Welcome to Movie Shortens. Follow us today to the 2021 South Korean sci-fi action film called:
So Bok. Before we start, be aware: there are spoilers!
The movie begins with a scene of a young boy in a research lab.
Later on, Dr. Anderson, a scientist, is in his office and is suddenly attacked by a drone.
Next, we get to know our main character, Min Ki Hun, a former intelligence agent. He is struggling
with a headache and can't get to sleep. We are then introduced to Chief Ahn,
the director of South Korea’s intelligence agency. He is informed about the terrorist attack
that killed Dr. Anderson last night due to his research on immortality.
Later on, Ahn calls and informs Dr. Park, also a scientist who is working for the same project,
to move the research lab to a safer place. Back to Min, as his insomnia has gotten worse,
he is so desperate and has to ask for some pills from his friend who works in a hospital.
His friend reluctantly gives him some and tells him to stop relying on it. Min assures that
he won’t do anything stupid then leaves. Then, Min drives to the riverbank and uses the
medicine. While being unconscious, he has some bad hallucinations. Until evening, a group of
agents show up and take him to meet Ahn, also his former boss at the Intelligence Agency.
Min is offered a job which involves a classified project of national importance.
Cut to the next day, we can see Min is guided around the lab by Dr.
Shin. We learn that the lab has already moved to a ship. Afterwards, we are introduced to Dr. Lim,
who reveals that the project successfully created the world’s first human clone 10 years ago.
They then unveil the window to show Min the specimen, who is a 10 year old boy
named Seo Bok. Seo Bok is not considered a human being since he has special genes nonexistent in
the human body. Seo Bok possesses the secret to immortality and telekinetic superpower.
Seeing Min is quite skeptical about Seo Bok, Dr. Shin reveals that Seo Bok’s brainwave
is way more powerful than ordinary people and tells Seo Bok to demonstrate
his power. The boy stands up and controls the surrounding stones and leaves on the ground.
Moments later, Min starts to hallucinate and faints. He is brought to Dr. Shin’s office
and diagnosed with a brain tumor. Dr. Shin offers Min a clinical trial,
which uses Seo Bok to cure his illness. But first, Min meets Ahn to learn more about the
upcoming mission. Ahn reveals to Min that someone knew about Seo Bok and will attempt to abduct him.
Min’s job is to bodyguard Seo Bok. In return, Min will have a chance to treat his brain tumor.
The next day, as Min shows up at the lab, Dr. Lim starts injecting an inhibitor to Seo Bok.
It turns out that Seo Bok is not invincible as Min thought. As his cell division is too fast,
they have to suppress it by providing an inhibitor once every 24 hours. Dr. Lim also reveals
that since Min’s clinical trial is the first one, nobody knows the chances of success.
And in the worst scenario, Min will die. Later, we see Min and Seo Bok are in a truck
heading to a secret place. Meanwhile, when Chief Ahn orders his henchmen to hand over both Min and
Seo Bok for the Americans, an unknown party appears and abruptly attacks his team.
Min along with Seo Bok are abducted and brought away. When Min wakes up, he finds himself tied in
a corner. As he manages to escape, a soldier walks in and starts to give Seo Bok a jab of inhibitors.
However, Seo Bok refuses and uses his superpower to attack him.
Min also manages to finish the man off. As the other soldiers outside approach,
Min and Seo Bok try to come to the front seat and drive the truck away. Min later reaches a
phone box and calls for Ahn, who tells him to move to a safe house in a town nearby.
While Min and Seo Bok are heading to the town, Seo Bok starts to question Min if he is a good
person and why he protects him. Min simply explains that his life depends on Seo Bok.
Since the boy has never been outside of the lab, he becomes curious about everything he sees on the
way to the safe house. Min takes him to a clothes shop and lets him dress nicely. Soon, they walk to
the safe house and spend a night there. Min also learns about Seo Bok’s routine, which is mostly
taking supplements and testing all day in the lab. He starts to sympathize with the young boy.
Just then, two agents appear at the safe house and attempt to kill Seo Bok. However, Min fights
off to protect Seo Bok. As the agents shoot, the boy uses his superpower to shield the bullets.
Min kills one agent, and Seo Bok also uses his brainwave to eliminate the other one.
Min calls Ahn and asks him to explain. For some reasons, Ahn orders him to finish Seo Bok off,
which means Min’s tumor will not be cured. Min disobeys Ahn’s order and runs away with the boy.
Later on, Min calls Dr Park, who offers them to come to the lab for safety.
At the same time, we see Dr. Park is talking with Chairman Kim, an old man in a wheelchair,
also the chief investor of the project. On the way to the lab, Seo Bok asks Min if they
can go to Ulsan instead. Min reluctantly agrees even though Seo Bok doesn’t reveal his purpose
of going there. All of a sudden, the boy vomits blood due to his lack of inhibitor. However,
he still tells Min to keep going to Ulsan. Chief Ahn and Chairman Kim are talking about
the suspect abduction that happened earlier. Kim wonders why Ahn is trying to kill Seobok
and thinks that he may be on the same page with the Americans.
Later on, Ahn meets the Americans. They convince him to hand over Seo Bok.
They believe that human’s fear of death gives their lives a meaning. However,
humans would lose their desire to live which would lead them to an extinction if they are immortal.
Ahn calls Kim and officially declares that he and the Americans will take over the specimen.
Elsewhere, Min and Seo Bok stop by on the way to Ulsan. Dr. Park tells Min to bring
Seo Bok back to the lab immediately for his survival. When Min rushes out to see Seo Bok,
the boy is nowhere to be found. Seobok wanders around to look for food
and bumps into a fight with two students. Min grabs Seo Bok and runs away.
Meanwhile, Ahn also figures out their whereabouts via CCTV and orders his people to come. Now,
both Min and Seo Bok are considered terror suspects and must be shot on sight.
Back to the duo, they drive to the beach and stay low for a while. Min accidentally reveals
to the boy that they are going to the lab instead of Ulsan, Seo Bok gets out of the car. Min chases
and persuades him to go back to the lab as Seo Bok might be dead soon without the injection. However,
the boy doesn’t care and starts questioning Min why he wants him to be alive. Min again replies
that his own life depends on Seo Bok. On the other hand, Seo Bok wonders why Min wants to
be alive if all men will die anyway. Min replies that he might be a bad person and his life may not
be worth saving but there is nothing wrong with him wanting to survive. Suddenly, Min
encounters a severe headache and blacks out. Moments later, Seo Bok is sitting alone on the
beach contemplating his fate. Soon, we can see him recall the time when he was in the lab with
his “mother”, Dr. Lim. It is revealed that Seo Bok used to question his existence as a specimen
but Dr. Lim failed to explain to him. As Min wakes up, he apologizes to Seo Bok
and both quickly get to know each other. During their conversation,
Seo Bok wonders about the feeling of death. Min explains that dying is like falling asleep
forever. Afterwards, as Min starts to open up about himself, we can see a part of his memory.
In a flashback, Min chose to turn in one of his colleagues, Hyun-soo,
to gain Chief Ahn’s trust. However, in contrast to Min’s expectation, Ahn decides to kill Hyun-soo
by drowning her in the river. Instead of saving Huyn-soo, Min cowardly runs away.
Until now, he still regrets how he lived his life and blames himself for Hyun-soo’s death.
At this point, Min bursts into tears. Seobok then creates a memorial by rocks on the beach
and a circle of flying birds in the sky. Then, he reveals to Min that his
destination is Imhuyn Church in Ulsan. When they both arrive at Imhuyn Church,
Seo Bok approaches the ashes of a boy named Kyung-hoon, Dr. Lim’s son. After Kyung-hoon died
in a car accident, Dr.Lim started to use her deceased son’s DNA to create the specimen,
Seo Bok. Here, the boy reveals that he is scared of dying, but the idea of living forever
is also scary. Min suggests Seo Bok should express his feelings and cry if that helps.
Leaving the church, Seobok starts to see the beauty of life and they head to the lab, where Seo
Bok’s “mother” is and also the place he considers home. Seobok starts to vomit blood on the way.
During this time, Ahn and his henchmen figure out the men that were sent to abduct Seo Bok
are mercenaries hired by an unknown party. Later on, the intelligence agents are able to
locate Min and Seo Bok. As they start to corner them and are about to fire, the mercenaries come
to rescue the duo and bring them back to the lab. It turns out Chairman Kim is behind this rescue.
He secretly hired the mercenaries to deal with people from the Intelligence Agency.
Kim has already foreseen Ahn’s move. He killed Dr. Anderson after realizing that he was a spy
for the Americans. Therefore, Ahn is left with no other choice but to finish off both Kim and
his immortality project. Ahn leads the whole army to come to the ship aiming to kill Seo Bok
and destroy the lab. Chairman Kim also reveals his true motive is to keep himself immortal.
In the lab, Min sees Dr.Park and learns that the scientists are collecting Seo Bok’s bone marrow to
extract his stem cells. After being injected with Seo Bok’s stem cells, a human would be granted
everlasting life. However, after discovering that they will complete the extraction on the boy
as long as he lives, Min is horrified as it is too cruel for a 10 year old boy. Dr. Park states
that there is nothing unethical about it as the boy is a specimen for humanity’s use.
Realizing that Seo Bok will forever be a lab rat, Min attempts to stop the extraction to save him.
He punches Dr.Park and starts to fight while the ship is undocking.
Chairman Kim also approaches along with a bunch of mercenaries. Min realizes the
process can not be stopped, so Min gets to see Dr. Lim, Seo Bok’s “mother”.
Unfortunately, Dr Lim was killed shortly after by Kim
and her body is preserved to create Seo Bok’s DNA. Min is about to shoot Kim dead but he gets beaten
up badly and then dragged into another place. Dr. Park realizes that Seo Bok is trying to stop
the extraction and approaches Lim’s corpse. Seo Bok is filled with uttered anger for his mom’s
death, so he uses his brainwave to smash Park multiple times to the ground, killing him.
Next, Seo Bok approaches Kim and his henchmen as they are shooting at him. However, the boy can
control the surroundings and ruthlessly finish them off. Now, we can see Seo Bok is creating a
hole on the ship and stepping out of it. As Ahn sees Seo Bok approaching, he orders his people
to fire at the boy. However, the boy can easily shield himself from the attack. Seo Bok creates
a rumbling attempt to blow the soldiers away but he collapses and starts to vomit more blood.
Just then, Min had escaped with a car, coming to save Seo Bok.
Ahn drives a tank and shoots at Seo Bok. Even though the young boy tries to resist,
he loses over the power of the tank. Min appears and uses the car to shield Seobok
from the bullets. Min tells Seobok to run away but the anger of Seo Bok reaches a climax,
he uses all of his remaining power to create a hole in the ground and bury the soldiers alive.
Min is relieved and asks Seo Bok to leave. However, the boy decides to throw the car
that is on fire to the hole to burn them all. He reveals to Min that he wanted to become
something meaningful to someone. However, the living hell will not
end if he is still alive. Seo Bok asks Min to kill him and put an end to everything, which he does.
In the end, we can see a smile on Seo Bok’s face as he seems to find peace eventually.
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