The Flu

2013 "Death goes viral."
6.6| 2h2m| R| en| More Info
Released: 16 August 2013 Released
Producted By: Sidus
Country: South Korea
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A case of the flu quickly morphs into a pandemic. As the death toll mounts and the living panic, the government plans extreme measures to contain it.

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Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Diagonaldi Very well executed
ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.
Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie
Artur Machado A highly contagious and deadly virus spreads in one of Seoul's suburbs, and the army is forced to intervene by setting up a quarantine to prevent its spread. The film starts well, but the second part has several questionably unrealistic situations, diminishing its overall quality. The performances are very good, namely the performance of the cute little girl of only 5 or 6 years old delivering the most emotional and powerful scene in the movie. A film with the same subject of "Outbreak" and "Contagion" but located in South Korea.
madred-rawaz First i have to say this movie was perfect .amazing outbreak movie with amazing cast and amazing director.the story was amazing too it includes Love and courage at the same time.and i have to say that Hyuk Jang and Soo Ae are amazing couple in the movie and even the child Min-ah Park is an astonishing actress.the movie talks about a guy that would do everything for the girl he love.and the director Sung-su Kim made his own perfect movie.this movie is a must watch and it should get a wide release in cinemas.i gave this movie 10/10 it truly deserve it.so thank you Sung-su Kim for making this superb amazing movie.People do you're self a favor don't miss this movie and watch it.The Flu
Peter Scott I must be out of touch with reality but I have to ask, why is the South Korean President portrayed as a supplicating B!%ch in this movie?!?! The movie has a double standard which says: "If the Koreans dealt with the situation on their own they would do so in a much more humane manner than they are forced to by external pressure from the USA". They blame the inhumanity on "forces beyond their control" until some become courageous enough to stand up to the Imperial power. WHAT?We have here a standard tale of infection and quarantine, rendered quite nicely and realistically from the perspective of the South Korean people. We get a great snap shot of South Korean society experiencing the dreaded infection crisis.All of a sudden the Americans are in charge!!! WHY? AND, they are portrayed as the heartless, evil "managers" of the situation. The Koreans seemingly have plans to contain the outbreak when all of a sudden BOOM! USA wants to smack down the whole effort and kill anyone that disagrees "for the sake of the entire world" or my favorite "the whole world is watching you Korea".I thought this was a well done representation of a disease crisis outbreak. I am a big fan of the Zombie and Post-Apocalyptic Genres. However, I was insulted by this simpering deferment that represented the South Korean people as beholden to the will of the US military. Is this really how S.Koreans see themselves in the event of a catastrophe? That the US/UN is going to swoop in and call the shots because of their inadequacies? The feel of the movie suggests that this attitude of officials like the S.Korean President is somehow acceptable. If I was Korean I would be insulted by such obvious and blatant social conditioning and/or stereotyping.As a movie about human beings dealing with crisis, particularly where it focuses on the main characters, is engaging. Hyuk Jang and Soo Ae, along with Min-ah Park are all EXCELLENT. I love the story of them getting to know and love one another to the point of dying for each other. Their relationship makes it all worth while.The nonsense spewed from the officials like the Mayor, President and US overseer is simply outrages. It shows either a complete departure from reality OR is in some way an acceptable "realistic" portrayal that S.Korean audiences would find believable/realistic, and that makes me sad.Also, the subtitles sucked in the version I watched but the fact that I made it through the whole thing speaks volumes about the good parts of the movie as a whole. Maybe if I spoke Korean I wouldn't be as harsh on the officials. For all I know they were telling the USA guy to eat a dick the whole movie and it just got mis-translated.
knightx-1 I thought this may be a movie about an apocalypse but it's just a movie about demonizing human beings who are less fortunate than the citizens of south Korea. This movie perpetuates the "fear of foreigners" and, considering the source of the film, has the audience highly skeptical about our neighbors. Not only does it play upon the fear of illness and death of our mortality, but it blatantly places blame on the immigrants, and it also does injustice to any form of compassion or morality for our fellow human beings. The warning here is: foreigners are bad, they'll kill our families, our children, those foreigners are devils and death!" If you're the kind of person that hates foreigners and want to find excuses to hate them, then this is the movie for you! They should re-title this movie "Why North Koreans have closed their borders!"