Wonderful Days

Wonderful Days ( Hangul: 원더풀 데이즈, wondeopul deijeu ) is a South Korean science fiction animated film from 2003, the original title of the also known as Sky Blue film is not Korean, but are Wonderful Days using the Korean alphabet font Hangeul onomatopoeic again. .

Action

The film is set in the year 2142nd Pollution by humans has led to a variety of environmental disasters and decimated mankind. An elite group of scientists and other intellectuals has foreclosed a high-tech town called Ecoban built on an island, which is actually a giant organic factory to clean the air. In order to exist, Ecoban requires a lot of energy, which it relates solely from this cleaning process.

The privileged residents of Ecoban are not the only inhabitants of the island. A group of refugees has also settled on the island. They live in a ghetto, as they will be denied entry to Ecoban because of their contamination. Residents Ecobans treat these Marrianer as second-class citizens whose only raison d'être is to toil for them. This is the beginning of the film clearly where a number Marrianer only reason dies because the rescue of a technical installation of Ecobaner is made on her life. Therefore, the Ecobaner can perform as feudal lords, because they are much better equipped than the Marrianer.

In such conditions, it is no wonder that made ​​broad under Marrianern resentment and a small resistance group has formed that is ready to violent resistance. But that is not the only threat to Ecoban. The much greater danger to itself Ecoban is Ecoban Natural processes and the metabolism of the organic city Ecoban have the air cleaned so far, that this success is threatening the existence of the city, since so exhausted the energy source of the city.

The leaders Ecobans have become accustomed over the decades of their Feudalherrentum and their original order, to make the earth habitable again, long forgotten. In order to secure their sinecures, plan the entire area to contaminate the Ecoban. The fact that all Marrianer be killed, they consciously accept. In such an initial state, the situation can only escalate.

Genesis

With production costs of 30 million U.S. dollars Wonderful Days is the most expensive animated film, which was previously produced in South Korea. In the production of the film traditional 2D animation, 3D computer animation and traditional stop-motion were used. Even when sound a considerable effort has been so have been used by real motorcycles in all possible situations for the soundtrack of the animated motorcycles with considerable effort specially made audio recordings.

Publication

The film premiered on April 26, 2003 its premiere at the Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema in Canada. In the following months he has been shown at several other film festivals, including at the International Film Festival of Cannes 2003 and at the Sundance Film Festival 2004. On 17 July 2003 Wonderful Days came to the Korean cinema.

In Germany the film on DVD is available in one edition, on the Wonderful Days Wonderful as well as in Korean calls ( 아름다운 이야기 ) is to be read. The DVD includes not only the theatrical version, an extended to seven minutes Director's Cut and a DVD with interviews with the creators, but additionally contains a complete soundtrack.

Reception

On the Gerardmer Film Festival 2004, the film won the Grand Prix in the category animation. The top prize went to another Korean film, A Tale of Two Sisters by Kim Ji- woon. On the Fantasporto 2005 Wonderful Days was nominated for Best Picture, but could not prevail against Vincenzo Natali's Nothing to.

Kevin Thomas wrote in the Los Angeles Times on December 31, 2004: "Like many other Asian sci-fi anime also: an amazingly presented, populated by one-dimensional characters future world caught in a hackneyed plot. " ( "Like a lot of other Asian sci-fi anime: a stunningly imagined world of the future populated with one- dimensional characters caught up in a trite plot " ).

The film magazine Video Week wrote about Wonderful Days, " the first feature-length big-budget cartoon of the peninsula meet Matrix ' and ' Mad Max 2 ' Romeo and Juliet ' when in sometimes enchantingly beautiful images a relatively simple end-time story to their predictable course takes. For Eastern and anime fans undoubtedly a tip. "