THE FOLLOW
Type: action, drama
Director: Joo Hwan Kim. With Woo Do-hwan, Park Sung-woong, Lee Sang-yi, Huh Joon-ho, Harrison Xu, Eugene Nomura, Eugene Ko, Kim Sae-ron, Davis Noir. On Netflix
A tribute to boxinga discipline relatively little addressed by seriality, and a link with some more recent Korean productions. The hounds is the new series that comes from the Far East and immediately leapt among the most viewed titles on the Netflix platform.
As in Squid Gamethe great Korean success of recent years, also in this case the trigger of an escalation of violence and action is given by an asymmetry of economic relations which leads two young boxers to organize themselves against a fearsome loan shark.
Woo Do-hwan in a scene from the TV series “The Hounds” (photo by Seowoo Jung / Netflix).
In a gloomy Seoul struggling with Covid (passengers wear masks at bus stops), boxers Woo-jin and Geon-woo become friends after a fight; the mother’s debts weigh on one of the twopursued by a dangerous usurer who belongs to the Smile Capital company.
In an attempt to free themselves from this oppression, the two cross the figure of Choi Tae-ho, an elderly and invalid former moneylender now repentant, intent on helping victims in difficulty. Once again, even within a narrative mechanism that often overflows into the improbable, Korean seriality shows that it knows how to deal with the contradictions and inequalities of the contemporary economic system.
For those who love Asian serial action scenes and their excesses.
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