"Now, our school is ..." is redefined zombies in the Corona era.

Updating the first place in the world for nine consecutive days

The worldwide hit of "Ika Game" is a new Korean drama in memory, but apparently a work that followed.The zombie drama "Our school is now ..." (12 episodes in all), which started distribution on Netflix on January 28.

The content is "school zombie".As the infection is growing, it is a work that carefully depicts the survival of isolated students in the school building.Most of the stories are set in high schools in Korea, and most of the casts are young actors who are not well known.Nevertheless, it has been a huge hit shortly after distribution around the world, including Europe and the United States.

In the ranking of Netflix announcement, the first place in the non -English drama was recorded (January 30).It is the top performance, including English dramas and movies (English / non -English).In addition, the ranking site of video distribution services, FLIXPATROL, has been ranked first in 40-50 countries, including Japan, on the 9th of the distribution start date (the fifth week of 2022).This is the momentum approaching the "squid game", which was the biggest hit in Netflix.

Why are you attracted to "our school now ..."?

A big zombie outbreak in a Korean high school

The stage of "Our school is now ..." is Hyosan High School in a local city.The story goes on a journal of the mediocre second -year high school second -year student, Park Jif.She goes to school with her childhood boy, Chung San (Yoon Chang Young), but is secretly attending Suhyuk (Park Solomon).

The expansion of zombie infection was triggered by a female student bitten by a hamster kept in the science room.She develops the onset and is confined by a scientific teacher who developed the virus, but she manages to escape.However, the infection is expanding at a stretch from a public health teacher who has been bitten by her.

The timing was just lunch break.Many students had lunch in the cafeteria, but there were students who were zombie and approached there.In the shouting of the Ana, 13 Angu managed to escape to the classroom.However, zombies approach there.They move in the school building while avoiding zombies and aim to escape.

Ideas to visualize "infection" = zombies

In the first place, zombies have aspects as a solution when dealing with the motif of infectious diseases in video works.Invisible viruses and bacteria are difficult to express as images, and movies that handle infectious diseases themselves are less likely to lead to big hits.For example, the movie "Containage", which was re -evaluated at the beginning of the new Corona pandemic, was not a hit enough to be able to collect the production costs at the time of its release in 2011 (Reference "Protein the new Corona in 2011.Movie "Contestaong" "March 31, 2020).

In this way, zombies are an idea of visualizing "infection".It would be the biggest invention in a movie with a history of nearly 130 years.

George A. Romero's film "Night of the Living Dead", released in 1968, was a major point in its history.Zombies have developed while creating various variations based on this work.

Until the early 1980s, it was often treated as a cult movie, but it was probably a 14 -minute music video of Michael Jackson, which was announced in 1983, that has become a major in the world.

Zombie virus from the new Corona era

Although it is a zombie work that has expanded to the whole world, it has been differentiated in two main points.One is the characteristic of zombies and viruses, and the other is the social environment surrounding zombies.The global hit of "Now, our school is ..." is nothing but the excitement of both.

First of all, the former is that the ecology of the zombie itself has no distinctive feature (running zombies are no longer unusual), but the point is that the origin of the virus is clear and the symptoms after infection are complicated.

Above all, it is characteristic that there is a "half zombie" that does not completely zombie.He is a human consciousness, but also has the ability as a zombie."Half -zombie" appears in "Ium a Hero" and "Demon Blade" (although not zombies), but "Our school is now ..." has a large character after the middle stage.Demonstrate the feeling.The existence of both enemies and as a friend has a new stimulus to zombies and humans.

There is also a description that leaves a large mystery.As you can see from the first episode, the protagonist, Onjyo, is bitten by his classmate infected in the health room and is treated.But she hasn't developed since then.The reason is not explained at all.

If it was in front of the new Corona, this would be accepted as a mere script.But in the last two years of Pandemic, we have gained knowledge of viruses and read the possibility of asymptomatic infection there.

If this depiction is intentional, it will be a red definition of zombies because of the new Corona era, and it will be a big hint to the sequel that will probably be created in response to this hit.

Sewol accident that emerges in zombie works

Another point is that it is set in a Korean high school.As with conventional global hits, such as "Family under the parasite semi -basement" (2020) and "squid game" (2021), modern Korean society has been firmly incorporated.

The drama begins with the bullying scene of high school students, but the origin of the zombie virus is the trigger.A girl student, Unji (Oh, Hess), who has received a fairly intense bullying in the work, is drawn in Korea.

And Giinam (Yu Ins), who was bullying her, is also in the bad group.Zombies occur in these school hierarchies.

The relationship between the students who continue to survive is jerky due to the economic disparity of the home.Above all, Nayon (Lee Yumi), who lives in the wealthy Goated Community, hits her in her residence and scatters her classmates terribly discriminatory.Her unmanned behavior is just watering the teamwork in a closed environment.

And the high school students are in this extreme situation reminiscent of the Sewol sinking accident in 2014.

The accident, which was a second -year high school student on a school trip out of more than 300 victims, was more important to the presence of adults, including captains and crew members who abandoned the students on board.This work also depicts selfish and irresponsible adults.The principal is abandoned and trapped in the room, and other teachers confuse the students with self -righteous actions.

In the middle of the story, the scenes in which students continued to survival leave a message on the video camera was the sad video seen in the Sewol accident.

Even in a setting that is impossible with a zombie motif, Korean society emerges firmly.That is a big difference from the conventional Hollywood masterpiece, and at the same time, it is a great advantage when transmitting globally through Netflix.

Due to the new Corona era

The characteristics of zombies and viruses and the social environment surrounding zombies ── "Now, our school ..." is different from past zombies.

But the overall approach is also a very straightforward ball.The two points just bring the reality line closer to reality, and does not adopt acrobatic techniques.

There is no comedy taste like the New Zealand movie "Brained" (1992), and the Japanese manga and anime "Gakkogurashi!There is no strange lightness like (2012 /2017).Or, there is no cheapness like a B -class work that has been created as a lot in the United States.

The methodology is close to the "squid game" that handles death games.What happens if a zombie occurs in South Korea today?

But if you think about it, it's probably necessary to take such an approach because it was the new Corona era.As mentioned earlier, we have gained knowledge of infectious diseases as incomparable to Corona.For us, we have been facing the reality of the corona evil, the hurdles of zombies may have risen significantly.

It is convincing that the characters will leave more and more in this work because they know the fear of the virus.Now, even in zombie works, the world is not in a mode where you can enjoy changing balls.That's because of this era, "Now, our school is now ...", which redefines zombies, was a huge hit.

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