Film: The Call
Starring: Park Shin-hye, Jun Jong-seo, Kim Sung-ryoung, EL, Park Ho-san, Oh Jung-se, Lee Dong-hwi, Um Chae-young
Director: Lee Chung-hyun
Rating: ***
Reviewer: George Sylex
Overview - Most films these days are about narrative curves. You understand what the curve will be before you even stroll through the entryway. Indeed, as a rule, the circular segment is explicitly what you're paying for. Rom-coms show individuals experiencing passionate feelings for, defeating hindrances, and in the long run ending up together. Horror films have individuals confronting dangers and getting executed, save for those a couple of fortunate ducks who by one way or another endure. There's nothing inalienably amiss with these narrative curves, yet it's unquestionably an uncommon treat to discover a film that totally astonishes you from moment to minute. Lee Chung-Hyeon's The Call is simply such an extraordinariness.
Seo-yeon (Park Shin-Hye) has had an awful day, angrily visiting her wiped out mother in the emergency clinic, bothered to visit her dad's grave. To finish it off, she lost her mobile phone on the train back to the town where she grew up and the monstrous house Mom (Kim Sung-Ryung) has clutched every one of these years. Fortunately, she finds the cordless telephone. In any case, when it rings, she hears an unglued, confounded voice that doesn't bode well. It takes her some time to sort out that the voice is that of somebody who used to live there. It takes her a more drawn out while to persuade the voice on the opposite end, Young-sook (Jong-seo Jun) that her 1999 "present" isn't Young-sook's present.
Blending secret, dramatization, and a decent measure of rushes, The Call has loads of fun with its wild, equal timetable reason. Director Lee Chung-Hyeon molds his art well indeed, regardless of what the class. The film has a striking setting for the material and he never veers into paying attention to it as well. Equipped with a remarkable idea, Lee continues to settle on profoundly capricious decisions in his shooting and his altering that keep you unsuspecting. He outlines shots and stages activity in secretive manners that quickly retain their importance, at that point out of nowhere adjusts them properly. He presents emotional advancements where you don't anticipate them, or unexpectedly removes from huge occasions when you're not envisioning it. Hyeon plays with some clever time-travel turns without making us feign exacerbation at all the impossibility. It helps that he has an awesome cast, driven by Park Shin-hye and Jeon Jong-seo.
The whole weight of The Call is conveyed nearly by two characters Seo-yeon and Young-sook. Clearly, there are a considerable amount of supporting characters too and they do play enormous parts. In any case, the whole plot and advancement of the story come from only two characters. Park Shin Hye offers an alternate aspect of her acting abilities. The conviction with which she moves from every feeling without breaking a sweat. Notwithstanding, Jun Jong Seo's heavenly exhibition captures everyone's attention. The entertainer expositions the function of an intellectually influenced mass homicide and she is ruthless! Jun Jong Seo not just lights a feeling of dread with her presentation yet additionally keeps the watchers locked in.
Consistently tossing dull plot goes to shock us, the film adroitly dials here and there the degree of pressure, and Lee Chung-hyun and his group individuals including cinematographer Jo Young-jik and proofreader Yang Jin-mo, who as of late got Oscar nomination for Parasite, made an able showing of gathering anticipation and fear on the screen. Albeit Lee's screenplay feels thought up occasionally, it handles well the dynamic improvement of its two principle characters' relationship along the plot, and that is one of the primary reasons why the normal climactic succession chips away at passionate level.
Final Word - In the event that you've never experienced Korean science fiction this is anything but an awful spot to begin. The reason is surely irregular and the film figures out how to nail the perfect measure of terrifying strain over its run-time. For those more acquainted with the idiosyncrasies and figures of speech in Asian film and dramatizations, The Call is a pacey, agreeable thriller demolished by a last offer to go for a spin-off and unfit to very take advantage of its gifted cast close by.
A Watchable Korean Thriller!
