Your average zombie flick in the way it captures how panic can make monsters of

And the film is thematically stronger than Without spoiling anything, the survivors of “Train to Busan” are only so luckyīecause of the sacrifice of others. That this isn’t the advice we should live by or pass down to our children. Early in the film, Seok-woo tells hisĭaughter, “At a time like this, only watch out for yourself,” but he learns Who will do what it takes to save others. Sang-ho also keeps up his socialĬommentary, giving us characters who want to do anything to survive, and others Tunnels and lines of sight become essential. That the undead can’t quite figure out door handles and are mostly blind, so Travelers learn that the entire country has gone brain-hungry. The claustrophobic tension of “Train to Busan” is amplifiedĪfter a brilliantly staged sequence in a train station in which our surviving And you thought your Metra commute was bad. Whole cars of the train into dead-eyed flesh-eaters in a matter of seconds. Later” variety-fast, focused, and violent. Know it, the woman is taking out the jugular of a conductor, who immediatelyīecomes a similarly mindless killing machine. Generally unseen is happening in the station above the platform. Train just before it departs, and just as something else disturbing but A woman who’s clearly not well gets on the His pregnant wife, an obnoxious businessman (a vision of Seok-woo in a coupleĭecades), and even a baseball team. Giving us beats with the conductors, a pair of elderly sisters, a husband and They get to the train, Sang-ho beautifully sets up his cast of characters, Seok-woo and Su-an see a convoy of emergency vehicles headed into Seoul. It’s a perfect setting for a zombieīefore they even get to their early-morning train ride, What could possibly go wrong?Įven the set-up is a thematic beauty, as this is more than just a train rideįor Seok-woo and Su-an-it’s a journey into the past as a father tries to mendīridges and fix that which may be dead. Su-an what she really wants-a trip to her mother’s home in Busan, 280 milesĪway. To make up for this rather-awkward moment, he agrees to give

That she has one already, and that he’s the one who bought it for her forĬhildren’s Day. So distant from her that he buys her a Nintendo Wii for her birthday, ignoring His mother and barely spends any time with his daughter Su-an (Kim Su-an). Seok-woo ( Gong Yoo) is a divorced workaholic.

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