‘Hunt. Hunt the spy’: an uncontrolled ‘tension’ with hyperventilation

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artists: Lee Jung-jae, Go Yoon-jung, Heo Sung-tae, Kim Jung-do

Premiere: January 4, 2023

directorial debut Lee JungJaeOutside of his country, he is better known as his hero. “Squid Game”is a hyperventilated espionage “thriller” that stacks narrative twists, shots, chases, and exploding vehicles atop a plot loosely inspired by political instability and corruption. South Korea He lived during the brutal military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan in the 1980s. Watching two rival intelligence agents race to uncover a North Korean spy plotting to assassinate the president. ‘Hunt’ It moves at full speed, with an unusually plentiful amount of action sequences and plot twists.

On the one hand, sequences of fundamentally kinetic nature are often convincingly intense, but the amount of corpses piling up and the elaborate torture may turn some viewers away. But folds and folds within folds form a sufficiently impenetrable tangle that often Difficulty understanding or dealing with what is on the screenthe lack of clarity in the motivations of the characters and the growing narrative inconsistency. And when it comes to the political dimension of the movie, it turns out that Lee had no interest in using it as an excuse to propagate bland moralism when the time came.

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