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The Call Review
GENRE- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Streaming On- Netflix
Language- Korean dubbed English
CAST- Park Shin-hye as Kim Seo-yeon, Jeon Jong-seo as Oh Young-sook, Kim Sung-ryung as Eun-ae, Seo-yeon's mother., Lee El as Ja-ok, Young-sook's mother, Oh Jung-se as Seong-ho, Lee Dong-hwi as Baek Mi-hyun and Park Ho-san as Mr. Kim (Seo-yeon's father)
Directed by- Lee Chung-hyun
Release Date- 27th November, 2020.
Plot- Two people live in different times. Seo-Yeon lives in the present and Young Sook lives in the past. One phone call connects the two, and their lives are changed irrevocably.
Review- The story wears its female-centric quality effortlessly. Even the secondary cast is fuelled by girl power. Director Lee Chung-hyun, who makes his feature film debut with this film, builds a world that’s both familiar and foreign to us which makes the end product both intriguing and chilling. While we are used to time-travel tropes like how a single minor change in the timeline causes a ripple effect, The Call demonstrates this in a visually stunning manner, while also giving us a peek into Korea’s tradition of how it deals with exorcism.
I enjoyed Park Shin-hye’s performance as an innocent girl, which is in complete contrast to her role in the recently released #Alive in which she plays a zombie apocalypse survivor. Jeon Jong-seo as Young-sook is the real star of this film and her descent into madness is brilliant performed and hardly betrays the fact that this is only her second film. The opportunities the script gives the lead characters to play both victim and instigator adds a lot of flair to the film.
PROs-
Extraordinary Acting by all the casts in the quartet.
Screenplay top notch.
Background score and soundtracks mesmerizing.
Direction Beautiful.
FINAL RATING- 8/10
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VERDICT- Despite loopholes, such as a failure to explain how the phone call between the two ladies is possible in the first place, the film manages to have you at the edge of your seat for the majority of its 112-minute runtime. With eerie visuals, dark undertones, a stunning story and exceptional performances to tie them all up, The Call is a feast for fans of the thriller genre.
#RevieWebWed #RWW
© TheUncoveredThoughts
Streaming On- Netflix
Language- Korean dubbed English
CAST- Park Shin-hye as Kim Seo-yeon, Jeon Jong-seo as Oh Young-sook, Kim Sung-ryung as Eun-ae, Seo-yeon's mother., Lee El as Ja-ok, Young-sook's mother, Oh Jung-se as Seong-ho, Lee Dong-hwi as Baek Mi-hyun and Park Ho-san as Mr. Kim (Seo-yeon's father)
Directed by- Lee Chung-hyun
Release Date- 27th November, 2020.
Plot- Two people live in different times. Seo-Yeon lives in the present and Young Sook lives in the past. One phone call connects the two, and their lives are changed irrevocably.
Review- The story wears its female-centric quality effortlessly. Even the secondary cast is fuelled by girl power. Director Lee Chung-hyun, who makes his feature film debut with this film, builds a world that’s both familiar and foreign to us which makes the end product both intriguing and chilling. While we are used to time-travel tropes like how a single minor change in the timeline causes a ripple effect, The Call demonstrates this in a visually stunning manner, while also giving us a peek into Korea’s tradition of how it deals with exorcism.
I enjoyed Park Shin-hye’s performance as an innocent girl, which is in complete contrast to her role in the recently released #Alive in which she plays a zombie apocalypse survivor. Jeon Jong-seo as Young-sook is the real star of this film and her descent into madness is brilliant performed and hardly betrays the fact that this is only her second film. The opportunities the script gives the lead characters to play both victim and instigator adds a lot of flair to the film.
PROs-
Extraordinary Acting by all the casts in the quartet.
Screenplay top notch.
Background score and soundtracks mesmerizing.
Direction Beautiful.
FINAL RATING- 8/10
.
VERDICT- Despite loopholes, such as a failure to explain how the phone call between the two ladies is possible in the first place, the film manages to have you at the edge of your seat for the majority of its 112-minute runtime. With eerie visuals, dark undertones, a stunning story and exceptional performances to tie them all up, The Call is a feast for fans of the thriller genre.
#RevieWebWed #RWW
© TheUncoveredThoughts
