What you missed in Train to Busan, and About the sequel.

Hello? Today, I want to talk about a few stories about the super quality movie, Train to Busan and explain some meaningful scenes and lines that you might have missed.
And by the end of this video, I will tell you about the sequel of Train to Busan, which is supposed to be released next year, 2020.
Train to Busan is a high-quality zombie movie with a critical message for society. So, this movie has more lingering significance than zombie movies with only suspenseful stories and production.
I will explain several meaningful scenes deliberately implied by the director one by one.
All right. Let's take a look at what's hidden inside Train to Busan.
There are five elements in this movie that you guys could find meaningful and interesting as well.

The first, selfishness that makes things worse.

The movie satirizes the selfish society through various characters. The main character of the fund manager is doing damage to the majority of individuals by spreading information without considering the individual investors, that is to say, lemmings. And Sang-hwa and his wife didn't even ride it, but he just closed the train compartment.

Seok-woo's saucy words piss him off.

And the scene where there is a big company’s executive insisting that they should take off the train cars, leaving people behind, and the scene showing selfish people blocking people from entering the train cars because they're afraid they're going to be dangerous.

So it's a dramatic showing of human self-interest that has become more extreme.

The second, the journey of being a different person.

What I really like most in this movie is the protagonist goes on the journey of being a different person, which means the main character goes through such a transformation. At the beginning, he’s all selfish and knows only about himself telling his little girl you don’t have to be nice in this dangerous situation. you got to look out for yourself. However, by the end, he’s changed completely and totally into helping other people.

In Korea, we call individual traders Gae-Mi, which means ‘ants’ in English, but as far as I know, some other countries call them lemmings. So, when this movie was shown in the foreign countries, the subtitles were shown as lemmings.
In this scene, we can know Seok-woo is a very selfish person who doesn’t care about lemmings at all. And then, as the situation is getting more and more unstable, he calls one of his acquaintances, a military lieutenant who is busy putting down the riot.

Right this scene, can you see the word in the smart phone? Gae-Mi-Deul, right? Gae-Mi is ‘ant’, and Deul means plural, but like I said, this is translated as lemmings. So, the person Seok-woo is trying to ask a favor is also classified as one of the lemmings, right?

Lieutenant Min is just one of the lemmings to him, but Seok-woo asks him a very urgent favor.

Even though Seok-woo registered his acquaintance as a lemming in his phone directory, because he is desperate to survive, he is begging for help with the stock investment. Here we can see the main character's duality.

However, As I said earlier that he goes on the journey of being a different person, the following scene makes him a completely different person, an altruistic person.

A homeless man overheard Seok-woo’s phone call.

Even in this situation, the father is teaching selfishness to his daughter.

I was deeply impressed when I saw this scene. A father can change after hearing his young daughter's thoughts and words. After this scene, the main character becomes a totally different person. He bravely fight with zombies in order to save the other people as well as his daughter. There are a lot of philosophical underlying things going on in this movie and I thought that was one of the best parts. With actual developed characters who aren’t just there to be zombie food, this movie even offers some social commentary.

The third, the spirit of sacrifice for love.

What is the key to love? It's a very difficult question, but at least in this movie, I think it's the spirit of sacrifice that tries to protect the loved one at the expense of oneself.
Throughout the movie, people just run away from zombies or stop them from coming in. But there are two representative figures who fight zombies to save people: Seokwoo and Sanghwa. To protect his beloved daughter, Seok-woo and to save his beloved wife, Sanghwa, they fight with zombies together in order to protect the people. By showing that selfishness kills other people and love saves others, the movie, Train to Busan is presenting love as a definite solution to selfishness.

The fourth, acrimonious criticism of capitalism.

In fact, selfishness and capitalism are inseparable. Because the capitalist market economy itself is a system that is built on selfishness. Personally, I think the reason why this movie shows the extreme selfishness is to criticize capitalism. The rationale is as follows.
First of all, this movie set Seok-woo as a fund manager who only knows money. It is the establishment of a conglomerate executive as a vested interest in capitalism, which can be called "the ultimate in selfish behavior." We can guess this from this scene.

Zombie-infested YuSeon Biotech, which is a poor and weak company, has been set up as a causal relationship between capitalism and Zombie by running operational stock in defiance of the damage to the lemmings.

If this movie's selfishness is talking about the problem of capitalist competition system, then Train to Busan is a movie that criticizes selfishness among people in the narrow perspective and social problems in the wide perspective.

The fifth, the implication of the ending.

A pregnant woman and a little girl survive at the expense of Seokwoo and Sanghwa. Both Seokwoo and Sanghwa are fathers.

The setting that these two fathers succeed in protecting their families is to show the message that we must overcome the problems of our society through love with a spirit of sacrifice

And the survivors are a pregnant woman and a child. They're both people who will live in the future. The reason why these people survive is to send a message that future generations should not be allowed to live in this grim society.
All right. To sum up, the older generation must defend the future generation from the troubled society through sacrifice.

The story of survival from zombies in a small train car is fascinating, but I think the implications of the movie are greater than that. Whether you have not seen this movie or you are determined to see it again, I'm sure it'll be more fun to watch the movie thinking about these five elements of the movie.

The Korean Peninsula, the sequel to Train to Busan, began filming on June 24th this year.
The release is scheduled for 2020 with the setting, four years after the previous film.
The main characters were cast as Kang Dong-won, Lee Jung-hyun, Irere, Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Min-jae and Koo Gyo-hwan.
The title has become ‘Peninsula’ symbolizing the Korean peninsula, so I guess it is the movie that contains the geographical problems of our country and the international situation and political factors.
These days, zombie movies are oversaturated, but Train to Busan shows you that you can have a lot of success if you make good zombie movies. Let's look forward to the success of Peninsula, the sequel to Train to Busan.

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