Journals

Train to Busan (Sang Ho Yeon, 2016). The purpose of this essay is to analyze the various genres in Train to Busan and to discuss the theories used in this film. The horror genre is to make the audience show expressions of being scared, frightened, panicked and shocked including a fast pace of heartbeat and being on the edge on their seats during the movie. For me, for a horror movie, it will be frightening to me, when I could not sleep after watching it. I will keep on remembering the horrifying scenes of the film and it will cause me to have trouble falling asleep. There are various categories in horror films such as action horror, comedy horror, supernatural horror, zombie horror and etc. The semantic approach theory in films are the visuals shown in the film. Semantic is also known as mise-en-scene. In this film, the locations of the film are in Seoul Station, Daejeon Station and Busan. The scenes are mostly filmed in the train. These location showed us a bit of South Korea on ho...

Memento is a film about a guy named Leonard Shelby, an insurance investigator, who is suffering from an untreatable short-term memory loss called anterograde amnesia. He is trying to track down the person who has raped and murdered his diabetic wife. Leonard wakes up every morning, looking through polaroid images and tattoos that he had captured and inked himself before he sleeps to remember what had happened the previous days or on that particular day, but he remembers what happened before he suffers from the disease. He has telephone conversations in his motel room with people that he has dealt with in the past. There are two scenes filmed in black and white which shows present events and in color that shows past events. With Noah Orent  (n.d) summarizes the movie, "A man juggles searching for his wife's murderer and keeping his short-term memory loss from being an obstacle."  I like the beginning of the film where Leonard is lying on the bed in the motel room that he...

Seoul Station is about a zombie apocalypse that happened in South Korea which first infected an old man. It is directed and written by Yeon Sang Ho who is also the director of the movie "Train to Busan" both in the same year of 2016. Soon, the virus infected almost the whole country. Citizens are running away for their lives to be safe and not get infected by the zombie virus. This movie is a mixed of the thriller and few parts in the comedy genre. A film that is 100% approved by Rotten Tomatoes from 12 movie reviews. There is a scene where a man saw the old man that got his neck hurt and is bleeding a lot, he went around asking for help to cure the old man. He went to nearby clinic to ask for help from a nurse to seek services. She decided to help even though the facility is full by asking one of the patients that is drinking alcohol in the room politely to leave the facility with some medications that she has packed. He even got hit by the patient. He feels bad looking at...