Social Commentary In Train To Busan

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In Yeon Sang-ho’s Train to Busan is the most purely entertaining zombie film, finding echoes of George Romero’s and Danny Boyle’s work, but delivering something unique for an era in which kindness to others seems more essential than ever. The titular mass transport vehicle serves as an apt and very literary setting for an exhilarating morality tale that pits humanity’s fragile virtues and delicate principles with a ferocious catastrophe.
For decades, movies about the undead have essentially been built on a foundation of fear of our fellow man, our neighbor may look and sound like us, but they wants to eat our brain.ut “Train to Busan” takes that a step further by building on the idea that, even in our darkest days, we need to look out for each other, and it is those who climb over the weak to save themselves who will suffer. Social commentary aside, it’s also just a wildly fun action movie, beautifully paced and constructed, with just the right amount of character and horror. In many ways, it’s what “World War Z” should have been—a nightmarish vision of the end of the world, and a provocation to ask ourselves what it is that really
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When they are try to find another train, they are attacked. Yon-Suk gives the attendant to the zombies to escape. He then throws Jin-Hee to a zombie to save himself. Yong-guk felt self blame because of he did't protect his lover as well, he tries to comfort infected Jin-Hee but is attacked. The conductor who activates the last locomotive out of kindness to saves Yon-suk captured by zombies, but Yon-suk runs to the train, leaving the conductor to be consumed. After the homeless man defends others from zombies to death, Seok-Woo, Su-an and Seong-kyeong successfully board the locomotive. Moreover, Yon-Suk had been in the verge of infection. Seok-Woo fights zombified Yon-suk off, but he is bitten before he throws him off from the

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