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导演：孔秀昌
主演：甘宇成\孙秉浩\吴泰京
类型:恐怖/战争
等级:15岁以上可观看
开画日期:2004/8
官方网站(cool )
http://www.rpoint.co.kr/
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Rview by Darcy(koreanfilm.org)
I liked R-POINT , although I get the impression that it isn't getting a great reception from local critics（转者注：Darcy可能只看到一家之言，因为后来又有人说它在评论界反响很好）. Set during the Vietnam War, and shot in Cambodia, the film mixes the archetypical Korean horror movie and the war movie. It follows a group of soldiers who travel off to a remote zone where soldiers keep mysteriously disappearing. They set off and find the place fairly easily, but then as time passes they realize they have no clue what they're doing, why they're dying, or how to protect themselves. I think the movie's a bit too long (1hr 50min) to hold most viewers' attention, and the really downbeat story isn't going to help it at the box-office（转者注：关于这点Darcy当时真是多虑了，R-point的目前的票房成绩相当不错，走势看好）,but as a film I thought it succeeded pretty well. Gam Woo-sung was really good in the lead role too.-----by Darcy(koreanfilm.org)
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Rview by riccoon
I heard R-Point is probably going to be the best horror this summer due to its tight scenario and acting. It also recieve very good reviews from many critics. I'm looking foward to it, even though it going to be months before the movie comes out on DVD.
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这则新闻是说中国购买了此片的重拍权
''R-Point,'' an upcoming local horror movie set in the Vietnam War, will be remade in China by production companies from South Korea and China. It will be the first time for production companies from the two countries to work together on a film.
The remake will be produced by C & Film, the original producer of ``R-Point'', and a Chinese production company run by Zhang Yimou with investment by CCTV, China's state television company.
The Chinese filmmaker first showed interest in buying the copyright to the story and remaking the movie but the local production company wanted to co-produce the film. e3dward@koreatimes.co.kr
08-09-2004 17:42
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'R-Point' shows new light into horrors of war
Date August 19, 2004
For powerless individuals, war is nothing if not a sheer nightmare. Politicians may talk about the virtue of defending some values, but what matters most is that the sickle of death is always ready to descend on the target - you.
"R-Point," directed by Kong Soo-chang, delves into the innermost psyche of soldiers who have to fight for their lives in the face of inexplicable threats and horror on a remote battlefield in Vietnam in 1972.
First Lieutenant Choi Tae-in (Kam Woo-sung) is living an eventless life after surviving a particularly gruesome battle, with the prolonged war nearing its end in the Southeast Asian country.
Choi is expecting to return home, but then his departure is refused because of an unfortunate accident. Instead, his superiors assign him to a secret mission to find out what happened to 18 Korean soldiers who disappeared six months earlier in an area called "Romeo Point," or R-Point. What's strange is that the missing soldiers seem to be alive, since headquarters has received intermittent calls for rescue.
Choi and eight other soldiers head for R-Point to gather evidence about whether the soldiers are alive or not - and to get to the bottom of the weird phenomena. Awaiting this group of brave soldiers, however, is an ominous sign at the entrance to R-Point: "Those who have blood on their hands will never get out of this place."
As the seven-day operation begins, the soldiers get killed mysteriously, one after another. A sweeping sense of isolation and horror shrouds the area and those unfortunate soldiers who have to stay there, regardless of their wishes to return to Korea and their families.
Given that most local horror flicks have stopped short of meeting expectations in terms of artistic quality and box-office response, "R-Point" stands out as a movie that defies easy definition or classification.
For starters, it hasn't adopted typical horror genre conventions. Its creepy scenes, however, in which characters struggle at a frantic pace to save their lives in a steamy Vietnam jungle, provoke a powerful emotional response.
Notable is a mixture of different souls: those killed in the battle, those who are alive yet deeply scared, and others that hover over the desolate site as ghosts. Uniting them is none other than the war - a war that has no meaning whatsoever at an individual level.
The stakes, however, couldn't be higher for the soldiers on the secret mission to R-Point. Once they complete the mission successfully, they will be able to return home - a dream come true for these men tired of meaningless killings in the name of preserving peace and ideology.
That happy moment, however, is repeatedly and constantly delayed. The soldiers desperately want to get things done and pack up to leave the dreadful site, but things spin out of control, suggesting that something has gone wrong - really wrong.
The process of making "R-Point" was as tough and consuming as the quagmire that grasps the main characters. Korean producers and movie investors didn't like the serious theme, which was deemed to have less commercial potential than cheesy yet profitable genres like romantic comedy. But somehow the director and producers of "R-Point" overcame those obstacles, including costly on-location shooting in Cambodia, to put out the movie.
The men agonizingly depicted in "R-Point" illustrate the cruel meaninglessness of war. They don't know why they have to fight. They don't know what their actions mean in the grand context of history. They don't know how to survive in the brutal environment of jungles fraught with all kinds of danger.
The soldiers try to catch the ghosts. The lost souls and victims of the war seem to stand right in front of the soldiers, but the images soon dissipate into nothingness.
After all the horror, the movie poses for the audience several existential questions: "Who am I? Where am I? Why do I have to do this right now?"
If these fundamental questions strike a chord or two in your heart, it's not a bad idea to watch this film and share the suffering of some ill-fated soldiers.
fm: korea.net
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'R-Point' to Present Different Kind of Fear
by Kim Tae-jong
July 25, 2004
Read: 301
Most horror movies use ghosts or monsters to scare you. But according to Kong Su-chang, director of the upcoming movie R-Point, fear comes from anxiety or pressure of an enclosed place or situation, not just from typical villains.
``That’s why many teenage horror films are set in high schools where teenagers feels stress from everyday life,’’ said Kong, who also wrote the screenplay.
In his debut film, ``R-Point,’’ set in Vietnam War, Kong tries to show the fear soldiers felt in the war where they had to fight enemies while being overtaken with their own anxiety to survive in unfamiliar surroundings.
The film is a fictional account of a group of soldiers who try to search for their missing comrades on an island called ``R-Point (Romeo Point),’’ an army term referring to the place where their search effort is operated from.
Though the mysterious islet is a point of strategic importance, it is notorious for its nickname, ``Jungle of Ghosts,’’ since many people were massacred or went missing there. The islet is located 80 kilometers southwest of Ho Chi Mihn City, Vietnam.
In the movie, first lieutenant Choi Tae-in, played by actor Gam Wu-sung, leads his search team to find 18 missing soldiers. But the question is how the soldiers, who were believed to be dead, can keep sending SOS signals for six months. And when they set out for the R-Point, Choi and his crew tap into the secrets the islet hides.
Although it adopts a mixture of both genres of horror and war flicks, the movie aims to present a different kind of fear from conventional teenage horror tales and war epics like Taegukgi or Silmido.
``The only hope the soldiers had in the war-torn country must have been to survive and get back home safely,’’ said Kong. ``So, I also wanted to add a sense of sorrow and grief of the victims in the movie.’’
Kong has worked on several screenplays, including the 1992 war flick ``Hayan Chonjaeng (White Badge),’’ the 1999 mystery thriller Tell Me Something and horror movie The Ring Virus, also from 1999.
For his new movie, Kong had to stay in Vietnam and Cambodia for about one year to do on-site research and then he spent two years gathering as many stories and scenario works related to the war as possible before he was able to begin shooting the film.
With a comparatively high budget for a horror movie of about 4 billion won, it was shot on location for three months in the jungles of Vietnam.
While making the film, Kang thought of the war in Iraq and the South Korean troop dispatch to the Middle Eastern country.
Kong said war is like a ``vicious circle’’ and was really sad to hear that we will repeat the tragic history again after the Vietnam War. He hopes his movie will give people a chance to think about the government’s decision to send young people to the dangerous country.
(courtesy of KoreaTimes)
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导演：孔秀昌
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