLeben in the Korean Movie Database (English)
- #amLeben on HanCinema
- #amLeben on MyDramaList
Individual evidence
- ↑ #Alive. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. Accessed August 2, 2020 .
- ↑ #Alive, Starring Yoo Ah-in and Park Shin-hye, Confirmed For September 8 Release on Netflix. In: Netflix. August 24, 2020, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Kim Boram: (Movie Review) New zombie thriller '#Alive' takes fresh approach on loneliness. In: Yonhap . June 16, 2020, accessed on August 2, 2020 .