Deciding to watch some Korean movie in Netflix as it is free with Jio Postpaid plans, Google suggested Psychokinesis under best Korean movies in Netflix with 80% rated Fresh in rottentomatoes.com and 5.9 in IMDb.
Psychokinesis starts by showing Roo-mi as a successful fried chicken restaurant owner along with her mother as her father had abandonded them when she was 2 years old. Her restaurant along with other shops and eateries in the neighbourhood has been planned to be demolished by a construction company in order to build a large shopping center. All the owners join together and refuse to be evicted so the construction company hires local goons. One night, when the thugs forcibly evicts Roo-mi, her mother gets wounded in the head by the thugs. In the hospital, Roo-mi's mother dies and at the same time, a meteor hits the earth. The meteor substance gets mixed in a mountain spring from which Seok, Roo-mi's father drinks gaining telekinetic powers.
Roo-mi calls her father to inform him about her's mother death and Seok visits her and gets to know about the fight between shop owners and the construction company. How he uses his powers to safe his daughter and the other shop owners from the construction company is the rest of the story.
What appealed to me in this movie is the exhibition of the super powers. In other superhero movies like Avengers, where the super powers are used to save the world from annihilation, here the superhero with his limited knowledge of his super power uses to save his daughter and thereby the other shop owners. Even with the super power, the director has portrayed the hero as an average human being who still abides by the law utlimately. In the scene, where the construction owner confronts Seok and mocks his powers and his daughter, one may expect the hero to do something to hurt the construction owner. However, he does not but only crushes her car completely just to let her know what he's capable of.
With so much super hero movies in abundance like DC characters, Marvel characters, Glass, Hancock, etc, Psychokinesis is refreshingly new and different where the spotlight is less on superpowers and more on humanity.
Psychokinesis [2018]
Language: Korean
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Writer: Yeon Sang-ho
Cast: Ryu Seung-ryong as Shin Seok-heon
Shim Eun-kyung as Shin Roo-mi
Park Jung-min as Kim Jung-hyun
Available on: Netflix
