Imagine a scene where you're in a mountain of clutter, the darkness and chaos around you make your heart beat faster, and fear follows like a shadow. The kidnapper's voice comes from afar, cold and unforgiving, and he orders you to go live.
This isn't your average stream, it's a life-saving gamble – you'll have to raise a certain amount of money in just an hour, or you'll be crushed along with the abandoned vehicle. In the shadow of despair and fear, what should you do?
Overview of the film
"60 Minutes of Outlaw Live" is a thriller masterpiece written and directed by emerging director Park Dong-hee, which tells the horror of a beauty and lifestyle anchor Yoo Na.
When her channel is about to reach the milestone of one million subscribers, after a party, she encounters a sudden kidnapping that turns her world upside down.
She is imprisoned in the trunk of her own car, her fate hanging in the air like a thin thread about to break. The kidnappers gave her the task of raising a billion won in rewards through live streaming before midnight, otherwise, she would die forever.
Will Yona be able to complete this seemingly impossible task in these critical sixty minutes, or will some other miracle happen to her and escape from the shadow of death?
The cast of "60 Minutes of Outlaw Live" is exquisite and strong, in addition to Park Joo-hyun, who plays Yoo-na, there are also powerful actors such as Kim Ri-jin, Kim Do-yoon, Jung Woong-in and Kim Seok-ho.
However, most of the drama fell on the shoulders of Park Joo Hyun, who showed her extreme acting skills while under tremendous pressure alone in the cramped back compartment. Every breath she takes, every eye contact, makes the audience feel the struggle and fear in her heart.
The length of the film is short, but it leaves no trace
At a short length of eighty-nine minutes, this work seems slightly compact for a commercial film. In particular, the director skillfully used nearly half an hour of time to delicately lay out the rise of the protagonist Youna through two exquisite reversals.
This arrangement occupies nearly one-third of the entire work, as if it were a fascinating prologue. At first glance, this treatment may seem wasteful, but in fact, it just rightly compresses the second half of the kidnapping and escape into a one-to-one tense and exciting hour. This may be the deep meaning of the Chinese title's emphasis on "60 minutes".
In short, in the first half hour, the audience will witness Youna's transformation journey from an ordinary girl. It all started with an unintentional oversight—she forgot to turn off the live stream and unreservedly expose her true thoughts to the public (oh, where do you seem to have seen this kind of plot?). ）。
This unexpected event quickly sparked heated discussions, and Yona's film content became more colorful. She has gradually expanded from documenting daily life to food, makeup, and even traveling...... With a keen grasp of traffic, she gradually built up her own shooting and planning team.
However, if the story is just told like this, it is just a commonplace Cinderella story. So, the director revealed another side of Yona to the audience - after her fame grew, she became a villain who chased interests and betrayed trust.
Such a transformation not only allows the audience to see Youna's path to success, but also reveals the complexity and changeability of human nature more profoundly.
Even if it is murder, it leaves no trace at all
I don't know if it's because of the trend of the times, or if there is some gossip circulating in this circle that is unknown to the outside world, recently, film and television works with "masked Internet celebrities" as the protagonists have sprung up.
Following the "60 Minutes Outlaw Live Broadcast" introduced today, there is also the previous "She's Dead", as well as the "Peerless Internet Celebrity" launched by Netflix, etc., although their narrative techniques are different, they all dig deep and reveal the communication skills and business strategies behind the Internet celebrity circle, depicting all this as both curious and unbearable.
Of course, commercial works often use extreme techniques in order to attract attention, but such depictions undoubtedly have a lot of negative effects on primary and secondary school students who see Internet celebrities as their future career dreams.
The foundation of this film is undoubtedly a flying car movie built on "Fast and Furious". The production team has created works with the theme of road speeding, such as "Speed Express" and "Speed Seoul", so in this film, the footage of road racing occupies a large proportion.
Although these chase scenes are all unfolded against the backdrop of the night, the audience can still feel the crew's careful arrangement and design of each highway scene.
However, when we turn the focus back to the main line of puzzle solving, there is some regret. The key twists on Yoona's abduction, the motives behind the various persecution tactics, and how she ultimately breaks the game are supposed to be gripping key twists that pale in comparison. In terms of tension and reversal, they did not bring the expected shock and amazement.
Still, if the starting point is purely to appreciate Park Joo-hyun's acting skills, this film can definitely be regarded as the masterpiece of her career so far. Her performance undoubtedly adds a lot to the film, transporting the audience into a world full of emotional fluctuations.