Doomsday Book (2012/Well Go USA
Blu-ray)
Picture:
B Sound: B Extras: D Film: B+
What lies
at the End of the world? Some disaster,
natural or man made? As the end approaches what really matters? The rules? Human survival? Korea is ground zero for three
impending dooms, a zombie apocalypse, a robot evolution, and an alien order
that's out of this world in Doomsday
Book. What matters is not how it
ends but how people face the end...
Take a
look into 3 bizarre futures. In an ever
growing polluted world, a mix of garbage, beef and recycling foods give rise to
an epidemic to turn humans into zombies as a young man slowly loses grip of his
mind. A young technician is asked to
repair a robot, but it has been claimed it has gained a consciousness and found
Buddha, can he prove it otherwise? And a
young girl goes on-line surfing and buys an eight ball that is descending to
the earth like a gigantic meteor.
This is a
series of short stories that explore the human condition and mind if the world was
to face some sort of dooms day. The first story is about what sort of humanity
would remain if the world turned into zombies, that people would degenerate
into base emotions, needs like lust, hunger, and anger. The second story
explores the fear of robots finding awareness, if robots can find a soul,
spirit, much less god... what does that say about humans? And finally a comical
end of an accidental on-line shopping that brought Armageddon.
For Blu-ray
quality, I found film quality to be clean but still grainy and that is in part
because the 1080p 2.35 X 1 digital High Definition image transfer comes form a
3-perf Super 35mm film source which is the whole way the film was shot and has
character an HD shoot simply would not have.
The DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) Korean 5.1 lossless mix has a strong, rich
soundfield throughout that matches up with the image nicely and delivers fine
sonics. There are no extras.
- Ricky Chiang
