Happiness
2021
Original language: Korean
- drama
- mystery
- sci-fi & fantasy
The story
A new type of deadly virus spread throughout the city, and the apartment where has different social classes of people is sealed off. With the fear of the virus, and the conflicts of the different classes, the residents have to spend and survive in the new habitation.
What it’s like
Cold blue-grey light filters through cramped stairwells, fluorescent corridors and tight apartment rooms, with handheld camera work that stays close to faces during tense standoffs. Sound leans on muffled banging against steel doors, distant sirens, and sparse, unsettling strings that drop out for long stretches of quiet. The mood is claustrophobic dread that slowly warms into something tender, closer to sun-starved unease than cosy escape. Violence is frequent and grisly: infected attacks, bodies, blood and gore that land with real force, so it is not suited to anyone seeking gentleness. Pacing is uneven, with bursts of panic followed by long, anxious waiting. The emotional core is a reluctant pairing forced together under a fake marriage arrangement, whose guardedness gradually thaws, while class resentment and fear fracture the building's residents. It suits a late-night binge for viewers who enjoy survival tension, social pressure and a slow-burn romance threaded through the horror.
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