Director: Um Tae-hwa
Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Park Bo-young, Park Seo-joon, Park Ji-hu
Year: 2023
Premiere: February 2, 2024
★★★★
In one scene, someone asks, “Can’t we be peaceful and supportive citizens?” he asks. ‘Concrete Utopia’, Pretending to ignore that such fictions would not exist if we could. Because even though it’s the Korean’s new work Um Tae-hwa This looks like a disaster movie theater the real disaster Behavior of society after disasterturning the film into a reflection anti-immigration policies and the border closure of our time. What the metaphor lacks in subtlety, meanwhile, is compensated for by the skill with which action moments are mixed with tension, sentimentality and touches of humour.
earthquake in seoul
The first sequence of the film ends with an earthquake devastating Seoul, and from that moment it is easy to guess that the only surviving building in the city (where almost the entire film is set) will soon become the capital of Seoul. A miniature of a fascist state. While this happens, in the same way, ‘Concrete Utopia’ doesn’t say much about humanity or society that the countless books that inspired it haven’t already said, but in return it gives us energetic storytelling, clever plotting and a good deal of good time. with review our moral certainties Your attachment to privilege and pure selfishness, turning decent people into monsters and without four walls around them to support them, our principles may fall to pieces.