‘Revelation’ Ryu Jun-yeol, mad acting… “Properly crazy” Reactions explode
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‘Revelation’, released on the 21st, is a work that depicts the story of a pastor who believes that punishing the culprit of a missing person‘s case is a revelation from God and a detective in charge of missing persons cases who suffers from hallucinations of his younger sibling, each pursuing their own beliefs.
In the movie, Seong Min-chan, played by Ryu Jun-yeol, is a character who receives a mission to pioneer, leads a small church, and lives a faithful life, but then suddenly receives a revelation from God to punish the culprit of a missing person’s case, and his life changes overnight.
Having previously portrayed characters who are somewhat crazy in extreme situations through movies such as ‘Money’, ‘Drug War’, and the Netflix series ‘The 8 Show’, Ryu Jun-yeol has In ‘Revelation’, he also showed another passionate and mad performance through ‘Sung Min-chan’.
He expresses the character in a three-dimensional way through his shaking eyes, facial muscles, voice tone, and even hand movements, which changes the character from moment to moment, increasing the tension and immersion of the play. In a situation that changes dramatically, he builds up the character‘s emotional line, amplifies the intensity according to the character’s change, and explodes with madness, giving the viewers a fresh shock.
Immediately after the release of ‘Revelation’, there was a series of favorable reviews for scenes where Ryu Jun-yeol‘s mad acting stood out, such as the car scene with his wife, the prayer scene, the interrogation room scene, the inside of the house scene, and the three-way confrontation scene. There were also responses that Ryu Jun-yeol’s excellent, if not crazy, acting that made him laugh and cry was the best for showing the character of Sung Min-chan.
Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com
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