Greetings!
Seeing a South Korean mystery thriller movie today really made my day. Though I'm not a fan of South Korean movies, this one I just finished watching really made me feel fulfilled as it's full of intrigue and suspense.
The movie Wall to Wall is a movie that is really worth watching and I would like to watch it over and over again. The movie was directed and produced by Kim Tae Joon and it starred actors Kang Ha-nuel, Yeom Hey-ran and Seo Hyun-woo. One thing is that, if you are not familiar with Korean movies, these aforementioned names would be kind of strange to you.
These aforementioned actors acted their roles very well as directed by the movie director. For someone like Hang, he acted as Woo sung, also, Yeom and Seo acted as Euh hwa and Jin-oh respectively.
Euh hwa in the movie acted as the apartment representative and she acted well while Jin-ho acted as an investigative journalist, though his role was made known towards the end of the movie as he was only known to be an occupant of the apartment.
THE PLOT
The movie wall to war is about a guy named Woo Sung, who bought an apartment for a huge amount of 1.1billion south korean currency, but due to the the economic situation, the value of the apartment depreciated and he was looking for a way to get off the debt which he used to get the apartment.
So, for this reason, he picked up a daily delivery job and it's in that job he was introduced to a crypto investment by one of his friends who he told he has no more, but that his friend told him to take a loan which idea he first rejected, but when he realized that would help him to be free from debt, he opted to sell his apartment to fund the crypto investment.
After doing this, he started monitoring the investment on phone but on the said date of which he would cash out on the investment, he was arrested for what he has always been accused of in this apartment which is noise. This has always been going on in the apartment and he had always been accused of this in the building. So, he was unable to sell the GB coin at the right time and for this reason, he lost everything.
After losing everything, he tried to commit suicide, but as he was trying to jump off the skyscraper building, he heard a noise from the apartment underneath him which is 1301, so he tried to check what was going on. It's in the process of going downstairs that he was intercepted by Jin-ho who beats him black and blue. But when he explained himself to him that he was not guilty of the accusation they both planned to get to the root of the matter.
It's in the course of getting to the root of the matter that they both went to the penthouse when Woo, was invited by the building representatives. So when they both got there, Woo ransacked the apartment but found nothing but was later caught by the husband of the representative.
After their failed plan at the Penthouse apartment, they ejected out of the apartment and it's after that that Woo got to know that Jin-ho was the brain after what has been happening this he got to after ransacking his apartment after he had trickishly changed the key, it's there he was caught by Jin-ho and was implicated for the death of the wife of one of the occupant who was used by Jin-ho to implicate Woo.
The incident and the quest of Woo to recover his apartment led him to gang up with Jin just to get the ledger that Jin wanted to have access to from the penthouse. So, they both went to the penthouse with the body of the woman and on getting to the penthouse, Jin attacked the husband of Euh hwa and threatened to kill the woman herself, but after everything, all of them except Woo died.
So, after they had all died, Woo set the apartment ablaze and moved out of the apartment, it's after he had moved out that he slumped and was taken to the hospital for treatment. After he had been treated at the hospital, he went straight to his childhood base and afterwards left there for his recovered apartment where he heard the noise again and burst into laughter.
ANALYSIS AND SUMMARY
The movie is an interesting one and seeing the movie and all what happened in it, one would see that this life is full of mysteries and complexities. For instance, Woo got an apartment for a huge amount of money, but could not even recoup the said money as everything had decreased through the economic situation. That's what is obtainable in the society of today.
Aside from that, I would say he didn't really enjoy what he got with his money as the issue of daily noise as orchestrated by his co-tenant would not even allow him to have peace of mind to enjoy what he used his money to get. Such is life though as the issue of co-tenant in this my part of the world would always exist and give me a headache.
Also, the issue of debt as owed by the young man as a result of the purchase of the apartment to me is worrisome. In fact, Woo lived all his life in debt in the movie, even when he tried to sell off the property, the terms of the contract were a little bit harsh on him. That's another series case in the movie that's depicting what many people are facing in the real world.
Furthermore, the manipulation of Woo by Jin is another thing that baffled me in the movie, though, Woo thought he had an ally who would fight with him to recover his asset, not knowing he was the one behind his numerous problems including his loss in his investment to the GB coin. This is actually an act of betrayal.
Also, the fraudulent action of the building representative and her husband cannot be overlooked in the movie, Euh hwa to me was to be a good woman to Woo not until she showed her true colour toward the tail end of the movie as she was being accused of her fraudulent acts, which she buttressed in her speech while addressing Woo, telling him that the house is not the problem but the people living there in. She said if the construction had been good, the price would have been high for someone like Woo to be able to get it.
Likewise, there's an issue of betrayal, lack of trust, killings, debt intrusion, trespassing and the likes in the movie.
One thing I liked about the movie is the suspense. Also, the pictures are crystal clear and the subtitles were accurate. The characters also performed better and even the storyline depicts to us what many are passing through in the real world.
RATING
I would like to rate the movie 7/10.
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Poster picture sourced.
All other images are from the movie's screenshots.