{"id":35581,"date":"2022-04-23T17:35:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T22:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35581"},"modified":"2022-04-23T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T22:35:32","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-744","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/04\/23\/belated-movie-reviews-744\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Modern travel these days is cutthroat.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Train to Busan<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2016) is a high quality zombie movie that uses its premise to illuminate, I suspect, some shortcomings of South Korean society. Seok-woo, father to Su-an, estranged husband, financier in South Korean society, and a man strongly in the grip of the importance of being successful, has been badgered into delivering his daughter to her mother for her birthday, a task requiring a train trip to Busan and back, a trip that takes him away from his precious offices, subordinates, and … successes. Those successes that, despite their ease, have failed to make him a great husband or even a legendary father. And, yet, who can abandon them?<\/p>\n

So, against his better judgment, they hop on the express to Busan, and behind them Seoul bursts into a bloody shambles. Seok-woo, though, is not worried until his mother calls, and then it dawns on him, in the final gurgle of her voice, that perhaps those reports of rioting are of importance.<\/p>\n

These are not your father’s shambling zombies, either. These are those new-fangled sprinting kind, the sort who redouble their pace when needed, who fight harder if need be, and … you get the point.<\/p>\n

Getting from one end of a rolling train to the other is a problem when these zombies are aboard.<\/p>\n

But don’t count the uninfected out. Seok-woo, along with a few others, are bright, motivated survivors, who notice today’s monsters are a little blind in the dark. Their maneuvers, in the brightest of days, are little short of inspired. It’s as if they’re hitting home runs.<\/p>\n

But corporate villainy lurks in the empty eyes of the zombies, doesn’t it? Seok-woo isn’t the only wannabe corporate magnate. And what awaits them in nearly fabled Busan, not to mention those intervening towns? Is Su-an’s mother ready and waiting? And how do I mean that, anyways?<\/p>\n

Train to Busan<\/strong><\/em> is a thoroughly modern retelling of the unsettling zombie story, rejiggered to be the tool of the South Korean social critic. The heads-in-buckets maneuver of some zombie movies is not present, for which I give heartfelt thanks, but the utter ferocity of this version is heartbreaking in its own special way.<\/p>\n

I won’t give a general recommendation to see this, but if you’re a fan of the zombie, this should be front and center on your bucket list. You won’t be disappointeded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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