It’s South Korea’s pick for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars.
Only South Korea, home of high-concept stories, can come up with this entertaining social-commentary movie disguised as a disaster pic.
The residents govern themselves for order and protection in what begins as a democracy but devolves into a fascist autocracy. Sorta likeConcrete Utopia: Park Seo-Jun and Park Bo-Young realise they are in the wrong townhall meeting.— carries this idea very effectively throughout to a well-paced, well-acted incident-packed level. It even looks like a comical parody of the communal absurdities of North Korea.
Transforming the community into a disciplined food-rationing entity with hunter-gatherer duties, he leads a group of armed men to plunder supplies from holdouts in the wasteland. Park Seo-Jun plays Min-Sung, a young good-hearted ex-civil servant who wields a weapon following his cult leader despite being uneasy about his rage-filled methods.
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