write few paragraph on the moral values of the film Train to Busan.
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➡️✨✨Train To Busan was one of the biggest box office successes in South Korea’s history, over 10 million people saw it. Key to it’s success is the film’s balance of high-grade, unadulterated action, and its sensitive, layered character work that personalises the unfolding drama through they eyes of a 10-year old girl who vies for the love of her father. These two sides of the coin belie a third: a searing social commentary that critiques the South Korean social hierarchy.
With the recent announcement of a sequel in the works, Filmosophy is taking a look at what made Train To Busan one of the greatest social commentaries of the 21st century, while simultaneously being a kinetic, edge-of-your-seat action film.
Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) is a workaholic fund manager and absentee father who in a rare act of attentiveness, agrees to take his young daughter Su-an (Kim Su-an) to see her mother in Busan. They board a train along with a pregnant couple, a young baseball team, a pair of elderly sisters, a PTSD suffering homeless man and a decidedly despicable executive named Yon-suk. Travelling with them on the high-speed train is a rapidly spreading virus that turns the passengers into rabid zombies.
The film is refreshing in its depiction of zombies, at a time when the genre not only felt tired, but unlikely to be reanimated at all. They’re fast, they pile over each other in the cramped space and the film’s set-pieces, when the train does on occasion stop, are breathtakingly inventive and truly scary.
The real genius of Train To Busan, however, is in its setting. The train provides a joint space for a socially diverse group from South Korean society, placing them on generally equal footing but via the separate carriages, a handy mechanism to - by chance, and sometimes intentionally - prevent mobility. In the context of a zombie apocalypse, to quote Brad Pitt from World War Z, “movement is life.”
Social hierarchy in South Korea is particularly complex and ruthless. Conformity and social expectations, place of birth, job, place of residence, accent, and clothing all factor into the endless judgement of status in the country, which rises from a complex web of history and development that has culminated in an autocratic, work-driven society that pays the majority of its workforce (with large numbers of ‘migrant labourers’ that are distinguished from ‘expats’ in another example of hierarchy) a severely low wage. In such a consumerist society, social mobility becomes a primary motivation, and in South Korea, according to Seoul based economics professor Ju Biung-ghi, the best way to get rich currently is to be born that way. “Inequality of opportunity will make it increasingly difficult for poor children to move up, which is expected to lead to more conflict between different social classes." The country has industrialised so quickly precisely because there is little chance of social mobility. Much like the separate carriages in the train, when someone shuts the door in your face there’s little chance of becoming anything other than one more drone in the horde of ignored working class people behind you.✨✨
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Yeon Sang-ho’s “Train to Busan” is the most purely entertaining zombie film in some time, finding echoes of George Romero’s and Danny Boyle’s work, but delivering something unique for an era in which kindness to others seems more essential than ever. For decades, movies about the undead have essentially been built on a foundation of fear of our fellow man—your neighbor may look and sound like you, but he wants to eat your brain—but “Train to Busan” takes that a step further by building on the idea that, even in our darkest days, we need to look out for each other, and it is those who climb over the weak to save themselves who will suffer. Social commentary aside, it’s also just a wildly fun action movie, beautifully paced and constructed, with just the right amount of character and horror. In many ways, it’s what “World War Z” should have been—a nightmarish vision of the end of the world, and a provocation to ask ourselves what it is that really makes us human in the first place.
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