Train to Busan

There are 3 movies to date that I have ever cried to, this being one of them. While a lot of the story beats are predictable they do them in a way that is completely natural to the story progression and has enough emotional payoff that you still forget they’re happening and become fully engrossed in the film. I feel as though as a person who doesn’t read Korean I missed a lot of story beats particularly in the articles and news scrolls that would’ve clued me into the main characters role in the creation of the epidemic instead of JUST at the very end, but that’s a flaw that is on a personal level not on the movie itself. Right in the opening sequence they clue to the diseases origin in Chronic Wasting Disease over both the driver arguing about his culled livestock, as well as the hit deer at the beginning of the scene. With enough zombie cinema that pretty much clicks once you see it. Aside from the incredible, emotionally charged story I LOVED the behaviour of the zombies, while they were cartoonishly aggressive for cinema sake they’re definitely some of the closest I have seen to what one could assume human CWD would be like. While I wish we got to learn more about the side characters and their lives, I do like the choice of not fleshing them out further than necessary. The focus was between Seok-Woo and his daughters relationship, and a core part of Seok-Woo’s character arc was learning to care about people who were not important or impactful in any means in his life, and to treat them as human beings with value. I believe the choice to not give other characters much backstory gives all of that significantly more weight. I understand the necessity of having a human antagonist to root against, but the businessman who was rushing to get home somewhat spoiled my enjoyment of the movie, as a large part of what made it good particularly at the beginning was simply fatal human error. I would say more but I’m lowkey a little stoned so uh….. hashtag good movie I liked it eat more eggs and lots of yogurt