Speaking of Korean cinema, "Train to Busan", one of the popular Korean movies that are famous all over the world, is almost unavoidable. Looking around, "Train to Busan" is so popular that few people have yet to see it. Seven years have passed since its release in 2016, but many people are still enjoying it.
Train to Busan aired a long time ago, so it is judged that some people have forgotten the plot. So, let's take this opportunity to tell you the plot of Train to Busan again, and find out why it was so popular.
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The Korean zombie movie “Train to Busan,” released in 2016, became very popular in Korea, surpassing 10 million viewers for the first time at the time, and premiered in the Midnight Screening section (non-competition) of the Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2016. This movie is a prequel to “Seoul Station” and was re-released on July 1, 2020.
On October 6, 2017, Train to Busan, which aired on MBC as a Chuseok special film, recorded an audience rating of 12.9%, making it the only Chuseok special film aired for 6 days to achieve a double-digit viewership rating. Later, on July 15, 2020, the sequel to Train to Busan, “Peninsula”, was released.
Source: 4 reasons <Train to Busan> is not a good movie - Oh My Star (ohmynews.com)
The plot of the movie "Train to Busan" is very simple. It is a story about people turning into zombies due to an unknown virus, and the citizens on the train fighting against the zombies to get to Busan, the only safe city.
Passengers on the train to Busan in the movie had to find a way to survive due to the paralysis of the national system. But fortunately, humans on the brink of death become smarter. For this reason, it is not uncommon to see people betraying their comrades in order to protect their own lives, or risking the lives of others in an attempt to escape.
On the train in the movie, there are also citizens who help each other find solutions. They are willing to sacrifice themselves to save more people. Although it is not well planned, it is not difficult to read the meaning of 'If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together' in the images of the people holding hands and walking one step at a time.
Zombies were not very popular in the Korean film market, but through foreign works such as The Walking Dead and World War Z, they gradually gained public attention. According to the JoongAng Ilbo report on November 2, 2016, “[Magazine M] ‘Train to Busan’ box office sensation, why are we crazy about zombies?”, Train to Busan is the first Korean blockbuster that deals with zombies head-on, It can be confirmed that the show was familiar and fun to domestic audiences as well.
Train to Busan uses the narrow and long space of a train as its main background, effectively directing a tense chase with zombies and conflicts between survivors. Through the news, “The reason for the success of the first 10 million movie ‘Train to Busan’ this year” reported on August 8, 2016 by the Yeongnam Ilbo, it can be seen that a lot of effort was put into realizing it like a real train, as the scene inside the train is close to half. there is.
Source: The reason why the first 10 million movie 'Train to Busan' was successful this year (yeongnam.com)
Train to Busan is not just an entertainment film, it smoothly melts the class conflict, family love, and altruism of Korean society into the zombie film genre. In the film, through the sacrifices and choices of people who face death and disease, we look back on the lonely and sad appearance of modern people and what we have lost.
