As director Lee Kyung-seop, who made a movie on the popular webtoon "Women's Middle School A", no adult in the movie "Women's Middle School A" is normal. The father of the main character, Kim Hwan-hee, is violent with an alcoholic, and his mother is also a bystander. The school teacher (Lee Jong Hyuk) also interprets conflicts and problems among children arbitrarily and forces silence for the whole rather than truth.
In this cowardly, irresponsible adult, children do Earth 2 in their own way: the problem is that the Earth 2 method is consistent with that of adults. The low self-esteem and sensitive future rarely gets to know friends, but has a talent for novel writing. The film proceeds as the future reads his novel directly and presents the events he experiences together.
a fairy tale
The children who hurt someone and hurt someone else are eventually people, especially those who have not yet gone out to the world, so adults and interest and affection are more necessary than anyone else. If the webtoon comforted the hearts of those who cried secretly due to bullying, school violence, and family problems, the movie had to take over the authenticity.
As the director says, it seems difficult to doubt the authenticity of the film, but it is doubtful whether it has been released well in a cinematic way. The novel narration of the future, the space in the game where the future was the only game to play, is solved by due diligence, and the film creates an ambiguous boundary between reality and fantasy, but it is full of familiar grammar and images that have been seen in many movies. It means that they come clichéd.
The speed of the event is slower than necessary, and the breathing of the actors seems to be decreasing. In the process of adapting Webtoon into a movie, it is revealed what to concentrate on except for what, but it feels less fresh in expressing this film. It is also a pity that good actors who showed their own personality and possibility in previous works such as Kim Hwan-hee of <The Wailing> and Kim Jun-myeon in <Glory Day> are also using it.
The director's authenticity and delicate attitude should be recognized, but implementing it as a movie is a separate problem.
One line review: A good webtoon is not necessarily a guarantee check for a good movie, but a law rating: (2.5/5)
The familiar images, the appropriation, the adaptation intentions were good, but...