A 2016 South Korean catastrophe movie starring Kim Nam-Gil and written and directed by Park Jung-woo is titled Pandora. On December 7, 2016, the movie had its South Korean premiere.
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Story detail Explanation:
Young man named Jae-hyeok works at the town’s nuclear power plant, which is the only source of electricity and creates the majority of the jobs. Living with his mother, sister-in-law, and nephew Min-jae is Jae-hyeok. Jae-hyeok wishes to leave the town and the plant behind him and work on a fishing vessel to earn money for his family, but is discouraged by everyone he knows. Jae-hyeok lost both his father and brother to radiation in his early years.
A worker at the company named Pyeong-seok tries to convince the president to shut down the facility, but he dismisses the charges and predicts that nothing will happen. The town’s animals inexplicably start to enter the sea one night.
Then, the town is abruptly struck by an earthquake the following day, which causes one of the nuclear reactors to overheat while Jae-hyeok is at work. Water is unable to stop it, and because the reactor is old and the coolant valves were severely damaged, attempts to cool it down fail. While this is going on, the president and his administration discuss enabling the reactor to release radioactive particles into the atmosphere in order to relieve core pressure. The President is adamant about starting with at least those who are closest to the reactor. This backfires when the pressure causes the reactor stack to explode, resulting in a complete nuclear meltdown since the employees were too slow to try to vent steam into the air.
The entire basement collapses as the workers try to evacuate, killing or injuring the majority of the staff. Jae-hyeok is one of the few to escape, and he keeps bringing people to safety up until the point at which radioactive radiation causes him to pass out.
Near the reactor, the KCDC quarantines the citizens of the town. When Yeon-joo, Jae-girlfriend, hyeok’s discovers evidence of the reactor explosion and breaks the news to the town’s residents, the KCDC seals them inside the evacuation centre and instals an internet jammer, rendering their phones useless. After Yeon-joo spreads the word, the inhabitants are able to escape and board the buses again so they may continue the evacuation. At the nearby hospital, things become tense as Jae-condition hyeok’s worsens, the medical staff runs out of supplies, and almost all the nurses abandon the sick and injured as the public authorities flee the area. However, he and several other patients were saved because one nurse chose to stay and care for the injured.
Despite their best efforts, the firefighters cannot get the reactor to cool down, and several of them begin to get radiation poisoning. The only alternative left is to send a team in to seal the cracks of the tank to stop coolant from escaping after it is discovered that spent fuel rods are shedding coolant as a result of the damage it incurred during the earthquake.
Jae-hyeok grudgingly agrees to a suicide mission with his crew, calling a distressed Yeon-joo before boarding a bus to return to the town, after initially being angry with the government for their carelessness. Prior to the nuclear catastrophe and before he arrived at the plant, Jae-hyeok recalls his early years.
Jae-hyeok advises they blow up the tank so that the spent fuel rods can fall into the basement, thereby constructing a new tank, because the crack underneath the coolant tank has been getting bigger during the operation and there isn’t much time left.
However, due to the expanding fractures, there is no time to prepare the bombs before sealing the door; all actions must be completed simultaneously, which means that no one will be able to escape the room alive. Jae-hyeok, the only one of the others who is capable of detonating bombs, enters voluntarily.
Due to his excessive radiation exposure, he is aware that he has neither the chance nor the time to live, so he decides to give his life in order to save the lives of his family and other employees and avert a catastrophe. He lets the staff lock him in the garbage room so they can leave the area. Before blowing up the tank and killing himself, Jae-hyeok broadcasts a final message to his loved ones and Yeon-joo using the helmet-mounted camera.
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Cast:
Kang Jae-hyeok, the naive protagonist who works at the nuclear power plant, is portrayed by Kim Nam-gil.
Kim Young-ae plays Mrs. Seok, the restaurant owner’s mother and the mother of Jae-Hyeok, who also lost her husband and another son in a similar disaster.
Yeon-joo, Jae-fiancée, hyeok’s works as a tour guide at the power plant and is played by Kim Ju-hyeon. She is also an old acquaintance of Jae- hyeok’s.
One of the plant’s heads, Pyeong-seok, played by Jung Jin-young, becomes increasingly concerned about the safety of the facility.
In the role of Jung-hye, played by Moon Jeong-hee, Jae hyeok’s brother’s sister-in-law and a widow.
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