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Well, I agree but I don't ever really get an answer when I ask if this level of bullying really takes place in Korea and elsewhere in Asia. I mean, four or five of those little shits were kicking the daylights out of that kid right out in the open on the stairwell. Teachers and administrators would HAVE to be looking the other way not to see it. And what would doing that gain them? That Korean head-slapping thing just makes me want to punch the snot out of every character I see do it. There's something so humiliating and relentless about it. A rapid-fire series of head-slaps seems worse to me than one well-aimed punch. If I had been bullied like that I would have snapped at some point and taken some of the bastards down with me...which is what this film is all about, I suppose. Maybe?

Oh. My. Lord.
This is some seriously messed up shit in the very best possible way.
After watching so many asshole bullies murder the heart and soul of their victims in Asian films/series, it was a hand-over-the-mouth-eyes-bugging-out-in-horror delight to see this sort of...thing. Wow.
For what it is, I say 9.5/10.
Completely awesome.

I haven't watched the movie yet, but regarding Covid, we had Donald Fucking Trump here in the U.S. to screw things up. He's likely responsible for half of our more than 700,000 Covid deaths.

BRAVO. This film has everything one could ask for from a disaster flick and then some. A few quibbles, but I'd be nit-picking to mention them. Thrilling SFX and engaging characters had me gasping, hiding behind my hands and crying like a baby at the end, and a few times earlier too. As I said below, anyone who would compare this to the 70s Hollywood flick "Towering Inferno" is seriously misguided.

I was denied a bad end for that b***h and her dog, but other than that, 9/10. Well-done.

You are out of your mind. This film is so far superior to that one they are not remotely in the same league.

Is there a reason a film can't be more than one of those things at the same time?

Given the ending, I'm surprised there's never been a sequel to this.

Wow. Really?

WOW. Maybe the best disaster/epidemic-type movie I have ever seen. I went into it with no expectations one way or the other as I never heard of it until a few days ago. But I do like a good disaster flick and this turned out to be extraordinary. There were a few disaster-flick tropes but not many, and the ones that were there played out in mostly original ways. I was holding my breath or clutching my pillow throughout the film. The BIG scenes were expertly directed and executed; I felt I was watching a REAL and horrible mass event play out on the news or something...to direct hundreds of people that effectively and then stitch/edit everything together to creat that breath-holding sense of mass panic and empathy for the victims is a phenomenal achievement. I actually teared up a couple of times when things got bad in a mass-hysteria way, out of a general wave of emotion created by what I was seeing on the screen. I don't think that has happened to me before during a flick like this.

Lead actor and all supports were excellent. Those kids broke my heart and the wife...wow, she is amazing in evoking a deeply visceral desire that HAS to be resisted within oneself for the sake of survival...I was spellbound by her.

Highly recommended. 9/10. Bumped it down from a 9.5 due to a couple of those fake, last-minute, saved-by-the-bell kind of occurences in the film. At one point I actually thought something truly devastating for a couple of MCs was going to happen, but there was a last-second save. I would have been more impressed if the writer/director had let that event take place. THAT would have been original.

On edit: If you haven't seen it, check out "Train To Busan." Another favorite Korean disaster flick. Spectacular with great acting and effects.

Hi there. Thanks for your your words about the film. They allowed me to experience a perspective I otherwise would hot have.

I'd like to ask about being "agender," as this is the first time I've encountered the term. I just googled and did some quick reading. If you're not comfortable answering my questions, just ignore me. :) In your agender experience, do you feel sexual attraction to other people? I know asexual is different than agender, which is why I ask. I am a gay man who came out in my late 30s. I definitely feel I am gendered male for the most part, but psychologically I slide around on the male-female continuum a bit now and then. In other words, you'd perceive me as male and masculine but there are a lot of guys more masculine than me. Wow, this whole area of sexual identity is fascinating to me, as I am not young and have thought of sexuality as a male-female continuum, so I'm trying to figure out where non-gendered people would fit, and it doesn't seem they'd fit anywhere on that scale. So I need to develop a whole new way to think about this.

Well...sorry but I'm dropping this. It feels like a made-for-TV movie to me and I find the acting and direction sub-par. Made it about a third of the way through. Why are cis women playing trans women? The MC is SO mousy, other than when she did you-know-what at the beginning of the film, that I became annoyed with her character. That defense lawyer sure is handsome though. But not handsome enough to keep me watching. 4.5/10

Why do all Korean bad people start smoking as soon as you find out they're bad?

Seemed odd that it was so important the killer be made to remember his crime, especially considering the lengths to which they had to go to make it so, which was full of improbabilities and plot holes anyway.

He didn't believe the "lie" anyway. Not sure why you think there has to be a "need" that you can understand.

Interesting that you hate it so much. I just got kind of bored, even with all the reveals. I much prefer, in general, movies to dramas where everything is drawn out forever to fill time.

I agree about plot holes and improbable actions and silly jump scares and such but I didn't hate it as much as you. I think the MC acting is excellent, as is pretty much everyone else. Ummm...I don't think every movie has to end with justice and closure and the way we want it to...just a thought. I kind of feel like this was a potentially really good movie/story told in a really fucked up way.

I agree with you for the most part, except that I always like moral ambiguity and situations where good people do bad things for good reasons but they're still bad...gray area stuff. I liked that the MC at the end tried to spare the grown boy his love for his father but the boy didn't believe him anyway and then, yeah, the VERY end...was almost comical.
But again the acting, especially Kang Ha Neul, was excellent.

Hmmm...I liked the vibe and the acting overall, especiall from the MC, was great BUT the film is full of plot holes and big improbabilities and silly jump scares. I hate when people run down the middle of the street when being pursued by a car rather than, you know, cutting off into an alley or something. But if you do that the car can't kill you, so you know...cheap jump scares too.
MC was phenomenal though.

Can anyone tell me what that very last scene was to convey?
The most powerful image in the film is the shot of the little boy standing alone in the house near the end.
Film had a nice, energetic/thriller vibe but so many plot holes and improbabilities and jump scares that by half way through I couldn't take it seriously anymore.
Main actor Kang Ha Neul is one to watch. Totally convincing at 21 and 41.
Makeup crew: Off the charts excellent work.
That hospital at the end needs more staff on the ward.
Any film that takes THAT long on verbal exposition hasn't done its work.
I suggest a new, alternate ending: The MC and grown boy fall in love and run away together.
Sad ending but I wasn't into it that much by then so whatever.
7/10

Lee Shin Young is a superstar! What a comedic genius. I so enjoy watching his face and its various gyrations. As for the show, I was totally into eps 1-3, but with 4 I find my mind wandering a bit. There have been some false notes in the action that have taken me out of the story. Like when the two guys get piled on by that football team and then they just lay there on them unmoving while all this internal dialogue and panice goes through the guys' mind. So how many football players are going to gang-tackle you because you're on their turf (or something) and then just lay there like mannequins doing and saying nothing? I know it's freedom of artistic expression or something...or it's just sloppy work. Anyway there have been a few things like that. Oh, also...how many high school girls walk alone at night down endless highway tunnels lined in tile so that they are completely vulnerable to whatever scumbags come along?