The Anchor

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The Anchor

2022

앵커

Directed by Jeong Ji-yeon

My death should be reported through your voice.

A mysterious informant calls a broadcast news anchor to request that the anchor report on the informant’s inevitable death.

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𝐒𝐜𝐢-𝐅𝐢 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐢🍥
Review by 𝐒𝐜𝐢-𝐅𝐢 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐢🍥 ★★½ 6

I know that I'll never be alone
You will never let me go
You are my anchor
Hold my hand while I'm sinking in the sand
No one else could understand
You are my anchor

Always gonna think of my favourite LifeHouse track whenever I see anything called Anchor. Plus it totally works with the film's themes!
A well known news anchor decides to personally investigate the scene of a disturbing phone call, only to have the case pull a Jenga on her mental state.
Watched for the lovely Chun Woo-hee, who effortlessly portrayed the stressed, but cool veteran presenter Jung Se-ra, surviving in an industry that thrives on the next young pretty thing. The story surprisingly became more of…

Keith 📽🎬🍿
Review by Keith 📽🎬🍿 ★★★

The Anchor starts off preeeeetty rough, but after the initial 10-20 minutes I found the next hour quite interesting. I thought the unraveling of the mystery was shot and revealed well and kept me engaged. The ending, however, was a bit jumbled, and introduced new concepts and ideas, instead of focusing on the one main plotline.

There are some good ideas here, but the execution is lacking.

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joshrowley
Review by joshrowley ★★

Engaging; long; slow-burning; twisty; unrealistic; unscary.

Geoffrey Broomer
Review by Geoffrey Broomer ★★★ 1

A news anchor (Chun Woo-hee, The Wailing) receives a call at the station from a distraught woman claiming to be in danger, though initially dismissing it as a prank, our title character eventually follows up for a gruesome crime scene. Post-Traumatic Stress from the discovery leads to ghosts, unsympathetic male colleagues, younger female colleagues gunning for her spot behind the desk, a shady therapist (Shin Ha-kyun, Thirst), and family secrets better left buried. The Anchor has a lot to unpack, but the horror elements seem superficial, the occasional ghost distracting from an otherwise tight psychological thriller.

Director Jung Ji-Yeon has created a thoughtful character study of a woman in a rather sexist, and ageist industry. The colour pallet is lush,…

snowfre
Review by snowfre ★★★

The Anchor lays the groundwork for a somber psychological thriller; unfortunately, the twists that eventually unfold are too familiar for anyone that has visited the genre before.

Asia the Invincible
Review by Asia the Invincible ★½ 3

They should have lifted the anchor to venture into more interesting waters, alas they never left the harbour. ;D

k
Review by k ★★★

motherhood IS prison....

maria
Review by maria ★½ 4

The deer from Beyond Evil followed Shin Ha-kyun all the way to this movie.

Has been done a gazillion times before and in a superior way, after the 45 minute mark it just becomes a predictable and convoluted mess. The psychobabble stuff is also paper thin and very unsubtle. Chun Woo-hee tries her best but even she can't anchor the film.

Amaia❄️
Review by Amaia❄️ ★★★ 4

La película está bastante bien pero una vez que la has acabado ves que muy original no es. Aún así es muy entretenida y te tiene intrigada.

Randa
Review by Randa ★★★★ Liked

Sebuah thriller psikologis yang menarik, dengan cerita yang dijalin dengan baik yang diperkaya dengan plot-twist yang menarik dan elemen misteri dan horor, serta komentar sosial yang mendasari betapa pedas nya posisi pekerja wanita di dunia Korea modern.
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Penampilan menawan dari ketiga pemeran utama (terutama dari Chun Woo Hee), yang menggambarkan karakternya dengan sempurna.


Final Score : 80% 🍎

Kyle Williams
Review by Kyle Williams ★★★½ Liked 4

(Korean film festival screening including Q and A with director Jeong Ji-Yeon)

The Anchor blew me away by shattering my expectations and then hitting me with some stellar reveals. 

Apparently this film is predictable, but I didn’t predict it, and because of that it made my jaw drop again and again in its expertly paced final act. 

The scares are there, and so are the performances - and I think this makes for a brilliant psychological horror experience. 

After the film, hearing the director talk about the subtext and meaning of the Anchor, I gained a much greater appreciation for the film - as I discovered the film acts as a metaphor for her own experience in the male dominated Korean film Industry. Jeong Ji-Yeon is a great director who I think will go far. She said she made this film because it was a story that ‘needed to he told’, and I think that passion makes her brilliant.