Derailed (2016)

	Also Known As: Deragliato, Doo namja
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Lee Sung-tae
	Actors: Choi Min-ho, Kim Jae-young, Jung Da-eun, Lee You-jin, Baek Su-min, Ma Dong-seok
	Country: ROK
	Genre: Melodrama
	Conditions of visioning: 23.04.2017, Teatro Nuovo, FEFF2017, Korean with English subtitle
Synopsis: Jin-Il (Choi) and Ga-Young (Jung) are teen runaways. They stay with other runaway kids. Sometimes, they resort to stealing to survive. They are now out of money, but scheme to get some money. They steal the car of a violent small gangster Sung-hoon (Kim). They lure Hyung-Suk (Ma) to a motel. But he takes Ga-Young as a hostage to work in his club.
Review: The introduction sets a very dramatic situation of teenies abandoned by their parents and more or less homeless. Their promiscuity in the streets, in the sleeping locations, contrasts with their typical teenie behaviour of playing in arcade games of eating junk food. This may appear as the generation of easy money and fun living acceptable lives without working. Along the movie I see that no relationship is secure or loyal, apart the one relation to one's girlfriend. This is a very pessimistic view of life forcing this Korean youth to be individualist and not trust in anybody. Even not in Hyung-Suk who actually tries to help these kids as he can, but not communicating this as such. In this sense, the relationship of Hyung-Suk and Jin-Il is almost paternal. with typical difficulties of communication and power and dependence relation.  The acting is good and not exaggerated apart from the obsession of Jin-Il to gather money to free Ga-Young, without seeing any other option. Min-ho (seen shortly in Canola) and Da-eun are K-pop stars of respectively SHINee and 2EYES. So even for KPOP fans, there is something to watch.
Rating: 4 /10