BlackKnight is the latest Netflix adaptation of a Korean webtoon, a dystopian action-thriller that's also a snapshot of the Korean class war struggles and stands an allegory for anxiety about reunification with the North: REVIEW
is the latest Netflix adaptation of a Korean webtoon that leans into Science Fiction dystopias. This time it's the future where the Korean Peninsula has been devastated by toxic air pollution. The people have been forced to live indoors and have their food and oxygen delivered to their homes. This makes the Black Knights, the delivery people who show up with their goods… our heroes.
changes the original comic to make it an action-packed six-hour movie with a beginning, middle, and end with all the increasingly common tropes Korean action movies are now known for. The expert fight choreography, inventive car chases, and carnage, lots and lots of carnage, including prolonging the Big Bad's survival for as long as possible so he can have a final fight with the hero.
At first, the story feels like another Class War parable with the refugees the impoverished have-not ignored and abused by the elite while the normal population is kept isolated, safe, and docile by social control and propaganda. The story becomes more interesting when you read it as an allegory about North and South Korean reunification. That hasn't happened in real life, but it is an ongoing concern in the prosperous South.
episode. And in the Class War, the hero is your delivery person who brings you what you need to live.
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