2023-07-18 10:39:00
Laughter, action, exhilaration triplex… Kim Hye-soo and Yum Jung-ah, the shining women’s ‘smuggling’
Input 2023.07.18 (19:39)
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“Has Shinsu improved?” (Jin-sook), “Has it gotten worse?” (Chun-ja)
Poor haenyeo Jin-suk (played by Yeom Jeong-ah) and former haenyeo Chun-ja (played by Kim Hye-soo) exchange slapping twice before talking to each other.
The two, who were once like blood, turned enemies when they were caught smuggling by customs several years ago.
After a chemical factory was built in Guncheon, a fishing village, they had no way to live. However, the customs suddenly come and the haenyeo are arrested, and while they are wandering around, Jin-suk’s father and younger brother die in an accident, and their ‘Han-tang’ comes to an end.
Chun-ja escapes prison by swimming leisurely through the sea. On the other hand, Jin-sook is imprisoned and resents Chun-ja.
Time flies in Myeong-dong, Seoul. Chunja has shed her countryside and her femininity and has become a gorgeous city woman. He heads for Guncheon in a transformed form. It is because he has to engage in smuggling once once more because of threats from Sergeant Kwon (Jo In-seong), who is called the ‘smuggler’. Jin-sook, who needs her money, and Chun-ja, who needs to save her life, puts her old feelings behind and becomes her partner in crime once more.
Director Ryoo Seung-wan’s new film ‘Smuggling’ is a maritime crime action drama set in the fictional city of Guncheon in the 1970s. The image of the haenyeo gradually becoming warriors and the clear story of the good and the punishing of evil are equipped with three elements: laughter, action, and exhilaration. Like director Ryu’s representative works such as ‘Veteran’, ‘Unjust Deal’, and ‘Mogadishu’, the three elements are evenly distributed to give a refreshing followingtaste following viewing.
‘Smuggling’ is the first of four blockbuster Korean films to hit theaters this summer, and it is the only film in which women are the main characters.
If ‘Unofficial Operation’ starring Ha Jung-woo and Ju Ji-hoon, which will be released on the 2nd of next month, puts out a bromance, ‘Smuggling’ will show off a romance led by Kim Hye-soo and Yum Jung-ah.
At first, Chunja and Jinsuk are anxious because they can’t eat each other, but they solve the misunderstanding and become material partners as before. Coffee shop owners Ok-bun (Ko Min-si), Yang Geum-ne (Park Jun-myeon), pig mother (Kim Jae-hwa), Ttok-soon (Park Gyeong-hye), Uk-cheok (Park Cheok-hye), and even haenyeo (Park Joo-bi) complete their dream team. Their purpose is a 300 million won diamond that is said to be thrown into the sea soon and revenge for the past.
Tension and fun increase towards the mid-to-late half, when a full-fledged scam unfolds once morest Jang Do-ri (Park Jung-min), who is holding the smuggling board in Guncheon, and Jang-chun (Kim Jong-soo), a customs officer. Here, the charm of each character and the power of the actors who played them are great. Kim Hye-soo, who said at the production briefing session earlier that she gave “the most vulgar acting out of all the roles she’s played,” perfectly plays the role of a haenyeo-turned-swindler, going back and forth between Madam Jung in “Tazza” and Yeonhong in “Contemplation.”
Park Jung-min as Jangdori and Go Min-si as Ok-bun are in charge of laughter. Park Jung-min takes on a villainous role, but he is a bit of a loser and laughs at every word of his lines. Ko Min-si, who has mainly played elegant or rebellious characters, plays the role of a bursting ‘laughter bell’ in ‘Smuggling’.
By the time you start to feel sad that there are no action scenes in director Ryu’s movie, a war breaks out between Sergeant Kwon’s gang and Jangdori’s gang. Holding knives, axes and chains, they swung at each other without mercy. Although the level is higher than expected, the eyes are closed for a moment, but the splendid hand and foot movements catch the eye once more.
Haenyeo also show spectacular underwater action. A number of strong men hold knives and run at the haenyeo, but they have no chance once morest those who have lived almost their whole lives in the water. Those who swim freely in the sea work together to eliminate enemies one by one. Their stage, the speed of the sea, was expressed realistically enough to give coolness just by looking at it.
Kim Hye-soo and Yum Jung-ah originally mightn’t even swim, and they said they even showed symptoms of panic when they got into the water. However, following going through underwater training for 3 months before filming ‘Smuggling’, I was able to act in a water tank with a depth of 6m. Coach Heejin Kim, a former member of the artistic swimming national team, made their underwater movements more fluid.
Seeing Guncheon in the 1970s is another fun aspect of this film. The production team searched for locations while almost wandering through fishing villages across the country and filmed in Samcheok and Geoje. At that time, the OST (original soundtrack), which exudes that sensibility, is the work of singer Jang Ki-ha, who served as music director. At the time, popular songs and newly created songs were appropriately divided and inserted.
Before the preview held at CGV Yongsan I’Park Mall in Seoul on the 18th, director Ryu expressed his confidence in ‘smuggling’, saying, “It’s a work I made with all my skills.”
At a press conference held following the premiere, he was asked regarding the recent crisis of Korean films.
‘Smuggling’ is expected to compete with the Hollywood action movie ‘Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning One’ starring Tom Cruise and ‘Barbie’ starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, which will be released on the 19th.
A week following the release of ‘Smuggling’, ‘Unofficial Operation’ and director Kim Yong-hwa’s science fiction film ‘The Moon’ will be released one following another, and two weeks later, ‘Concrete Utopia’, a disaster movie directed by Um Tae-hwa and starring Lee Byung-hun, will be released one following another.
Attention is focusing on whether ‘Smuggling’ will take over the box office success of the Korean film ‘Crime City 3’, which recently surpassed 10 million viewers.
Opened on the 26th. 129 minutes. 15 year old viewer.
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