Sometimes we feel that Korean pictures don't get the credit they earn due to being heavily overshadowed by Korean dramatizations. “ Seoul Vibe ” is a movie set in 1988, where a group of people helps a public prosecutor probe a plutocrat laundering chatter. But when effects go awry, doing the right thing becomes a selfish decision, and justice gets particular.
When it comes to the writing itself, it's slick and smart, but we question whether all the corridor of the runtime of nearly 140 twinkles were needed. “ Seoul Vibe ” begins with the group’s reclamation for the charge and traces their successes, failures, and redemptions. It's presumably not the runtime as much as it's our dropped attention span due to every other show or movie just being around 100- 120 twinkles long.
In the stylish corridor of “ Seoul Vibe ” are the actors themselves, and the painlessly swish prosecution of their separate characters. We fell a little in love with Oh Jung Se, who portrays Ahn Pyeong Wook when he's laying out the law for the group. It didn't look like an actor playing a part, but like a man who knows what he's doing when he's controlling someone to get what he wants. And Yoo Ah In as Dong Wook brought such a degree of believability to his character, with his eyeless courage that was balanced by a shrewd calculative nature. Every time he negotiated with one of the characters for a better payout, we were suitable to incontinently see his point and the bold common sense of his move. This is an admixture of clever jotting and strong performance. Yoo Ah In is known for taking up places that challenge the mettle of his craft, and he hasn’t disappointed us so far.
We also noticed commodity when it came to the character of Joon Gi, played by Ong Seong Wu. This is rigorously by way of comparison and isn't a review. Joon Gi had a certain naivete about him. We couldn’t help but wonder that if “ Seoul Vibe ” was made with western actors, Joon Gi would have been less child-like indeed if he retained his wide-eyed quality. The character was portrayed as someone youthful, but we don’t believe he was innocent, considering the people he hung out with. It seems to be a Korean content commonplace to marry inexperience with innocence, or it could just be the actor’s perception of it. We're in two minds about this aspect of the character.
When it comes to the women of the movie, while Yoon Hee, played by Park Ju Hyun, was the frame general, we loved the depiction of Chairwoman Kang, played by Moon So Ri. Her cold event of potentially ruinous news, her quick and perceptive reading of a person, and her wrathfulness at the loss of control over a situation induced us that she was an apt villain for the narrative. And though she's the bad joe then, her response to a pretentious man questioning her authority due to her being a woman was pettily cathartic for us. We wish we saw a scene like that in Indian cinema soon.
As for the comedy in the movie, it wasn't grounded on jokes as important as on the characters ’ responses to situations. For illustration, it was funny how Dong Wook was trying to shirk the bad guys, but he was more upset about his mint-condition Air Jordans being worn. And when Bok Nam kept singing a song, knowing that he was in mortal peril, we chortled out loud. The comedy rudiments in “ Seoul Vibe ” had their slyness on point. As for the music, it really served well to maintain the perfect balance between the feelings of the characters and the situation at hand. Visually, it was beautiful. One doesn’t need to be from Korea to tell that the makers have paid attention to the details of the setting. It's important to flashback that the events of this movie took place in 1988, but it's being presented to followership in 2022. Incorporating the details for their own sake is well and good, but we hail the makers for capturing and pressing the bones that the present-day followership would connect with.
What happens with “ Seoul Vibe ” is that it starts with a fast pace and also slows down as the story builds, only to pick up speed towards the ending again. It's veritably important in line with the progression of the story, and we get an adrenaline rush at just the right moments. We can not say that the conception was entirely original, but the material at hand was taken seriously, which redounded in a product that was both engaging and amusing. “ Seoul Vibe ” is a movie worth recommending to your musketeers. And we can go that everyone-watch would uncover retired Easter eggs. In fact, we anticipate an effect, not because there are questions left to be answered but because of the sheer gift behind the screen that gave an amazing prosecution to what was a “ done before ” plot. This might be just the film that gets people talking about Korean pictures the way they talk about Korean dramatizations. And that's a discussion we eagerly look forward to.