Door lock
| Movie | |
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| German title | Door lock |
| Original title | Door lock ( 도어락 ) |
| Country of production | South Korea |
| original language | Korean |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 102 minutes |
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| Director | Lee Kwon |
| script | Lee Kwon, Park Jung-hee |
| production | Yi Jae-min |
| music | Dalparan |
| camera | Pak Jeong-hun |
| cut | Kim Sun-min |
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Door Lock is a 2018 psychological thriller by South Korean director Lee Kwon . It is a remake of the Spanish film Sleep Tight (2011). Gong Hyo-jin can be seen in the lead role .
action
A woman comes home to her apartment. The light does not work. That's why she turns on the light with her smartphone . In doing so, she discovers that someone was or is in the apartment. Suddenly she is attacked. Without going into further detail, the film jumps to the beginning of another plot.
The bank clerk Gyeong-min lives alone in a small one-room apartment on the sixth floor of a ten-story apartment building. During the night she hears someone trying to get into the apartment by entering a code on her digital door lock. When the person appears to be gone, he opens the door and looks around. She finds a cigarette butt and calls the police. But the police say there is nothing they can do. Nobody broke into the apartment and their suspicions are insufficient as evidence. In addition, she has called the police several times without ever being able to pick up a trace.
At night a man can be seen in Gyeong-min's apartment while she sleeps. In the morning she always has a strange feeling and doesn't know where it's coming from. At work, a customer comes to your place who has a problem with a transfer. Both live in the Bongcheon area of Gwanak-gu . This is how the customer tries to establish a relationship. Finally he asks her if she would have a coffee with him. A disagreement arises and Gyeong-min's supervisor intervenes. The same man came up to her a few days later at a bus stop and was violent. Suddenly Gyeong-min's supervisor rushes to help her, who happens to be nearby. He's driving her home. He later comes to her apartment because she forgot her wallet. When she goes into the bathroom, she notices that the toilet seat is up. She suspects someone was in her apartment. She suspects her superior because he knew which apartment she lives in. She runs out of her apartment and calls the police.
When Gyeong-min arrives at her apartment with the police, her supervisor is dead. Inspector Lee suspects her. Gyeong-min allegedly hired a third person to kill their superior. However, the police have no evidence and based on their history of attempted break-in reports, their story seems coherent. Although Gyeong-min was previously awarded a good job, her contract with the bank is not to be renewed. But she receives support from her friend Hyo-ju.
When Gyeong-min falls something, she finds a digital key card. This one is not for your apartment. She goes through the apartments in the building and comes to apartment 701, one floor above her apartment. A Kang Seung-hye lives there. But it is not there. Gyeong-min asks Hyo-ju to find out something about her. She takes care of incoming and outgoing payments on Ms. Kang's card and finds that she buys something for 3,200 won in a convenience store at the same time every day . You go to this store and wait for someone to buy something for that amount. When a woman does this, they secretly pursue her. However, they both lose sight of her and want to look for her separately from one another. While Hyo-ju tracks down and questions the persecuted woman, Gyeong-min finds a house with some of the 3,200-won food jars in front of it. She tries several standard codes on the door lock and ultimately tries the same one that her apartment has. With that she can open the door.
In the house she finds an unconscious woman whose legs have been removed. Suddenly someone walks into the apartment and Gyeong-min hides under the bed. The man says he invented a new victim right below her apartment. The man now also wants to cut off the woman's arms. Gyeong-min runs away, but the man chases her. It can disappear behind the shutters of a house. But the man tracks them down. Suddenly Hyo-ju rushes up and attacks the man. But the man defends himself. A police car approaches and the man escapes.
The police later find an arm with Gyeong-min's business card. Kim Kee-jung, Gyeong-min's unruly customer, is immediately suspected. He is said to have killed Kang Seung-hye and attacked Gyeong-min. However, the evidence is insufficient and he is released again. Meanwhile, Gyeong-min moves. She receives a surveillance camera in the shape of a penguin from Commissioner Lee for the move.
Kim Kee-jung poses as her cousin with the caretaker of the old apartment and asks about Gyeong-min's new address. Suddenly, Gyeong-min receives a call from Hyo-ju's phone. But there is a hooded man hiding in Hyo-ju's apartment. He numbs them with chloroform. Gyeong-min runs to Hyo-ju's apartment as quickly as possible. Before this she is attacked by Kim Kee-jung. But the police also come and arrest him. Gyeong-min opens Hyo-ju's door and finds her with her leg severed. This can be successfully operated on in the hospital.
The next day, Gyeong-min meets the caretaker of her previous apartment in a convenience store. He also buys something for 3,200 won. Gyeong-min becomes restless. Suddenly she receives a call from Inspector Lee that Kim Kee-jung was not the perpetrator and that she was killed. She should stay home and wait for him. But as she finds out through the surveillance camera, the perpetrator is already in her apartment. He can overpower them and take them to a disused hotel building. However, Commissioner Lee can locate this. Through their notes, they track down the caretaker Han Dong-hun and see the hotel as a possible shelter. Detective Lee is able to track down Han Dong-hun, but is killed by him. In a final confrontation, Gyeong-min manages to defend himself and kill the caretaker.
reception
Door Lock opened in South Korean cinemas on December 5, 2018 and reached a total of over 1.5 million visitors. The film celebrated its German premiere at the Fantasy Film Festival 2019 . The film received positive reviews and has an aggregate score of 7.3 out of 10 on Rotten Tomatoes with an acceptance of 100% from 5 reviews. According to Pierce Conran from ScreenAnarchy , the story of the Spanish original is completely revised in Door Lock . The dark lighting and the claustrophobic interior ensure that the audience can never feel safe. Park Jung-hoon's precise camera work and Dalparan's unsettling background music add to the tension. At the heart of the story, however, is Gong Hyo-jin, who makes her figure palpable through her natural charisma. Door Lock is probably the best Korean thriller of 2018. Adam Patterson of Film Pulse gives the film 7 out of 10 points. He succeeded, the only weakness being the inability of the police depicted in the film.
Web links
- Door Lock in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Door lock in the Korean Movie Database (English)
- Door lock on HanCinema
Individual evidence
- ↑ Door Lock (2018). In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC, accessed on August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Pierce Conran: Review: DOORLOCK, Tense Korean SLEEP TIGHT Remake, Goes the Distance. In: ScreenAnarchy. December 8, 2018, accessed September 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Adam Patterson: Fantasia 2019: DOOR LOCK Review. In: Film Pulse. July 24, 2019, accessed September 16, 2019 .