Wonderful Days
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Wonderful Days Wonderful Days - The Days of Hope Sky Blue |
| Original title | 원더풀 데이즈 ( Wonderful Days ) |
| Country of production | South Korea |
| original language | Korean |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kim Moon-saeng |
| production |
Lee Gyeonghak Hwang Gyeonseon |
| music | Won Il |
Wonderful Days ( Hangul : 원더풀 데이즈 Wonderful Days ) is a South Korean science fiction - animated film from the year 2003 .
action
The film is set in the year 2142. Human pollution has led to a multitude of environmental disasters and has decimated humanity. An elite group of scientists and other intellectuals has built an isolated, high-tech city called Ecoban on an island , which is actually a gigantic organic factory for cleaning the air. In order to exist, Ecoban needs a lot of energy, which it only draws from this cleaning process.
Ecoban's privileged residents are not the only residents of the island. A group of refugees has also settled on the island. They live in a ghetto because they are denied access to Ecoban because of their contamination. The residents of Ecoban treat these Marrians like second class people whose only reason to exist is to toil for them. This becomes clear at the beginning of the film, where a number of Marrians die only because the rescue of an Ecoban technical installation is put above their lives. The Ecobans can behave like feudal lords because they are much better equipped than the Marrians.
In such conditions, it is not surprising that displeasure has spread among the Marrians and a small resistance group has formed ready to offer violent resistance. But that's not the only threat to Ecoban. The much greater danger for Ecoban is Ecoban itself. Natural processes and the metabolism of the organic city Ecoban have cleaned the air to such an extent that this success threatens the very existence of the city, since it depletes the city's energy source.
Over the decades, the leaders of Ecoban have got used to their feudal lordship and have long since forgotten their original mandate to make the earth habitable again. To secure their benefice, plan to contaminate the entire area around Ecoban. They consciously accept that all Marrians will be killed in the process. With such an initial situation, the situation can only escalate.
History of origin
With a production cost of US $ 30 million , Wonderful Days is the most expensive animated film ever produced in South Korea. In the production of the film were traditional 2D - Animation , 3D - computer animation and miniature models used. A great deal of effort was also made with the sound, for example, specially made sound recordings of real motorcycles in all possible driving situations were used to sound the animated motorcycles.
publication
The film premiered on April 26, 2003 at the Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema in Canada. In the following months it was shown at several other film festivals, including the 2003 Cannes International Film Festival and the 2004 Sundance Film Festival . On July 17, 2003 Wonderful Days was released in Korean cinemas.
In Germany, the film is available on DVD in an edition on which Wonderful Days and, in Korean, Wonderful Conversations (아름다운 이야기) can be read. The DVD not only includes the theatrical version, a director's cut that is seven minutes longer and a DVD with interviews with the makers, but also contains a complete soundtrack and was released on June 2, 2004.
reception
At the Gérardmer Film Festival 2004 the film won the Grand Prix in the animation category. The main prize also went to a Korean film, A Tale of Two Sisters by Kim Ji-woon . At Fantasporto 2005, Wonderful Days was nominated for Best Film , but could not prevail against Vincenzo Natalis Nothing .
Kevin Thomas wrote in the Los Angeles Times on December 31, 2004: "Like many other Asian science fiction anime: an astonishingly imagined future world populated by one-dimensional characters, caught in a hackneyed plot." ("Like a lot of other Asian sci-fi anime: a stunningly imagined world of the future populated with one-dimensional characters caught up in a trite plot. ")
The film magazine VideoWoche wrote about Wonderful Days : “In the first full-length big-budget cartoon from the peninsula, 'Matrix' and 'Mad Max 2' meet 'Romeo and Juliet', when a comparatively simple end-time story takes its predictable course in sometimes enchantingly beautiful pictures takes. A tip for Eastern and Anime fans without a doubt. "
Web links
- Wonderful Days in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wonderful Days in theKorean Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Wonderful Days . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2004 (PDF; test number: 97 534 DVD).
- ↑ Entertainment - entertainment, movies, tv, music, celebrity, Hollywood - latimes.com - latimes.com
- ↑ Wonderful Days: Amazon.co.uk: Il Won, Sam Spiegel, Kim Moon-saeng, Park Sun-min: Movies & TV