#ALIVE (#Saraitda)
"A city was infected by a mysterious virus, which causes the city getting out of control and being closed-off, leaving two survivors completely isolated and struggle to live in the critical situation."
#Alive (Korean: #살아있다; RR: #Saraitda) is a 2020 South Korean zombie thriller film directed by Cho Il-hyung, starring Yoo Ah-In (유아인) and Park Shin-Hye (박신혜). It is based on the 2019 American film "Alone" by Matt Naylor who co-adapted his script with Cho (Info Source).
The Straits Times reported that the film surpassed one million ticket sales in just five days since it was released on June 24 in South Korea. "According to Yonhap news agency, the movie also posted the highest weekend box office total in five months since the pandemic seized the country."
You cannot deny the twisted parallels of countries under lockdown due to COVID-19, and the wild imaginations of it being overrun by zombies, IMHO.
A trio of trailers are posted here (with English subtitled - Thank You EonTalk!), along with a "making-of" featurette embedded at the bottom of this blogpost. No further info if this movie will screen here in Singapore, but even if it did tho ...
My sheer excitement to watch this film is not purely because of Park Shin-Hye (WHO AM I KIDDING OMG), but also the literal applicability to our current way-of-modern-life, especially in a Asian context (for myself personally), and of a urban environment not unlike our own, and not the road-trip adventures of so many zombie-flicks, including TRAIN TO BUSAN, Japan's I AM HERO, and most Western zombie-flicks, including WORLD WAR Z, 28 DAYS etc ...
(All stills via IMDb)
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