#ALIVE
Director: Cho Il-hyung
A gamer finds himself alone in his apartment when a zombie apocalypse hits the country. He barely manages to escape from an infected person who enters his apartment, and helplessly watches people being bitten by a horde of zombies. He soon runs out of food, water, phone and internet connection, and at one point decides to take his own life. But he is saved by another survivor from the adjacent complex who shines a laser pointer at him. Finding the other survivor lends our gamer a renewed vigour and the two share food and eventually a walkie-talkie to talk. After they barely escape another mad horde of zombies, they realise they'd die if they stayed at their apartments any longer and decide to make a run for the 8th floor. Of course things go bad and zombies find them but they're saved in the nick of time by a stranger. Things start to look good only for the stranger to drug them so that his zombie wife can feed on them. They barely escape from the stranger and his zombie wife but not before attracting the attention of the entire zombie gang. They barely manage to get to the rooftop but with no rescue in sight, they give in to the idea of death only for a rescue helicopter with soldiers to arrive who shoot the horde dead.
I'm not going to lie. I love zombie movies. They're fun even with all the bleak world ending plot. While there are some obvious flaws with the film, you cannot help but notice the loneliness depicted in the film being a parallel to the isolation most of us have been putting ourselves through since the pandemic broke out. Yoo Ah-in of Burning fame is completely underused in the film. As the gamer he feels like a stand in for what young people are supposed to be like but he does his part well. Park Shin-hye as the axe yielding survivor shines in her scenes especially when she runs across the apartment courtyard, escaping and killing zombies.
But #Alive is a full on zombie thriller. With minimal dialogue, little to no back stories and a straight plot, #Alive makes for a fun watch while you're hunkered down at home, escaping the pandemic on your own.
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