Natural City
by Byung-chun Min
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Actor: Doo-hong Jung, Eun-pyo Jeong, Jae-un Lee, Ji-tae Yu, Rin SeoDirector: Byung-chun Min
Brand: Genius
Cinematographer: Byung-chun Min
Writer: Byung-chun Min
Editor: Min-ho Kyung
Producer: Lee Dong Jun
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Korean (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Tartan Video
Movie Reviews of Natural City
Movie Review: No, it is not just a "Korean Bladerunner"
Summary: 5 Stars
I have to admit something... I really liked it. It gave that soft sense that Logan's Run did when I first caught it on the big screen. OK, I should be getting a more Casshern, Bladerunner, sort of feeling - there is that too. Research tells me that Natural City was a a box-office sensation - but only in Korea. Not sure why... neither did Casshern - but that is more a reflection of us in the US than the filmmaking in Japan and in Korea. The movie plays at or around AD 2080 where genetic and mechanical engineering has reached an apex - man is playing god in a very systematic way. In this space and time it is simple to alter human DNA, manufacture clones and fuse humans with "neuro-chips." An explanation is in order...a neuro-chipped human clone known as a `Combiner' has become basic part of everyday life. There are effectively two stories: a romance and one more akin to the Matrix and all its epistemological musings - yes, it is actually deep. Nonetheless, it does tend to fall into the tried and tested Tae Guk Gi drawn out battle scenes and the usual Korean flair for the over dramatic. Byung-chun Min he does a pretty good job - not up to Oldboy but it is good fun. Natural City comes at the whole mecha combined with human phenom from a different angle. Natural City Science gives personalities and a soul to machines. Moreover, it turns the table on conventionality - the story behind Natural City is more weighty a prophecy - as soon as humans opt to become more like equipment and even choose to "love" machines it can become somewhat disconcerting. It is no Matrix but it is 2 hours well spent.
Miguel Llora
Summary of Natural City
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