The Story Variation and Character Prototype Re-creation of "The Wizard of Oz"
In the film, the name of the little girl Dorothy is the key to unlocking the archetypes of the story and the characters.
If you compare "The Wizard of Oz", you will find that these two stories are nothing more than changing the narrative perspective. They are both stories of a group of people entering the fantasy space to defeat the magician and resolve the crisis and then go home. During this trip, everyone has gained themselves. The precious things that were already there, or the self-recovery, Dorothy did not choose to stay in the kingdom of Oz full of magic and comfort, but chose to reunite with the impoverished dummy.
"Victory" is just a retelling of "The Wizard of Oz" from the perspective of lion, tin man, and scarecrow, but the film breaks the three appearance features and character tags to hide behind the special effects and the tense story. The film removes the lion's mane. , Tin Man’s axe was handed over to Park Kyung-soo (dirty braided axe). He found courage, while the tin man was bubs (robots) who found his heart. Dorothy became younger and possessed real magic. The identity of the scarecrow gave With Captain Zhang, she has gained leadership and mind, and Kim Hao-tae (Song Joong-ki), who has never abandoned Dorothy, is a collection of all the characters even the dog named Toto. In the film, the dog disappeared, and he became a poor but kind-hearted existence like an aunt and an uncle, and became a parent.
The first thirty minutes of "Victory" are somewhat clichéd, but as the plot unfolds, you will find that the director has mastered Hollywood's ideology and value output methods. "Victory" is a dazzling and tender future science fiction drama on the surface, but among them The ideology of Korea is an expression of historical retelling of the legitimacy of the regime in the eras of Park Jeong-hee and Park Geun-hye, both the old and new authoritarian eras in South Korea. As for the expression of the legitimization of the American dominance of the world, the director points out that Koreans live in the first world. The embarrassment and depression between the third world and the third world have also whitewashed this kind of legalization. But when the banner of victory for this film is lifted, what is hidden is the blood and tears of the people of East Asia.
In "Victory", the ceo is the lying witch Ozgar riding a broomstick, and Oz's certification of hero abilities is the company's substitute. The natural symbol of uts is the United States disguised as a company. This company represents eternal fatherhood.
The scene where the black foxes cut their throats corresponds to the beheading of South Korean hostage Kim Sun-il in Iraq in 2004. At the beginning of the film, everyone planned to hand over the "weapons of mass destruction" and the future to the United States in exchange for money. As a result, the money was not received and it was almost destroyed. After that, the film really began to introduce the character's history, and the character's history is the key to the film's ideology, "the truth is hidden, the falsehood remains".
As long as a certain expression involves a certain relationship of social control (rights, exploitation) and acts in an inherent and non-transparent way, we are right in the world of ideology: the so-called logic of legalization of control really requires To be effective, it must be kept hidden. ——Zizek
What are the protagonists of Victory?
Although I slaughtered civilians and sold drugs during the Vietnam War, I was still a gentle and good father
The most successful character in the film is naturally the bubs who appeared as a robot. The dream of skin grafting and bone reconstruction can be described as an accurate metaphor for the Korean people. He described the protagonist Kim Tae-ho as: He fought air combat and sneaked into the contaminated area to participate in the assassination of robots. And his evaluation of Kim Tae-ho is "He is not terrible, but poor, cheeky and useless, he is really fateful." This is a self-explanatory (or justification) of South Korea.
" Good Father" crew Kim Ho-tae (Song Joong-ki), Park Kyung-soo (a man with dirty braids and axe) and Park Jeong-hee in the traditional authoritarian era
Jin Haotai: Born as a child soldier, he served in the Space Guard at a very young age.
The Republic of Korea was founded in 48 years under the support of the United States, and formally sent troops to Vietnam in 1964. Isn't it a child soldier? And it was Park Jeong-hee who took the initiative to visit the United States to request troops. This battle brought down an economically booming South Korea.
During the Vietnam War, South Korea sent 300,000 soldiers to Vietnam, killing more than 8,000 Vietnamese civilians. Vietnam still dare not forget it. "Poverty in exchange for blood" is the South Koreans' own evaluation of this war, but it is undeniable that the rise of South Korea's economy was the foundation of this war. The Korean war crimes were not admitted to Vietnamese until Moon Jae-in visited Vietnam in 2018.
The war rushed past in the film, replaced by Song Zhongji's tender and hurried care for war orphans.
But he really, as bubs said, "Isn't he scary?" Is there anything more terrifying than the "father" who slaughtered the people of other countries and portrayed himself as a tenderhearted "father"?
South Korea slaughtered Vietnamese women, children, and adulterous women, resulting in 30,000 Korean-Vietnamese children, and 800 Vietnamese women who were raped are still alive, but Zhao Shengxi has portrayed Koreans as loving fathers. (If Moon Jae-in was not the president, maybe South Korea would not admit the crime yet)
Park Kyung-soo Dirty Braid is the former drug lord, modern methamphetamine originated in Japan, and developed in Korea. In the 70s of Park Jong-hee's era, he even put the Made in korea mark on methamphetamine and spread the drug making technology to countries all over the world. Methamphetamine originated from Japan-South Korea, the Golden Triangle, the United States-Taiwan, Hong Kong (in the 1980s)-the Philippines. (The history of nearly 30 years of drug-free country from the 1950s to the 1970s in Mainland China was broken at this time), if you are interested, you can watch the Korean movie "The King of Drugs".
When watching the film, you may be wondering why the clues to saving your daughter do not seem to be strong, because the existence of the daughter role and saving the daughter itself are not the achievement of the story and drama goal, but the completion of the protagonist’s self-reconciliation of past crimes and cheap Self-deceptive salvation.
The broken spear, the "independent woman" who saved Bubs, Captain Zhang and the era of Park Geun-hye
Bubs broke into a dangerous scene with his cold weapon spear, which is a metaphor for the frustration of the deployment of the THAAD missile system. (I'm not a fan of the military, but what I want to explain here is that THAAD is not only a defense, but surveillance and offensive can also be done.)
The scene where Captain Jang stepped out of the spacecraft and rescued the bubs in the film was due to the fact that Park Geun-hye did not exist in the rescue of the Seyue. In the film, it is the male hero who makes important decisions and masters the rudder of the Victory spacecraft at the critical moment. The male protagonist Kim Tae-ho in the film "How do you always occupy my place" has pointed out that this so-called independent woman is just a political correctness. That’s all for the furnishings.
In Captain Zhang's nightmare, the "weapon of mass destruction" exploded on the earth, and Captain Zhang was awakened. If you carefully observe the fall of Captain Zhang’s nightmare nuclear bomb, you can see that it is Libya. Gaddafi’s results need not be repeated with the current situation of the Libyan people. If the United States comes to save the people, the price will be unbearable.
Patriarchy has not collapsed but turned into an intangible vision from Dorothy to Hwarang Tomato tree and tomato metaphor
The witch died but UTS did not collapse. The U.S. dollar in 2092 was still the world currency. The protagonist still liked to wear Nike. Their so-called inferior races were still engaged in lowly jobs. All signs showed that the American patriarchy and order dominating the world still exist. . South Korea is caught between the first world and the third world. The existence and division of labor of this film just proved that this order still exists.
The girl "Dorothy" began to be described as a weapon of mass destruction or a nuclear bomb, and a symbol of the future of South Korea's next generation. The difference is that in the Korean movie "Iron Rain 2" in the Trump era, the South Korean president used the mediation of China, Japan, the United States and North Korea to maintain peace in East Asia, and reached a settlement with North Korea to share nuclear weapons. In the first cool film of Korea’s founding in the beginning of 2021, South Korea actually lost this subjectivity, directly negating the authenticity of the nuclear bomb, and killed Dorothy/Hwarang’s real father through the hands of the father ( North Korea's metaphor), and gained superpowers-manipulating high-tech nano-robots, and this is the ability to revive civilization.
The tree is a metaphor of civilization. It appears in many places in the film. Unlike the towering trees of American civilization, (the image of the chip in the film is also the image of the tree—the semiconductor industry) South Korea’s civilization is a tomato tree. The herb tomato is short and fragile and cannot shelter from wind and rain, but it bears sweet and sour fruits in exchange for US dollars. This fruitful fruit is the film. It's just that we have to distinguish the green and poisonous from the fruit, and leave the mature.
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