Hello, everybody, welcome to my channel. Today I am going to explain a South Korean horror
zombie film called Alive. Cho LL Hyung has directed this film with the screenplay input
by Matt Naylor. The film starts in a South Korean city, where the film’s lead character
Joon-woo is waking up late one morning. He is a vivid video gamer with his own studio
and quite a lot of fans. He lives with his parents and sister, who went out early that
morning without a specific reason.
After some time Joon-woo is watching emergency news on TV. Anchor says the citizens of the
city are behaving irrationally, they are attacking one another without provocation, the government
has lost control, for everyone’s safety it is advised that people should remain in
their house. So, basically, citizens were turning into zombies. Joon-woo sees this horror
live from his apartment balcony. On the ground there was total chaos. People were screaming,
shouting and running for their lives.
Suddenly, there was a knock on Joon Woo’s main door. When he opens his door, his neighbor
barges in and says my brother has become a zombie, I don’t have space to live, he requests
Joon Woo for the stay. Joon Woo was already scared shitless, so he ordered that guy to
get out immediately. He even threatened him with a golf stick. Now that guy starts to
leave after using Joon Woo’s bathroom, but before he could move out, he also starts showing
symptoms of zombies, his eye turns red and within seconds he turns into a full-fledged
zombie. He attacks Joon-Woo. Joon-Woo fights with that guy and kicks him out of his apartment
door. But sadly, that guy was killed by another big zombie who then ate him alive. Yes, these
zombies were not only attacking humans but also eating other zombies for sustenance.
TV News reports also confirm this behavior.
After some time Joon-Woo gets a message from his parents, they say they are safe as off
now, his dad strongly shouts a message. Stay alive, stay alive. Now Joon-Woo sticks this
message on his family photo as a reminder. He now starts to ration his food.
DAY TWO.
Next day Joon-Woo sends an SOS message with his name and address through his social media
account. With the help of his drone, mobile and VR headset, he watches his destroyed neighborhood.
Sometimes later he lost his Wi-Fi network. At night a lady police officer tries to escape
the zombie zone with a service gun. She kills a couple of zombies, but eventually she becomes
the victim of zombies. Joon-woo watches this horrifying scene from his balcony, he tries
to help by shouting which unfortunately gives his location to zombies. These zombies still
had some brain function, they had some skills of their host, their hearing was normal. As
soon as Joon-Woo shoots one big zombie, another one comes to his apartment, barges in and
attacks Joon-woo.
Joon-woo tricks him, which results in his death as he jumped from his balcony. Here
that officer's loaded gun was lying vacant on the ground.Next day Joon-Woo runs out of
drinking water. He starts drinking his father's hard liquor for sustenance. He now covers
his balcony windows too. Day10.After ten days of drinking with little to no food, Joon Woo
was weak. He tries to switch on the radio from his mobile phone but fails. Since he
didn't have a 3.5 mm audio jack which was required as an antenna. Meanwhile he starts
to hallucinate about his parents and sister. Then he receives an audio message from his
dad, it was his last message. Joon-Woo clearly hears his parents, sister screaming and becoming
a zombie. He breaks down, he has lost all his hope, in a rage of revenge he moves out
of his apartment and starts attacking zombies. When the remaining zombies overpowers him,
he runs back to his apartment.Day20.Now the government starts bombardment along the outskirts
of the city. Joon Woo has also lost all his hope, desire to live and, most importantly,
food. He decides to commit suicide by hanging. When he was halfway through, a laser light
distracts him, points his attention towards an idiom portrait in his house. The idiom
says “faith is the reality of what you want, it's a proof of the invisible”. Joon Woo
was delighted, he turned towards the source of light. It was coming from the opposite
apartment where a young teenage girl was standing. Her name was Yoo Bin. She has been stuck there
for the last 6 days.
Next day Yoo bin kills a zombie with a hand-held hatchet. She was tough, aggressive compared
to Joon Woo. Since zombies used to move towards sound, these two starts talking in sign language
and writing on the mobile screen. Yoo Bin observed that the 8th floor of Joo Woo’s
apartment was empty, which was also the top floor of the building.
Now Yoo Bin plans for a direct thread line between her and Joon Woo so that they can
share food. She attaches a string to a baseball ball and throws it as hard as possible. Unfortunately
it falls on the ground. Joon Woo now gets her plan. He attaches a thread to his drone
and flies it directly to Yoo Bin’s apartment. Yoo Bin shares some of her food with Joon
Woo. After some time a firefighter zombie finds Yoo Bin’s ball and pulls the string
attached to it. That string was attached to a table in Yoo Bin’s house, as soon as he
pulled it, the table moved and hit Yoo Bin. It knocks her down. Apparently, these zombies
would retain their hosts some skills, which in this case was climbing. He starts climbing.
Joo Woo tries to distract him with his drone but fails. Zombie catches that drone in midair
and smashes it. As soon as that zombie reaches Yoo Bin’s balcony, Yoo Bin wakes up and
kills that zombie with her hatchet. The zombie falls to the ground directly.
Now at night Joo Woo sneaks into his neighbor’s house by lifting the key from a dead zombie
who barged into his house. He sees a dead body of a lady. He lifts some food items from
the kitchen, from the store room he picks up a 3.5mm audio jack, a couple of walkie-talkies
and stuff relating to mountain hiking. Apparently, the brother of that dead zombie was some sort
of hiking enthusiast who is now a zombie. Exactly at that time that zombie guy comes
out of the blue and attacks Joo Woo. Joon Woo narrowly escapes with little fight. He
tries radio by attaching this new audio jack to his cell phone, but it turns out the radio
was also down. He now transports some food and a walkie-talkie to Yoo bin.
Both talk for the first time. For a few days both share food and their background. Yoo
Bin says she is scared of heights. As we see, both collect water directly from rain whenever
it rains. After a couple of days, zombies become aggressive as they are also not getting
any fresh food. Both agree that it is not safe to stay in their apartments any longer.
Yoo Bin suggests the idea of shifting to the 8th floor as it seemed there was no one. Both
now jump from their apartment with the help of a rope. Here we see some brilliant action,
both were on a killing spree, they kill zombies left, right and center. Yoo Bin collects the
officer’s gun lying on the ground and shoots at the zombies. They somehow manage to reach
the lift and the 8th floor thereafter. But their bad luck was one step ahead, zombies
were following them and again started attacking. But this time a new guy opened the door of
his apartment and drags both of them inside, thus saving them.
He gives them food and water. Yoo Bin was initially skeptical, but eventually she ate
the food. He has drugged the food which knocks both of them out. Apparently, his wife was
a zombie, he kept her locked up in his bedroom, she was hungry for many days. He now through
Yoo Bin as food to her. Joon Woo wakes up and threatens him with the gun. But that guy
didn’t bulge, this gun peddling video gamer couldn’t garner enough strength to shoot
in real life.
Meanwhile, in the room, Yoo Bin tricks that zombie by covering her face with a cloth and
releases her onto her husband. When the lady zombie was attacking, she picked up a gun
from Joon-woo’s hand and shot both of them in the head. The gun sound makes the remaining
zombies on the ground flock towards their apartment.
Yoo Bin thinks she was infected too, asks Joon Woo to mercy kill her to which Joon Woo
declines. Then they hear the sound of a helicopter hovering around their apartment, they run
towards the roof as zombies also follow them. When they reached the roof, there was no one.
They shoot their remaining bullets at zombies and were praying for a miracle. The miracle
happens, and after a few minutes an army helicopter arrives there. The army team kills a few zombies
and rescues Joon Woo and Yoo Bin. Joon Woo gets his mobile signal back. It had a ton
of messages from his friends and followers. We see lots of people were using social media
to send their location. Joon Woo’s initial post had 1200+ likes which eventually helped
him in his rescue. The film ends here. So this is the new zombie film alive. The
film is pretty straight forward, it has suspense, horror, emotional element and good music.
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