Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho, 2016)

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Today, I will review the movie named Train to Busan. First of all, I love this movie. I choose this movie to review is because there have many highlights about this movie that i want to talk about. The genre of this movie is horror. What is horror? The official definition of horror is an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting. However, in my meaning of horror is just only shocking and feeling scared, always making me have goosebumps.

Theory Discussion

In this movie, there is some theory that we can see it and also learn many theory in the class. The theory that we can bring it to this movie is semantics. Semantics is the list of common traits and attitudes, characters, shows, locations, sets, etc, bringing us to very much the visual aspects of the film. Semantics is also same with visuals and it's called mise-en-scene which includes four things are locations, makeup and costume, lighting, and actors' behavior and movement. For exmaples, the locations. This movie is shoot at the capital Seoul, the northwest of the country which is the Seoul station to the Busan, the southwest of the country and they take it the KTX train that also passes through some city such as Daejon and Deagu. The inside of train have the restricted space yet moveable location. It has the challenge to take a perfect wide shot. (Anton Bergstrom, 2018)

The makeup and costume of this movie which is for the zombies are very fantastic and bombastic. The makeup was inspired by the complicated of undead revivals including The Night of the Living Dead (1968) and World War Z (2013). The makeup artists made these zombies to combine it with the new world zombie of new era, the creatures in this movie create a class of monster all their own. (Justin Fortes, 2018)

Besides, the next theory in this movie is the Syntactic. It means the constitutive relationships between undesignated and variable placeholders, bringing us to very much the thematic aspects of the film. Syntactic is also called as Themes which is derived from the narrative of the film that includes types of characters, heroes vs Antiheroes and many more. For instance, the types of characters have two which is the positive and negative. The positive part is the character like Sang-hwa. He should be alive at the end of the movie but in order to save people lives, he had to sacrifice his own life. Although his costume is not good as others, but he also have his low-profile. (Alec Kubas-Meyer, 2016) 


Synopsis

The main characters of this movie, Seok-woo, a fund manager who always work day and night but he always neglect his daughter, Su-an. She wishes for her father to take her to Busan to see her mother. Therefore, her father takes her to see her mother on her birthday. They take KTX train to Busan. Suddenly, a woman with a bite wound on her leg run into the train. She turned into zombie and started to bite the woman and the infection started to influence quickly. At the end of the story, Su-an's father sacrificed himself in order to his daughter not get infected and a pregnant woman named Seong-kyeong as he had by infected by a coward man named Yon-suk. When they arrived at Busan, the soldiers unable to see them easily but Su-an' singing can make them to realize that they are human. 

Analysis

Train to Busan is a horror film is because it has many reasons. However, how is this movie a horror film? Based on this movie, there are some scenes that actually tells this is a horror film. The first scene is when the girl who are have infected and run into the train and turn into a scary face, creepy bones with unbalanced body then she just the woman. This scene we can see that there have the thriller and horrifying elements inside the scene. The next scene is when the coward man named Yok-suk think that the survivors from the train behind including Su-an are infected and force them to go another carriage. When the survivors have sealed off carriage's door, something bad happened. The zombies use their force to break the carriage's door and bite them fiercely as they have no another way out. The blood is everywhere and suddenly the bloody hand print was just at the door. The chaos will come to the conclusion.This scene is terrified as before because of the sound effect can make us creepy and mostly goosebumps. Also, the moment when the zombies rushing into the carriage, we all are frighten. This is the reason that this scene can make this film is a horror film. (David Duprey, 2017)



There are various categories in this movie which includes the unnatural category. The thing that match with this category is the threat to normalcy. It means an external force threatening civilians such as the zombies. This movie has many zombies in the majority so that is in this unnatural category. The next category is the psychological and massacre categories and is also for the threat to normalcy. For example, when the population city like Seoul, majority has been infected they need to get out of this city to Busan for surviving as there was a safe place. 

There are have many genres in the movie nowadays including this movie. The major genre in this film is horror but there are some genre that we can see it in this movie. Firstly, the action. For exmaple, three people who named Seok-woo, Sang-hwa, and Yong-guk are armed and their hands cover by the cloth or tape in order to fight all the zombies for reaching to carriage that have many survivors inside there. They are very to brave to fight them and also find the solution that when the setting is in the dark side, they can't see them and just walked normally unless they heard the sound. 

Conclusion

In the conclusion, I personally think this movie is a quite good movie. I give 7 out of 10. It is horrified, thriller and also surprised. It is because when the army had become the zombies, it quite surprise me and the chaos is started again and they are just running for their life in order to survive. It is official that this movie is the best horror movie in Korea. 






Reference,
Wikipedia (2016), Train to Busan, Retrieved from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_to_Busan

Anton Bergstrom (2018), Review: Train to Busan (2016), Retrieved from
https://3brothersfilm.com/blog/2018/2/22/review-train-to-busan-2016

Justin Fortes (2018), Fear Needs No Translation: Eat Your Heart Out - An Analysis of "Train to Busan", Retrieved from
https://lewislitjournal.wordpress.com/2018/02/28/eat-your-heart-out-an-introduction-to-fear-needs-no-translation-and-a-review-of-train-to-busan/

Alec Kubas-Meyer (2016), Review: Train to Busan, Retrieved from
https://www.flixist.com/review-train-to-busan-220738.phtml

David Duprey (2017), That Moment in"Train to Busan": Arriving in Daejeon 
http://www.thatmomentin.com/train-busan-2016-arriving-daejeon/

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