"Monster of the Han River" used to be the box office champion in Korea and held the record for many years. I used to despise the taste of Koreans because a monster movie achieved such a success in Korea. Today I know that I was wrong, the strong politics behind this film Metaphor is the key to its brilliant success.
Who is the monster?
Judging from the superficial story of "The Monster of the Han River", it is just an ordinary monster movie, not better than the monster movies such as "Jaws" and "Godzilla" many years ago. But at the beginning, during and at the end of the film, Americans briefly appeared in the film, which is the nature of the film that completely changed the role of these short-lived Americans.
Title - Americans Created Monsters. (U.S. military base in South Korea)
In the film - Americans open their minds to South Koreans. (Brainwashing Koreans, creating fear, eliminating dissidents.)
End credits - Americans appear on TV to characterize monster events. (The United States controls Korea.)
It can be said that the United States is the monster in the hearts of Koreans.
Are monsters scary?
The destructive power of monsters is amazing, but they are also fragile. Three brothers and sisters in an ordinary Korean family used inferior tools to destroy the monster. The reason why the monster has been rampant for such a long time is because of the irresponsible judgment of the Americans. Koreans believe in Americans, or Koreans are superstitious. It is more appropriate to worship the Americans and believe what the Americans say for no reason. Second, because of the Koreans themselves, the quality of civil servants is low, friends deceive each other, family members are not united, and the government and the people have conflicted before.
The movie wants to tell Koreans to think independently and unite to fight monsters.
What do monsters want?
A family of five, the eldest and the youngest were killed by the monster, what does the monster want? It is the old man (the head of the family, the sovereign of Korea); and the child (the hope of the family, the future of Korea).
South Korea is following the old path of Japan. Japan’s economic achievements were once comparable to those of the United States. However, with the “Plaza Accord”, Japan’s brilliant economic achievements were eaten up by the United States overnight. Japan has entered a lost 20 years and has been in decline so far. In front of South Korea, Japan is waiting for them, South Korea has got rid of poverty, South Korea has entered the ranks of developed countries, South Korea has created the East Asian economic miracle, and then, waiting for South Korea, it must be the United States to reap the economic achievements, South Korea has become Second Japan. In 1997, the United States had already harvested South Korea once, and that painful experience must be vividly remembered by many Koreans in retrospect.
Monster Apocalypse!
The Japanese have a more sober understanding of the United States than the Koreans. Japan has pro-American factions and pro-China factions. Even the pro-American factions are not willing to be used by the United States. They are the hawks of the United States to provoke China. The bigger purpose is to In order to take back more of its own rights from the United States through the game between China and the United States, and further get rid of the control of the United States. In the past, South Korea was poor and had nothing at home. He was single and had nothing to worry about. Later, when he became rich, he was robbed by an American and legally held the key to a Korean piggy bank. Now that South Korea has property again, it is worried that the property will be robbed, but also hopes to get back the keys, regain sovereignty, and obtain the status and dignity commensurate with its economic strength. And "Monster of the Han River" is such an educational film that vaguely reminds the Korean people.
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