Name: Coleen Jhoy Siete

GRADE&SECT: HUMSS 11-MILL

FOCUSING ON THE PRESENT:

A CRITIQUE OF THE MOVIE “TRAIN TO BUSAN”

GENRE: ZOMBIE, DRAMA, ADVENTURE, HORROR, DISASTER,

ACTION, THRILLER, MYSTERY

INTRODUCTION:
Train to busan is a 2016 zombie film, directed by Yeon Sang-ho
and written by Park Joo-suk. Train to Busan is a harrowing
zombie horror-thriller that follows a group of terrified
passengers fighting their way through a countrywide viral
outbreaks while trapped on a suspicion-filled, blood-drenched
bullet train ride to Busan, a southern resort city that has
managed to hold off the zombie hordes.
This movie Train to Busan was released on 20th week of July
2016. The first Korean film of 2016 to break the audience
record of over 10 million theatregoers.

. A SHORT EXPOSITION OF THE STORY

Seok-woo, a fund manager, isn't able to spend quality time with
his daughter Su-an due to his busy schedules. On her birthday
eve, he plans to visit his separated wife in Busan to make it up
to Su-an, as she misses her mother dearly
ANALYSIS OF THE PLOT
Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) is a divorced workaholic. He lives with his
mother and barely spends any time with his daughter Su-an (Kim
Su-an). He’s so distant from her that he buys her a Nintendo Wii
for her birthday, ignoring that she has one already, and that he’s
the one who bought it for her for Children’s Day. To make up for
this rather-awkward moment, he agrees to give Su-an what she
really wants—a trip to her mother’s home in Busan, 280 miles
away. It’s just an hour train ride from Seoul. What could possibly
go wrong? Even the set-up is a thematic beauty, as this is more
than just a train ride for Seok-woo and Su-an—it’s a journey into
the past as a father tries to mend bridges and fix that which may
be dead. It’s a perfect setting for a zombie movie.

Before they even get to their early-morning train ride, Seok-woo

and Su-an see a convoy of emergency vehicles headed into Seoul.
When they get to the train, Sang-ho beautifully sets up his cast of
characters, giving us beats with the conductors, a pair of elderly
sisters, a husband and his pregnant wife, an obnoxious
businessman (a vision of Seok-woo in a couple decades), and even
a baseball team. A woman who’s clearly not well gets on the train
just before it departs, and just as something else disturbing but
generally unseen is happening in the station above the platform.
Before you know it, the woman is taking out the jugular of a
conductor, who immediately becomes a similarly mindless killing
machine. These are zombies of the “28 Days Later” variety—fast,
focused, and violent. They replicate like a virus, turning whole
cars of the train into dead-eyed flesh-eaters in a matter of
 seconds. They are rabid dogs. And you thought your Metra
commute was bad.

ANALYSIS OF THE CHARACTER

The one thing that I’ve pick this movie it’s because the
characters are so mesmerizing. They really give meaning to the
story that it makes really true or it was happening in the real
life. Some of the characters are doing the thing of being selfish
so that they can save their lives from that chaotic scene, while
some of them are very brave. They sacrifice their lives for they
love ones.