Monsters at Yeon Sang-Ho’s movie “Ugly” are all people

Park Jeong-Min plays the son and the younger version of his father in the film “Ugly”.

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Ugly, which is premiered in the International Film Festival in Toronto 2025. years, Director of Yeon Sang-Ho, director most famous for his Action Zombie Live Train to BusanIt’s a continuation Peninsula, and animated prequel Station Seoul. Yeon also created a movie of South Korean superheroes Psychokinezis and co-written by sci-fi tv drama Parasite: Grayin which parasites turn people into monsters. Monsters in your last film, Ugly, are all people.

The film begins with the documentary for interviewing the IEONG-GU (KVON HAE-HIO), a blind marked carver, which explains that even visually impaired can perceive beauty. His son, Dong-Hvan (Park Jeong-Min) grew up with his father, who now considered a national treasure for his life in a traditional craft. Dong-Hwan’s mother disappeared when he was a baby, so his dedicated father was the only parent who ever knew. While making a documentary, the body of Dong-Hvan’s mother, of which more interviews investigating her death was discovered. Yeon based the scenario about the stories she told him when he was younger, things that happened when she was young. Ugly is much more than whdunite.

“I structured the story so that the son of Dong Hvan listened to stories about the older generation and format is that it is five different interviews,” Yeon said. “Until the middle of the movie you’re trying to discover who did it. But we really happen in the depths of human nature and eventually see what kind of choice we make as a generation that I wanted the audience to think about.”

It’s much for consideration. What is beauty? What is ugliness? On which crimes can you justify in your quest to survive or even create. There are not many cute characters Ugly And yet it is the kind of film that stays with you. Yeon started the narrative as a scenario, while made his animated film FakeBut he turned into a graphic novel (2018) before he became a scenario again.

“The inclusion in a graphic novel was probably during production Psychokinezis, ” said Yeon. “When I first made it into a graphic novel, I guess I had a desire to turn it into a visual form one day.”

Occasionally a thriller was dragged by self-financed, which costs about 200 million won or about $ 145,000, a narrow recording schedule for three weeks. Yeon wanted to keep control of the story.

Director of Yeon Sang-Ho

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“To be honest, I don’t really have confident about the idea in the film investors,” Yeon said. “Certain elements in the movie I really like and I really wanted to show you that I decided to decide in that way that I decide so that I decide so that I decide so that I decide to decide that way To be considered that this way I think that the original story of the original story is considered. “.

It’s good to have done it because because Ugly is a distinctive story of a moral vaguite vague side. Although it documents the ugly sides of human nature, the Cinematographic Achievement is a beautiful thing to watch.

“At first, when I started it as a low budget film, I would never have taken a movie action movie,” Yeon said. “So, The Quality Was Unknown and Unexpected. And Thought of Maybe by the Cell Phone, The Scenes of the Past, That I Thought and Could Turn Intent Of An Enactment Drama. Even If The Quality Might Not Match The Standard, I Really Wanted To Turn This Original work into a film and decided to not be afraid of this challenge. Once i started with all these amazing actors and staff that cama together, i Quickly stopped worrying about that aspect. “

Actor veteran kwon hae-hio (Under Queen’s umbrella, Missing, DP) A Visually Effective Father’s game in today’s day, but Park Jeong-Min (Newtopia8 shows, hell) The game and son and father when he was a younger man.

“Initially, I actually just suggested the role of Dong-Hvan, son, Park, and said yes,” Yeon said. “THEN 10 to 20 minutes Later Hey Self of the Father For The Younger Self Of The Father? I Said, No. He Had This Hunch That Maybe He Wanted To Take The Role. As Soon As I Heard That I Thought It Might Be A Good Idea Becouse That Generation Is A Very Important part of the material here. Also, the resemblance of the father and the son is very important. So for him to play a dual role, and thought it would be very effective. “

The rest of the actors includes Shin Hiun-Bio (Cinderella in 2 hours) Like Jung Young-Hee, Im Sung-Jae (The law and the city) as a seemingly beautiful owner of the factory and Han Ji-Hyun (No get, no love) As a reporter whose curiosity drives the film plot.

Spoilers preview: As the story progresses and interviews deliver new information, Dong-Hvan knows more about the mother he never knew. Viewers can’t see his mother’s face in many flashbaci film and it would be a challenge for any filmmaker. How do you create a relative character without showing her face?

“By the very end, the important concept I wanted the audience really understanding was a peculiar mind of Ieong-gu,” Yeon said.

I can’t see her, Yeung-Gun can’t really understand her. Viewers should have known how it felt, what could imagine. So the character only sees from behind or with the hair covered by the face.

“I wanted a character to detect her face completely on the screen,” Yeon said. “But I also didn’t want to look very unnaturally on the screen. He could actually cover his face intentionally so that the audience could actually express himself. So the audience could actually do himself in the Ieong-Guonge.”

Ugly is an intimate story that reflects greater social issues about the need for success in all costs.

“In the 1970s, we were very focused in Korea on rapid development and good result, about achievement and success,” Yeon said. “I think it’s actually going in modern society. I was probably obsessed with something good. I wanted to really keep that aspect of the story.”

As a filmmaker, Yeon is attracted to monsters, zombies or monstrous people.

“I think it’s a distinctive psychology I see in myself and through others,” he said. “It’s something I always think about and I think it’s also very fascinating.”

Ugly debuted to Tif and already sold 157 countries. It will distribute him well in North America in the United States.