One way trip korean movie review năm 2024

Four friends on a trip rescue a woman who is being beaten by a man, only to be pursued by the police. One of them lapses into unconsciousness following an ensuing car accident and the other ... Read allFour friends on a trip rescue a woman who is being beaten by a man, only to be pursued by the police. One of them lapses into unconsciousness following an ensuing car accident and the other three are arrested on suspicion of murder.Four friends on a trip rescue a woman who is being beaten by a man, only to be pursued by the police. One of them lapses into unconsciousness following an ensuing car accident and the other three are arrested on suspicion of murder.

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Troubled Youth

It's one of these movies that it is very hard to watch. I was welded to the chair after the first 10 minutes and I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. You feel so much sympathy for the youngsters and share their helplessness. I was essentially driven to tears a couple of times. You want to scream at everyone and take the events into your own hands that's how good the helplessness of the characters is shared with the viewer. And most of all a great acting. I'm always struck how good are young Korean actors. How mature is their performance.

Korean writer director Choi Jeong-yeol, who won the Blue Dragon Award for Best Short Film back in 2008 for his The Unbearable Heaviness of Nagging, makes his feature debut with One Way Trip (also known as Glory Day), a dark drama following the unravelling of the lives of a group of four young men after they make the mistake of trying to help an apparent damsel in distress. The film has an impressive cast in Su Ho from EXO, Ryu Jun-yeol (Socialphobia), Ji Soo (Angry Mom) and Kim Hee-chan (I Miss You), and premiered at the 20th Busan International Film Festival in 2015 before going on to win the Jury Award for Best Feature Film at the 2016 Hanoi International Film Festival.

After starting with a scene of four young men being chased by the police, resulting in a hit-and-run car accident, the film turns back the clock to follow Sang Woo (Su Ho), whose friends Yong Bi (Ji Soo), Ji Gong (Ryu Jun-yeol) and Doo Man (Kim Hee-chan) take him on a trip to the remote beach town of Pogang before he enlists in the military. Although things start off well, while out drinking the four friends come across a woman being brutally beaten by a man in an alleyway, and step in to help her. While they manage to save the woman, tragedy ensues, and when her violent husband is discovered dead, they find themselves being blamed by the local police, her being a famous celebrity determined not to let the truth be known.

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One Way Trip is a dark indie offering, and if not as bleak or biting as the films of Kim Ki-duk, it sees Choi Jeong-yeol taking a similarly dim view of human nature and Korean society. Though its themes of friendship, loyalty and betrayal are nothing new, Choi’s script is insightful and suitably grim, focusing on the lengths people will go to protect themselves and their reputations, the idea of being embarrassed or publicly revealed seen as being almost, if not more terrifying than injury or death. The film benefits from an interesting moral core and from the shifting relationships between the four men, and while it’s not exactly unpredictable in the ways in which their bonds are tested and in some cases broken, it’s gripping and hard-hitting stuff. Choi also wins points for avoiding the kind of last minute redemptive twists that might be expected, and the film impresses by refusing to dive into teary melodrama in the manner that has let down so many of its peers.

With a running time of just ninety-three minutes, the film is admirably short and efficient, and for all its themes and social concerns is never ponderous and never gets caught up in maudlin moralising. If anything, Choi gives it the feel of a crime film, albeit one with a marked anti-authoritarian streak, and there’s a touch of dark, almost Kafkaesque absurdity in the way in which its young protagonists find themselves in an increasingly impossible situation, despite their best and generally most sensible efforts. The narrative is well-constructed, and though the device of starting with the end of the story is familiar, the plot develops in a naturalistic and believable fashion, which helps keep things grounded and tense.

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All four of the male leads acquit themselves well in their roles, and the film’s modest success is down in no small part to their convincing interactions with each other, Choi drawing impact from the disintegration of their initially cheerful friendships. Bolstered by solid acting, the film can be seen as a cruel coming of age tale depicting the unfortunate consequences of trying to kick back at the harsh realities of the adult world.

Though nothing truly special or original, One Way Trip is a satisfying feature debut for Choi Jeong-yeol, who directs with confidence and maturity, marking him as a director to keep an eye on in the future. Amongst the many Korean films which deal with rites of passage in a nihilistic manner, while it doesn’t exactly stand out, there’s more than enough here to make it a worthwhile, if not terribly fun watch.