Hide and Seek - No Escape

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Movie
German title Hide and Seek - No Escape
Original title 숨바꼭질 ( Sumbakkokjil )
Country of production South Korea
original language Korean
Publishing year 2013
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Huh boy
script Huh boy
production Kim Mi-hee, Kim Mi-jin
music Cho Young-wook
camera Kim Il-yeon
cut Kim Jae-beom
Kim Sang-beom
occupation

Hide and Seek (Original title: 숨바꼭질 ) is a South Korean thriller from 2013. Huh Jung wrote the script and directed.

action

The Korean family man Seong-soo, who owns a café, suffers from delusions as well as from cleaning, washing and order , but otherwise leads a middle-class life with his wife and two children.

His brother's caretaker contacted him one day because Seong-chul disappeared without paying the rent. Seong-soo is supposed to vacate the apartment, which is located in the waterfront. To his surprise, he finds clothes and drugstore items that indicate the presence of a woman. He starts research. While he questions the neighbors in the run-down apartment block one by one, a fiasco ensues. A young mother (Joo-hee) freaks out when she hears which tenant it is about. He allegedly molested her 6-year-old daughter in the past, so that she is still afraid today. Seong-soo also discovers tiny symbols carved into the wall under each name tag, which he learns to interpret thanks to his talent for combination during his tour. The symbols indicate the number and gender of the tenants in each apartment.

Meanwhile, his wife and children find themselves in a dangerous situation at home. A figure disguised with a motorcycle helmet lies in wait for them in the underground car park and tries to break into their luxurious apartment by force. Their calls for help and the neighbors who appear then drive the attacker to flight.

This dramatic event subsequently exacerbated Seong-soo's compulsion to wash and his nightmares. Memories of his childhood come back. He and his brother have had a terrible experience. At the age of seven, he betrayed his brother and has been plagued by guilt ever since. Seong-soo fears his brother's revenge.

He searches Seong-chul's small apartment a second time. This time he finds a camouflaged passage to the neighboring apartment on the glazed loggia. As soon as he discovered a woman's corpse wrapped in foil in the neighboring apartment, he was suddenly attacked by the masked man in question, but was able to flee, seriously injured. He finds refuge in the nearby apartment of Pyeong-hwa and her distraught mother Joo-hee. Your mother is working, says the girl. When Seong-soo sees the little ones' playroom full of toys and cell phones, he feels uncomfortable. You'd think this was a pocket thief's or shoplifer's secret storage room. His own cell phone is also included. Then Seong-soo discovers another corpse in the closet, again tightly wrapped in cling film. Now he realizes that Pyeong-hwa's mother is the real culprit, who does her deeds in a motorcycle outfit. She murders without scruples in order to enable her daughter and herself to lead a comfortable life. She took Seong-soo's apartment keys and credit cards when he left his coat unattended in the room. This makes it easy for them to gain access to Seong-soo's apartment. There she beats Seong-soo's wife down and makes her home with her daughter. The little one is enthusiastic about so much luxury. She is used to frequent changes of residence because her mother occasionally takes over the apartments of her victims.

Still in the waterfront, Seong-soo fears for the life of his family and drives his car to his apartment building. In the apartment he engages in a duel with the perpetrator. When she chokes him in the showdown, he feels compelled as a last resort to set things on fire with a lighter that is barely accessible in order to distract the madwoman. Joo-hee actually lets go of him and dies in the flames that spread rapidly. The arriving police can only draw a balance sheet.

Seong-soo moves to the USA with his family in order to gain the greatest possible distance. Before that, he buries his brother, whose body was wrapped in cling film and stored for weeks in the closet of the murderess Joo-hee.

In the last scene you can see that Pyeong-hwa is hiding in the closet of the renovated luxury apartment, into which new residents are moving in.

useful information

The film cost the producers 2.5 billion won (the equivalent of around 2.5 million US dollars) and grossed around 35 million US dollars in cinemas.

In 2016, a Chinese-language remake was released with the same English-language title ( Chinese  捉迷藏 , Pinyin zhuōmícáng ), which only slightly modified the plot.

criticism

"The nightmarish, psychologically complex shocker is told so densely and grippingly that you can hardly believe that you are looking at a debut work here."

- Cinema

"Hide And Seek works pretty well as a technically successful study of interpersonal gaps, the staging is aimed from the beginning on discomfort and initially gently, then vehemently increasing tension and actually has a surprising plot twist that pulls the screw in the direction of madness."

- Jochen König

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clearance Certificate for Hide and Seek - No Escape . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 605 V).
  2. ↑ Hide and Seek stays No. 1 with surprising one. Korea Joongang Daily, August 27, 2013, accessed May 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ http://www.schnittberichte.com/review.php?ID=5361
  4. ^ Box Office Mojo
  5. ^ Hide and Seek. JP's Box Office, accessed May 20, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Hide And Seek (2016) review , asianfilmstrike.com, January 10, 2017
  7. ↑ Hide And Seek , mydramalist.com
  8. ↑ Chinese Remake of Korean Thriller “Hide and Seek” opens in China , asianmoviepulse.com, November 7, 2016
  9. ↑ Hide and Seek - No Escape. Cinema.de, accessed on May 10, 2015 .
  10. ↑ http://www.booknerds.de/2014/12/hide-and-seek-spielfilm-dvdblu-ray/