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I'm currently participating in a blogging challenge, so I'm watching a lot of movies as writing material. Yesterday, I watched *Emergency Declaration*. The term "emergency declaration" itself typically refers to a term used in aviation, meaning an urgent or emergency situation. The movie’s title reflects its central storyline—a virus outbreak.
Personally, disaster films have always been my favorite genre, but after watching this one, I found myself feeling fatigued with the genre and even developing a slight aversion to it. One recurring element in disaster movies is the raw display of human selfishness. In the past, these portrayals seemed exaggerated, but now, they don’t feel entirely fictional.
In *Emergency Declaration*, the character Ryu Jin-seok commits evil acts without inherently malicious intentions. His actions represent a senseless act of terrorism, rooted in his inability to manage his emotions. The film suggests that he was pushed to his crime after the death of his overbearing mother left him feeling lost. Yet, being an adult unable to control his emotions is both regressive and deeply self-centered.
There’s a saying, “Everyone has their own story.” We all carry inner pain, and society teaches us to comfort ourselves or to seek support from those around us. The belief that one’s suffering is uniquely unbearable is an immature form of self-absorption. If that mentality leads to crime, it certainly deserves criticism. Humans are emotional beings and, in some ways, more vulnerable than other creatures. We should be able to express our pain and seek help. While struggling isn’t wrong, turning a blind eye to that struggle and self-destructing is an injustice to oneself—and one that no one else can judge or rectify.
The film doesn’t solely shatter faith in humanity through Ryu Jin-seok. It also, in certain scenes, verges on sparking misanthropy—especially with the citizens’ single-minded prejudice. Onboard the plane, people are infected with an unknown virus that could be fatal within 30 minutes. Yet, both foreign nations and domestic authorities deny the plane’s landing rights. It’s understandable that without adequate information on the virus’s threat level, officials might be anxious. But refusing to let the plane land, even as it risks crashing from fuel depletion, was extremely frustrating. The scenes of netizens expressing outrage and staging protests against the passengers' landing stoked a deep sense of disgust.
Fear, rejection, and the baseless hatred that stems from ignorance seem to have intensified recently. In the film, those onboard are citizens of their own country, and the government is responsible for protecting them. Public officials are employed by the people and funded by their taxes to handle issues that citizens are too preoccupied to address. Yet, as in the movie...