Since " Extreme Career " won one-sided positive reviews from the audience in 2019 and the impressive box office results of nearly 140 billion won, Korean comedy movies have developed rapidly. Many interesting works on the themes such as "OK Boss Lady ", " Extreme Escape ", " Secret Zoo " also appeared like mushrooms after a rain. This time, the same is true for "6/45". With the demilitarized zone on the border of the peninsula as the background, the audience is looking forward to what kind of story it will tell.
In the hot-stopping snack bar where business is booming, we often see many wine promotion ladies in uniforms sent by wine merchants shuttled between the tables to promote wine to guests. Faced with heavy performance pressure, in addition to their beautiful appearance, they will also hold lottery events for promotions, or accompany lottery tickets and other gifts to attract customers to buy wine and refills. "6/45" is used to create this to bring a more diverse look to Korean comedy movies.
Although the lotto carries everyone's deep yearning for "making a fortune", as a wine promotion gift, it immediately becomes waste paper garbage that people throw away casually in that occasion. Therefore, the lottery ticket in the film "6/45" that should have belonged to the customer also drifted to the hands of a soldier who had nothing to do with it, and developed an interesting story beyond the audience's expectations.
Since 1953, the border of the peninsula has established a buffer zone for the demilitarized zone based on 38th parallel . However, even so, since the peninsula is still hostile to this day, the sides of the demilitarized zone with a width of about 4 kilometers are still one of the most soldiers in the world. The protagonist of "Qian Yu" in "6/45" is a soldier serving here.
After more than a year of military career, Qian Yu has less than 100 days left before he retires from the army. As a soldier commander, he can be said to be an invincible existence in the entire military camp. In addition to routine work, he just lives leisurely and lives such a relaxed and comfortable life. However, after he picked up a lottery ticket worth 5.7 billion won, a major change he had never imagined.
Originally, Qian Yu had planned to use the money after he was discharged from the army to achieve the dream he longed for throughout his life, but unexpectedly, a strong wind came, blowing the lottery ticket in his hand over the iron railing of the demilitarized zone, "floating to the north" and falling into the hands of a North Korean soldier "Rong Hao". What kind of conflict sparks will the two soldiers who are at the forefront of the battlefield and are incompatible with each other because of this priceless lottery?
is just like Korean film and television works such as "Assistance 2: International", "Book House (Korean Version)", " Agent " a while ago. Although the description of the relationship between the peninsula and the demilitarized zone is still hostile, there have always been political and economic exchanges between the peninsula, whether on or under the table, and there are also citizens who hope that each other can move towards a path of peaceful reunification. Therefore, creating in an ambiguous and vague place in the "Demilitarized Zone" and combining it with the theme of treasure hunting also gives "6/45" a unique charm.
And the story of "6/45" was unfolded after Rong Hao picked up Qianyu's lost lottery tickets. As a North Korean, he was unable to receive the lottery tickets issued by South Korea, so he found Qianyu who entered the demilitarized zone and asked him to help receive the prize with a 10% reward. However, Qianyu, as the original holder of the lottery ticket, certainly did not accept such a ridiculous condition and tried his best to retake the lottery tickets from him, so as to facilitate the development of a mutually suspicious but had to cooperate.
It turned from Qian Yu and Rong Hao sneaking out to discuss conditions in the middle of the night and finding helpers to assist in the negotiations, to being discovered by each other's boss and chief officials, it turned into a three-on-three stalemate. As a comedy film with great imagination, "6/45" has successfully eased the fierce hostile conflict on the battlefield through people's desire for money in the repeated "non-summit talks", creating the possibility of joint cooperation for the soldiers of the two sides who had originally drawn their guns.
Therefore, the most interesting thing about the movie "6/45" is that after coordination, the group decided to hand over the lottery tickets to the South Korean side to redeem the prize. However, in order to ensure that both sides keep their trust, Qian Yu and Rong Hao must exchange it in the other party's military camp as "hostages" during this period. Not only are various emergencies making the plot unpredictable, but under the cultural differences on the peninsula, the "disguise" made by the two to not reveal the contents, bringing many interesting jokes.
However, unexpectedly, Qian Yu and Rong Hao, the "exchange soldiers" who had only been in the enemy camp to hide in a low profile for a week, unexpectedly showed up in front of everyone. Ronghao dismantled the mines installed by his companions and saved the lives of South Korean recruits. Qian Yu used his livestock expertise to improve food issues for North Korea and got the opportunity to go to Pyongyang . The two of them successively became the target of attention in the army, which made the road to receiving the award even more difficult.
Therefore, it is like "6/45" that cleverly swept away these thrilling stimuli. Although the whole film uses the border of the peninsula as the background and adds many military camps and people's stereotypes , behind those spoofs that seem to dance "Brave Girls" together, director Park Kyu-tae is actually also looking at the peninsula laughing comedy with a wild imagination, wrapped in the theme full of positive energy.
Peninsula soldiers, who were originally hostile to each other, formed an alliance because of a lottery ticket, and developed a comrade-like emotion. "6/45" did not want to solve complex politically sensitive issues, but temporarily put the unity aside. Through the characters' pursuit of common interests and a happy and fulfilling life, they broke the seemingly unbreakable barriers, showed the core of the entire work, and brought more warmth to people to live in peace. (Today's headlines: Film Critics Group Mtalk)
Overall, "6/45" used "crash landing for lottery tickets" to trigger a battle between the soldiers on the peninsula to jointly divide the prize money. Although it failed to surpass the laughable surprises like "Extreme Career", the director's brain-driven theme idea, coupled with each actor's tacit understanding of the roles in different personalities and backgrounds, not only stirs up many unique new ideas in the film. Watching them from being hostile to each other and gradually eliminating contradictions to finally working together to solve problems, it is both stress-relieving and warm and touching. I believe that it can make people happy and satisfying. Text/Rulu
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