Save the Green Planet! story
Save the Green Planet! (Korean title: 지구를 지켜라!, Jigureul Jikyeora!) is a South Korean science fiction comedy film written and directed by Jang Joon-hwan, released on 4 April 2003. Synopsis: A deranged man kidnaps another man, convinced that the latter is a space alien.
30 total · 17 major · 13 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien living secretly among us | major | A revelation of the film is that the corporate executive Kang was actually the leader of an alien race from the Andromeda galaxy, and himself one of their kind. |
| aliens meddling in history | major | A revelation of the story is that aliens from Andromeda had created humans in their own image and had been guiding the development of humanity since prehistoric times. |
| attack from outer space by a genocidal enemy | major | Byeong-gu believed that aliens from Andromeda were about to attack Earth. And in the end, those very aliens annihilated the titular "green planet" (i.e. Earth), presumably extinguishing humanity in the act. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | major | Byeong-gu and his unwaveringly loyal, circus-performer girlfriend Su-ni. |
| coping with being tortured | major | Kang was imprisoned in a workshop basement and subjected to numerous gruesome tortures. |
| delusional point of view | major | The film is shown from the point of view of a deranged man, named Byeong-gu, who has kidnapped another man whom he is convinced is a space alien. |
| descent into madness | major | The story explores how Byeong-gu slowly went mad from all the violence that surrounded him. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | The film's main character Byeong-gu ultimately failed in his effort to stop a race of humanoid aliens from the Andromeda galaxy from attacking Earth. |
| human vs. captivity | major | Kang was abducted, imprisoned in a basement workshop and tortured to the brink of death. |
| law enforcement | major | Detective Choo and Detective Kim were investigating the abduction of the corporate executive Kang. |