Hijack 1971
Director: Kim Seong-han
Cast: Ha Jung-woo, Yeo Jin-goo, Sung Dong-il and Chae Soo-bin.
When it comes to movies based on true events, whether or not a politically charged occasion or lifetime of a heroic citizen, the largest disappointment for the viewers typically is available in teary moments or a very dramatic ending.
Director Kim Sung-han’s crime motion movie Hijack 1971 follows a easy plot centering on a goodhearted pilot Tae-in (Ha Jung-woo) over its 100-minute-long operating time.
Ha’s portrayal of a former fighter jet pilot Tae-in, who was dismissed from the Air Force for not obeying his superior’s order to shoot down a passenger airplane, is real and down to earth.
The film shortly strikes to two years later, 1971, when Tae-in copilots a passenger airplane certain for Seoul’s Gimpo International Airport from Sokcho in Gangwon Province. Soon after takeoff, an in-flight emergency breaks out as the airplane is hijacked by Yong-dae (Yeo Jin-goo). What does he need? Without clearly saying why, he forces the pilots to redirect the airplane carrying 51 passengers towards North Korea.
‘Sir, please chorus from taking part in cover and search duing takeoff and touchdown.’
Hijack 1971 is based on the hijacking of Korean Air flight F27 carrying 55 passengers and 5 flight attendants on Jan. 23, 1971. Eleven of them are nonetheless lacking and are believed to be caught in North Korea.
Instead of overly dramatising the actual occasion, Kim targeted on creating the characters.
Tae-in is a humane and big-hearted man who prioritizes the security of passengers on this life-or-death scenario. Gyu-sik (Sung Dong-il), the chief pilot, exhibits a mature perspective as a veteran pilot and takes steps as the circumstances demand. Ok-soon (Chae Soo-bin), a younger flight attendant who is prepared to actively assist the pilots, takes the lead by placing the passengers’ minds relaxed.
‘Are you certain you don’t need to have interaction the autopilot whilst you get that eye checked out?’
The actors who performed passengers, equivalent to the CEO of an organization and his govt assistant, a rookie prosecutor and his mom who can’t converse, a newlywed couple, a younger scholar and a girl in her 20s, present life like moments when one’s life is in danger.
Yeo performs a villain for the first time as hijacker Yong-dae, expressing the roughness of a personality who bears a grudge towards humankind after he was falsely charged and imprisoned. His anger solely grows when, upon returning residence, he discovers the physique of his mom who had died alone.
While some might discover Ha and Sung’s reasonably calm appearing all through the film unfamiliar, the duo appears to have targeted on exhibiting a less complicated, restrained appearing. There is not a single scene during which the two change witty jokes, a giant change from Take Off (2009), a movie on ski-jump during which the two actors exchanged a whole lot of lighthearted banter. – The Korea Herald/Asia News Network
