On January 20, the K movie ‘Jung_E’ was finally released on Netflix. It’s a movie that became famous for Kang Soo-yeon‘s posthumous work, so I’ll summarize the reviews. “Jung_E” is an SF film about developing the best battle A.I. by cloning the brain of the legendary mercenary “Jung_E” to end the war in Shelter, which has moved out of the ruined planet due to climate change.
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The film attracted a lot of attention in that it was directed by Yeon Sang-ho, who directed “Train to Busan” and “Hell,” and became a posthumous work of the late Kang Soo-yeon. Kang Soo-yeon played Seo-hyun, a team leader who develops legendary hero Jeong-yi through brain cloning procedures in Cronoid, and she is Jeong’s daughter. And the main cast members are Kim Hyun-joo and Ryu Kyung-soo.
From now on, let’s take a closer look at the review of Jungyi’s movie Netflix.
● Genre: SF, action, cyberpunk, dystopia
● Director: Yeon Sang-ho
● Starring actors: Kang Soo-yeon, Kim Hyun-joo, Ryu Kyung-soo
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● Release Date: January 20, 2023
● Production cost: 20 billion
● Screening length: 98 minutes
● Screening grade: 12 years of age or older
In 2194 humans left the Earth devastated by climate change and migrated to space by creating shelter. But there’s a civil war, and to end the decades-long war, the Cronoid Institute is trying to clone the brains of the legendary mercenary, the Zhengyi, to develop the best combat A.I.
However, their research has repeatedly failed, and Seo-hyun, the project’s director, is trying to escape Jung-i because she has not made progress in cloning and simulation for 35 years, so she is trying to use it for another purpose.
Netflix movie Jung_E is director Yeon Sang-ho’s fourth full-length live-action film, and director Yeon Sang-ho, who has been recognized for both his work and box office performance in every work such as “Hell,” “Penguin,” and “Train to Busan,” has newly released A.I.
It can be said that the story of the play is better than the production of Jeong_E. Director Yeon Sang-ho is an excellent storyteller. His directing skills are not bad, but above all, he writes a really interesting story. In addition, Jung’s positive evaluation can be seen as director Yeon Sang-ho’s imagination and idea hidden in the movie, and as it turns out that “AI Jung_E,” which seemed like a human at first, is actually a robot, I naturally become immersed in the movie. In addition, the process of AI Jeong’s mission is described as a game, which maximizes the effect of the genre of SF in that it makes the audience feel as if they are immersed in the game.
Another advantage is the actors’ acting, which combines the human body with AI, and Kim Hyun-joo’s acting is smooth, so there is no sense of alienation and even high-level action acting, which has been difficult to see in Kim Hyun-joo’s work, so I hope she will continue to challenge the action genre.
Kang Soo-yeon, who plays the role of mother and daughter Jeong_E, participated in Cronoid’s plan to leave Jeong-i as a “hero” rather than a “failure” and played a character who eventually freed Jung-i, a robot in pain and death, in repeated experiments.
It can be seen that it plays a big role in drawing sympathy from the audience by portraying the conflict between the feelings of the daughter and the conflict between the two as well as Kang Soo-yeon. It’s an obvious scene, but I think the depth of the work is added because Kim Hyun-joo and Kang Soo-yeon played it.
However, it is a movie that leaves a lot of regrets. First of all, the idea and imagination of the movie are good, but I feel that the detailed setting and story development are a little lacking. I’m sorry for the plot and the ending that will support my amazing imagination.
In addition, I feel curious and immersed in the first half of the movie, but I feel like I’m losing my energy rapidly toward the second half, and I’m sad that it would have been better if the character was more colorful and the theme was new. Although it has created a new worldview, the movie’s theme is the destruction of the future global environment, space migration, and conflict between rich and poor, and the story of mother-daughter relationships is repeated, so the process of revealing motherly love is not new.
I had an expectation that it would be a different movie, but as the story of motherhood continues to flow like other works, I think I have no choice but to feel corny. However, as in Busan and the peninsula, the new wave does not occupy a large part of the play and is treated briefly, so it has a lighter taste.
The Netflix movie Jeong_E is a work that constantly asks questions about the existence of A.I. Jeong, who is A.I., is not a human being, but it is the same as humans who feel emotions and pain like humans through the cloned brain, and the researchers repeatedly fail, discarding Jeong_E and thinking it as a consumable item.
It was a movie that made me think about whether I could really clone people’s brains and live forever in the future. A robot or an artificial human that cloned a brain like that leaves a variety of questions and concerns, such as whether it is the person I knew or whether it is composed of only memories. As the story began with a fresh imagination, I am a little disappointed that the ending would have been clearer.
