Wonderland actors Bae Suzy and Park Bo-gum.
What if! This may be a extra germane title to this intriguing although not absolutely complete and even coherent Korean characteristic movie on Netflix, about connecting with a beloved one who isn’t any extra.
However wait , this isn’t planchette. You don’t solely get to listen to disembodied voices. You truly get to see and discuss to the darling useless on face-time. No community points.
So is director Kim Tae-yong,in his first directorial in fourteen years (the final movie he directed was the much more lucid Late Autumn) mocking the bereaved? Is Wonderland truly a wakeup name for these dwelling with the useless, telling them with the tongue in cheek that the useless don’t should be out of community space?
In no way! Wonderland is useless severe (if you’ll excuse a morbid pun) about connecting with the useless. Tragically, its bandwidth for bereavement is restricted to solely a few mourners. The remainder of the narrative is blissfully scattered in all places ,gleaning no real perception on what bereavement does to the human soul.
Every part appears to be like too spick and span, unreal and showy, in Wonderland. The real ache of the bereaved is buried underneath a rubble of mirror-like perfection of reflection . It’s like shifting by a room crammed with artefacts that are supposed to symbolize the previous however have simply been purchased from a close-by chor bazaar.
On this weird bazaar, we meet Jeong-in (Bae Suzy) whose beloved Tae-joo (Park Bo-gum) has gone right into a coma after exploring the house. Jeong-in makes use of Artificial Intelligence to attach with him , though we’re instructed that this AI is for connecting with the useless. Possibly further bucks helps attain the comatose additionally.
What retains us from asking too many query and swerves our consideration from the silliness of all of it, are the actors, all dedicated to a trigger that by no means fairly shifts forward of pause. The actor taking part in the comatose astronaut and his ladylove look as if they might fortunately die for each other.
Extra consideration worthy is the bewitching Tang Wei (she was within the director’s final movie Late Autumn as effectively). Right here she performs Bai Li the useless mom of a bit of lady too younger to grasp that her mom is gone perpetually. There’s a modicum of anguish in Bai Li’s efforts to make her baby perceive what it means to lose somebody with out breaking the kid’s phantasm that her mom is useless.
There are seeds in Wonderland of a related, even greatfilm. However the mode of elevating the useless is so video-game like, the whole train appears to cosmetize and trivialize the enormity and fathomlessness of bereavement the place all you need to do is dial the useless, utilizing a cellphone app, for a value in fact.