Concrete Utopia (2023)

A movie containing a "what if this happens in real life" story

This is an interesting movie revolving around a world where humanity is on the brink of extinction. All I can say is "Reality sucks." The movie tells us how we'll act accordingly if we are on the same page as those in that movie. The one who is strong gets chosen to be a leader without doubt. When there's a leader, social classes exist. People whose up will be safe, while others whose down below get thrown and neglected. Even though it's unjust, when life is the only thing left for us, we have to make a choice. Those choices that we made might bless or hurt others. Interestingly enough, this kind of societal behavior does not only exist in the specific situations of the movie. In reality, there is something like this.

I really love the acting here, especially by Lee Byunghun, Park Seojoon, and Park Boyoung. I didn't really pay attention to the music, but some parts were louder and some parts were just right. Overall, great movie. I might not rewatch this, but this was an eye-opener.

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Good Enough

Korean Movie '' Concrete Utopia '' is a dystopian drama about how a utopia-like man-made society is turned into a dictatorship after a man takes over.

The movie pretty much shows how human nature reacts to power. There are those who fear it, those who dwell in it, those who want part of it. And the drama does a great job presenting it, as it escalates from an innocent fight for survival to a dark regime. Even the ending does the story justice. And yes, there are some predictable twists and overused ones as well, the overall result was quite satisfying.

Also, the performances were really good by everyone in the cast, but especially the three main leads that did great with their emotional scenes.

So, overall, eight and a half out of ten.

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Amazing movie

This movie shows what humans will act like if a disaster appears but then again we, the humanity cause and destroy the world, are selfish and don’t let others in when they need somewhere to stay, music is good too and the whole movie is interesting, if only the world was peaceful then we won’t have anything bad like a war but we destroy this world and are selfish, humanity is what destroys the world and harm the climate.

Definitely recommend this film to everyone as it’s an amazing film to watch and shows the truth of us humanity, shame on our humanity, we need more of the video’s I’ve seen online where people are friendly and willing to help and not these people in this movie who let everyone die in the cold.

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Are we living in Concrete Utopia?

I finally saw this movie. I already watched Badland Hunters and The Bargain pt. 1 and pt.2 in Korean cinemas, which are part of this world affected by a devastating earthquake, the consequences of which turned the entire country into a wasteland. Concrete Utopia is a type of films that I really like because they talk about survival in dangerous situations and about human psychology. On the one hand, I would like the people in the film to be more humane towards their neighbors, because that way they would start rebuilding what the earthquake destroyed, but probably this kind of presentation is more realistic. Man's first survival instinct is to be selfish and take care of himself. Nevertheless, in one impressive scene, the film provides a glimmer of light and hope in an artistic way, through the stained glass window of a ruined church.

So, this film is brutal, less because of the tragedy of the great earthquake itself, and more because of the relationships between people who manage to survive as best they know how. Here we have a number of top actors and all of them managed to convey the emotion of despair and anguish in a very difficult situation. And at the end, I have a question: Isn't the behavior of people in this movie a reflection of the real behavior of people in today's civilized world, because our reality is even more than in the movie, a real Concrete Utopia!?

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Kehidupan Manusia Kembali ke Masa Barter

Bicara tentang film kiamat, biasanya kejadian kiamatnya ditaruh di tengah sebagai klimaks ceritanya, tapi ini enggak.

Ailh-alih berfokus pada pemandangan kiamat yang mengerikan itu, justru film ini berfokus ke kondisi sosial masyarakat setelah kiamat. Oleh karena itu, genre yang tepat untuk menggambarkan film ini adalah "post-apocalypse" atau pascabencana (nggak disebut pascakiamat karena setelah kiamat seharusnya nggak ada kehidupan sama sekali, bukan?).

Secara singkat, film ini menceritakan orang-orang yang rebutan tempat tinggal dan sumber kehidupan. Seluruh daratan hancur rata kecuali satu apartemen di Seoul. Penghuni asli apartemen ini nggak mau orang non-penghuni tinggal di sini, akhirnya mereka mengusirnya. Sedangkan orang non-penghuni berkeyakinan bahwa penghuni asli apartemen tersebut tidak manusiawi dan egois. Disebabkan dua faktor utama ini, akhirnya terjadi konflik.

Apa kekurangannya?
- Kalau dibandingkan waktu nonton film kiamat abal-abal "2012" sih cenderung nggak menegangkan walau di beberapa adegan tetap bikin otot-otot kaki jadi kaku.
- CGI post-apocalypse-nya kurang mulus: daratan yang hancur itu anginnya kenceng-kenceng, tapi rambut sama pakaian tokohnya nggak kena pengaruh angin.
- Klimaks ceritanya pendek banget, begitu juga anti-klimaksnya.
- Lebih banyak adegan ngobrolnya dibandingkan adegan aksinya meskipun sebenarnya inilah fokus utama film ini, yaitu menyajikan kondisi sosial.

Kalau saya boleh berpendapat, film ini lebih cocok ditayangkan dengan format drama minimal 8 episode untuk menceritakan masa lalu, kejadian saat bencana, dan anti-klimaks konfliknya.
Ya, jujur saja. Alasan utama saya rela menonton ini di bioskop karena ada Mbak Park Bo-young :3

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A humanidade e sua utopia

Só quando eu comecei a ver o filme foi que entendi o título, Utopia do concreto... Psé galera, do que adianta ter um inteiro quando você é ignorante? Ou até antes já era e só deixa ficar pior.
Eu tava imaginando um filme totalmente diferente e fui surpreendida, não de uma forma ruim mas eu realmente não gostei, eu esperava algo mais feliz, sobrevivente sabe? Mas realmente, isso era uma utopia minha. O byung hyun como sae moon/youngtak foi espetacular de fazer a gente odiar ele com vários degraus de sentimento ao mesmo tempo que você entendia ele???(gostei da atuação dele mas esperava mais, queria muito que o jun yeol tivesse ganho melhor ator por night owl, mas quem sou eu, apenas uma pessoa não crítica)
Assim como os outros personagens também, é uma situação que quem passa não enxerga outra via a não ser que pense racionalmente e sentimental como a myeong hwa (bo young) e outros que ajudaram as pessoas a ficarem nos prédios. Odiei o final mas deixa um claro contraste, o min sung foi na onda do líder e perdeu a essência dele que a esposa conhecia e sabia que ele não era assim e acabou morrendo por outro lado, ela continuou viva e a surpresa do contraste de pessoas vivendo bem e num prédio caído? Compartilhando e harmonizando tudo.

Esse filme tem muita coisa pra ser analisada, muita coisa pra falar mesmo e super daria um ótimo trabalho de pesquisa.

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