“Hellbound” Judgment from hell kicked Squid game to chicken coop, setting an unprecedented record

Hellbound - Judgment from Hell is a movie invested and produced by Netflix, adapted from the webtoon (online comic) of the same name.

The person "in charge" of this project - director Yeon Sang Ho is no longer a strange name in the movie world. He is the one who made the super zombie product Train to Busan in 2016. Challenging with a drama, Yeon Sang Ho has created a high-class, overwhelming and personal work. Season one of Hellbound with only 6 successful episodes brought viewers to the bottom of emotions, going from bewilderment and indignation to extreme sympathy and existential concern.

Set in the fictional 2023 in Korea, Hellbound depicts a time of crisis for humanity when the "angels" of death suddenly appear. This "angel" gives an oracle, telling the ill-fated that they will have to go to hell at a certain time. At that moment, the trio of "death gods" with grisly appearance will come to find the designated person, perform a "manoeuvre" in broad daylight with gruesome tortures and burn victims alive. hell fire.

Amidst the extreme confusion of the whole society, a cult called the New Truth Society led by Jung Jin Soo (Yoo Ah In) quickly emerged. The young cardinal claimed to have spent many years studying the phenomenon, explaining that it was a signal from God. That these strange creatures are angels sent by God to earth to punish criminals who live unjustly. However, a group called the Arrow Society also joined in support of this argument.

A series of strange events have drawn policeman Jin Kyung Hoon (Yang Ik June) and righteous female lawyer Min Hye Jin (Kim Hyun Joo) into action. They represent citizens who believe in the power of law and a man-made social order. The spiral of crisis inadvertently brought them into direct confrontation with Jung Jin Soo and the Arrow Society. The strange phenomenon has pushed Korean society into a state of polarization and deep division, one atheist and the other believing in a new religion. However, the cults quickly took the matter away, using it to profit and carry out terrorism in the name of God. Conflict, violence escalated, and then the world fell into chaos.

Following in the footsteps of The Squid Game, Hellbound follows the theme of "dystopia" when depicting human society in the dark ages. The film is even bolder when leaning heavily on the "cult film" subgenre, an extremely sensitive and picky genre. Hellbound delves into the darkest corners, mocking the fragility of social institutions and moral systems when people face the fear of death.

Choosing to exploit heavy themes, Hellbound has an extreme and dark expression style. Violence is Hellbound's specialty, so it's labeled 18. The film contains many shocking scenes, recreating the scene of being dismembered, burned alive, the elderly being brutally beaten... The purges from the supernatural forces are inherently bloody and creepy. However, the most shocking is still the way that people use violence to manipulate power and trample their fellow human beings in the name of god.

Hellbound has opened up a new world, where a person is easily labeled as a criminal by the whole society and considered as trash after just a random oracle, their family can't live in peace. next. The audience will be shocked to see the bloody "manifests" broadcast live on television, people eagerly come to watch and leave gloating as if enjoying a play. Besides, the cultists in Hellbound, especially the Arrow Society, are ready to purge those who do not follow the new ideology. If there are signs of rejection, they will be hunted and beaten until they are rabid, even burned alive and hanged in the middle of the road.

Besides existential questions, Hellbound also profoundly reflects the inadequacies in contemporary society. The film sarcastically mocks the superficiality of people in the 4.0 era, when the internet and groundless sensational livestreams are cared for and worshipped, creating raging crowds. Behind the screen, people live with a different face and delight in slandering, fabricating, forcing people to die. The press is "vulture", immoral, following the tastes and easily compromising with the powerful.

Possessing many layers of didactic meaning, however, Hellbound still contains very lifelike slices of the human condition, family affection, solidarity and compassion.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that Hellbound is completely capable of following in the footsteps of Squid Game to become a global TV phenomenon. In terms of message amplitude and creative breakthrough, Hellbound is even better. The visual part of the film is very pleasing to the eye with a variety of camera angles and effects applied reasonably and smoothly. The only difficulty of Hellbound lies in the fact that the content has many "big knives" problems. This is both class, but can also be a double-edged sword. Because if you neglect to watch Hellbound, the audience can easily fall into a state of suffocation by the metaphorical meanings and the constantly rotating plot system. The details related to religion are also quite challenging to the viewer.

Most recently, Korean media reported that the movie Hellbound topped the Netflix chart after only 24 hours of release. This achievement is far ahead of the recent "heavyweight" competitor, "The Squid Game". Previously, the super product Squid Game took 6 days to reach the top 1.

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