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Konkeuriteu yutopia (2023)
Human instinct
It was starred by Ibyon Hon, a famous actor in Korea.
And the story goes like as follows...
Movie setting was that there was a disaster in Korea that
overwhelmed with all the Korean coutnry nationwide
except that one apartment was remained intact.
Because of that, there were lots of lootings and murders
and violence going on to get food. So there must be
some rule and order to suppress those violence.
Residents of apartment were gathered and having a
meeting, discussing this and that, and then one man
whose profession was unknown was chosen as a leader.
The leader performed by Ibyon Hon was efficient at first
leading those food ration and making teams to control
violence and making rules to reward residents in proportion
to their contribution to the community.
But he became dogmatic gradually... and protagonist of
public servant and his wife have some animosity against
him as residents.
And his wife found out that the leader was using fake name
of the deceased resident. That means he was actually not
a resident of the apartment.
Stillmore, there was a insurgent of other suvivor in this area
to get food for survival, making him a archienemy of everyone
including residents of the apartment.
He got dead by looting and theives. After looitngs and thieves
coming to the community, the protagonist got dead being beside
of his wife.
His wife became a survivor of this rampage and felt saddness
about her life. When asked about the residents were berserk,
she told him that is not true. The residents are all normal people
just severely cornered for survival.
I thought that it was very a sad story with bad ending.
A memorable line by protagonist was "I just want to have
a stable life, that's why I became a public servant."
That man was brainwashed by the leader and
did series of misdemeanor and crimes with feeling
a qualm. I think that human beings will do anything
when they are in dire situation just for their survival.
I felt that the human instincts are the same
whether they pretend to be a good Samaritan or
Malilyn Manson.