Cannes was shaken on Friday by the South Korean virus, a film about bio-terrorist attacks on passenger planes.
Eerily aroused the ongoing Covid Pandemic, ‘Emergency Declaration’ by Director Han Jae-Rim told the story of a biochemist who spread the virus like a deadly Corona on an airplane.
When passengers start dying with messy, the police in the land of the struggle for the solution.
The critics on the first screening of thrillers instinctively adjusted their masks – which were obliged during Cannes playback – because they witnessed the fictional virus, air spreads into the plane.
But while the actual coronavirus pandemic towered during the film’s film ‘Emergency Declaration’, it was never meant as a theme.
“It’s not ‘covid, film,'” Director Han insisted.
“When we prepare for the film, there is no Covid-19.
We know SARS, but no one talks about Coronavirus,” he told AFP.
“At one level, this film action, I want to make it entertain,” he said.
“But I also want to show how people react when they are faced with disasters.”
The sequence of fast-paced actions and strict storyline made a 147-minute film flying, with Han said he aims to ensure that “the situation is shown in a very realistic way” without sliding to “cliche” that induces panic.
For the cabin scene by plane in Tailspin, the crew builds a rotating cylinder, with a camera operator that is filming inside, tied tightly to rig.
“It’s something that even Hollywood doesn’t do it often,” Han said.
Many scenes are filmed with handheld cameras so “viewers get a full experience on the plane, and not just the far audience,” he added.
– ‘Humanity made progress’ – Han goes further, exploring fear, cowardice and selfishness triggered by the virus crisis, but also courage, solidarity and self-sacrifice.
“There is a coward, some escape, but you can also see it, regardless of everything, humanity makes progress because there are always people with courage,” Han said.
Film Making, which is completely occurring during a pandemic, briefly interrupted in the summer of 2020 when there is a virus scaring one of the actors who come into contact with a positive case, but eventually tested negatively.
“At first I thought Covid could help viewers to truly immerse themselves in the film,” Lee Byung-Hun’s main actor said told AFP.
But when a pandemic spread, he began to worry.
“When reality becomes stronger than fiction, film strength can be reduced.
But now I realize that the viewers with Covid experience can plunge into the film even more intense,” Lee said.
Apart from Lee, a superstar in Korea but also in Hollywood thanks’ G.I.
Joe: The rise of Cobra ‘and’ The Magnificent Seven ‘, the film also featured Jeon Do-Yeon, who won the best actress award in Cannes in 2007.
Song Kang-ho, other famous Korean actors who sit in the main jury of the festival this year, play a police chief.
South Korea – which won the last 2019 palm d’Or with ‘parasite’ bong joon-ho – has a famous booming film industry because of the hard thrillers and often becoming a flick horror filled with gore.
The premiere ’emergency declaration came out of the competition in Cannes, which was closed on Saturday.