The whole plot of "Iron Rain"
It is true that some small details will be missed after watching it again, but in fact, every shot of the director is meaningful, and he explained many key points clearly. After watching it again, you will have a deeper understanding.
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Government faction: President No. 1, Jin Dooyuan (Minister of the Ministry of National Security, estimated to be equivalent to China's garrison command? Or the emperor's nine-door admiral position. The army who mastered the Presidential Security Bureau was assassinated by Iron Rain and crashed under the bridge) , Park Kwangdong (the army in charge of the guard hall, was shot and killed by Tie Yu in South Korea), Jin Dooyuan and Park Kwangdong are the right-hand men of No. 1, and they are also the actual executors of the purge operation mentioned later.
Military faction: Li Taihan, director of the General Investigation Bureau (a key figure in the play, and a representative of the military's hard-line faction against Han), in fact, there are many important high-ranking officials in the military, but they were purged by Park Guangdong before he showed up.
Senior Han: Zheyu
background:
The history of the Korean peninsula being oppressed by Japan, South Korea adopted the strategy of "imitation and surpassing" after the war. If you have Honda, I will have Hyundai, if you have Sony, I will have Samsung. As a result, South Korea's economy is very strong. And North Korea's strategy is to use the lethal weapons (nuclear weapons) that Japan was defeated in World War II, so even if it starves to death, it will develop nuclear weapons, and it turns out that nuclear weapons are really produced. (The above paragraph was analyzed by Zheyu from South Korea when he was lecturing)
After North Korea developed nuclear weapons, the government faction and the military faction have always held two diametrically opposed attitudes. The government only uses nuclear weapons as a bargaining chip to consolidate the regime. Not only that, the conflict between the two sides is very deep, the government has purged many important figures in the military (what Li Taihan said when he was complaining), and the moment of decisive battle is now ushered in, why do you say this, because the government has decided An operation day, on which a large-scale purge is to be carried out, of course against the military. This clue was given by the director through the mouth of a high-ranking Chinese official. In other words, even the Chinese knew about this large-scale purge operation, so the military as a high-ranking official in North Korea could not be unaware, especially as the director of the General Reconnaissance Bureau. This is especially true of Li Taihan, so Li Taihan's strategy is to send Tie Yu to assassinate the right-hand man of the government's No. 1.
plan:
Plans are always not as fast as change, aren't they? For the government and the military, the original plan was disrupted.
Ideal situation for the government to send:
The government has already cleaned up some military figures before this. This time, a large-scale clean-up operation will be held on the action day. The action day is after Park Guangdong goes to attend the ceremony in the Kaesong Industrial Park. However, Jin Douyuan was suddenly assassinated at this time, which made Park Guangdong very nervous all of a sudden. He knew that the military was assassinating them, and the next target would definitely be himself. Instead of going to Kaesong, go to Kaesong on the 1st. So on the same day, when he went to Kaesong on the 1st, Park Guangdong began to act, killing the Minister of People's Armed Forces Cui Yingzhi (similar to the Chinese Minister of Defense), and Han Bingshan, the director of the General Political Bureau. (Why the Minister of Defense and the Director of the Political Bureau who hold the power can be easily killed, because first of all, this is in Pyongyang, and Pyongyang must be the territory of the Ministry of Guards, and another important reason is that they have their plans, and their plans are Today is Park Kwang-dong's death, so they are defenseless)
The ideal situation for the army to send:
The military faction did not wait to be captured and was willing to be purged, but also made a careful plan:
1 Send Tie Yu to assassinate Jin Douyuan (already successful)
2 Tie Yu was sent to assassinate Park Kwang-dong who attended the ceremony today in Kaesong Industrial Park
3 Li Taihan has arranged for a team to sneak into the US military base stationed in South Korea, steal the US military's MLRS rocket launcher, use this vehicle to launch rockets in South Korea, attack the Kaesong Industrial Park, and put the blame on South Korea and the United States.
4. Send armored vehicles to clean up the scene, destroy evidence, and kill people.
5 The situation at this time is that Jin Dooyuan and Park Guangdong are dead, and Han and the United States provoked and attacked North Korea again. North Korea No. 1 can only be obeyed by the military will (Whether No. 1 is willing or not, his right-hand man is gone, and the other senior officials are the military. Hardliners. And the information received on the 1st at this time must be that the US MLRS rockets killed Park Guangdong) and declared war on South Korea
The actual development of the plot:
But the plot didn't run according to the ideals of the government, nor the ideals of the army.
The government faction changed the action strategy and cleared it in advance. Moreover, Park Kwangdong stayed in Pyongyang and did not go to Kaesong, but went to Kaesong on the 1st, which surprised Lee Taehan, because they were also unprepared, and they must have guessed that Park Kwangdong was staying in Pyongyang. In order to clear the operation, the helicopter was immediately mobilized to escape from Pyongyang.
However, at this time, the action plan that had been arranged in advance could not be changed. Tie Yu was already in place and was about to assassinate Park Guangdong who came, but he also found something suspicious, and found that it was not Park Guangdong, but No. 1, At this time, he wanted to call to ask if the plan had changed, but the phone had no signal. But this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the MLRS that has been arranged in advance has launched rockets, and they have launched two rockets in a row. The scene is in a mess, and No. 1 is seriously injured. At this time, the United States had already discovered that the MLRS had been stolen, and sent a patrol plane to look for it. When it was found, it was too late. The first rocket was fired, and it was aimed at North Korea. Of course, the United States knew what this meant, so it immediately ordered to kill the MLRS. .
For the government faction: the good thing is that most of the purge operations have been completed, but the bad thing is that No. 1 is missing, and his life and death are unknown. Although Park Guangdong controls Pyongyang, he does not have the command of the army. The army is watching Pyongyang with the coup of Park Guangdong. Only the safe return of No. 1 can mobilize the army and quell the incident. For Park Guangdong, at this critical moment, he took 3 main measures to tide over the difficulties:
1 Liaise with China, take a tough stance, let China stand in line, and make a statement. Make it clear that you have Pyongyang and nuclear weapons
2 Declaring war on South Korea, he is not the main war faction, the reason for declaring war is to trap the army on the front line to prevent the army from entering Pyongyang
3 Personally venture to South Korea, negotiate, welcome the return of No. 1, and quell the war
For the military faction: things didn't go as planned, but not bad.
1 Park Guangdong launched a purge campaign and assassinated high-ranking government officials, which just happened to take the opportunity to pacify the chaos and march into Pyongyang.
2 North Korea's No. 1's life and death is unknown, and fled to South Korea (Lee Tae-han learned from Tie Yu), let No. 1 die in South Korea, then South Korea has an inseparable relationship, just to declare war on South Korea
3 So, next, even turn to Han to assassinate No. 1
At this point, the overall plot line has basically come out, and the rest is to deal with these complicated things. Now, almost all the questions in the whole film can be easily solved.
1 At the beginning of the film, Li Taihan asked Tie Yu to assassinate Jin Douyuan and Park Guangdong, saying that they were going to betray the country. Seeing this, the first reaction of audiences who often watch movies is that Li Taihan is the villain, because this kind of plot is too common, such as the most typical "life and death sniping".
2 Tie Yu assassinated Jin Douyuan, and the car fell from the bridge. I watched it 3 or 4 times before I understood it. It was the relationship between the camera angle and the ingenious transformation. Looking at the lights of the cars far away, I thought that was the car that fell. . . .
3 Why did Lee Taehan temporarily order the nuclear bomb to be fired from South Korea instead of Japan? Because China knew that Li Taihan was in power at this time, they made friends and reminded him on the phone not to forget the brotherhood. China shared the coordinates of the missile launched by the United States and the target with North Korea. At this time, if North Korea launches a nuclear bomb at South Korea, then the result is that both North and South Korea will perish at the same time, which is not what he said he expected. So he turned to the Sea of Japan, where the Chinese shared U.S. military bombing target was there. After the North Korean nuclear bomb was fired at Japan, the US radar shared the news with the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, so the Japanese Self-Defense Forces launched missiles to intercept them, which is why the three missiles of the United States, Japan, and North Korea detonated in the same sea area.
4 Why did Pu Guangdong go to South Korea to negotiate and was sniped, and after he showed up, he let Tie Yu shoot? It took me a long time to figure it out. It should be that Tie Yu always thought it was Li Taihan who came to negotiate, so when he opened the door to rescue Tie Yu, he kept calling for Comrade Chief Director. At this time, Park Guangdong must have understood everything, and he was holding a gun. Li Taihan's subordinates, knowing that they are hopeless and dignified to die, say it themselves, shoot!
Main Node:
Figure 1: At this point, you can know that Tie Yu is seriously ill (cancer was found in South Korea later)
Figure 2: Introduce the background of the incident through the mouths of senior Chinese officials. The background is that North Korea wants to eliminate dissidents
Picture 3: This scene moved me. The little girl saw off her father with sleepy eyes. I thought that my father would hug his little baby, but unfortunately he didn't. Why? Because his eyes are full of fortitude, the kind of fortitude unique to soldiers, he may be ready to sacrifice.
Figure 4: The director of the General Security Bureau, Park Guangdong, ordered the start of the purge operation (he should have been in Kaesong at this time)
Figure 5: The subordinates arranged by Li Taihan, posing as the US military, entered South Korea through a secret tunnel
Figure 6: trot all the way to report Li Taihan, why trot all the way? Unpredictable because of the unexpected
Figure 7: Tie Yu found that the situation had changed. It was not Park Guangdong who came to Kaesong, so he asked for instructions, but there was no signal.
Figure 8: The U.S. military started searching after finding that the MLRS was lost. At the same time as the target was found, the rocket was launched, which was irreversible. At this time, the U.S. military could only be forced to destroy its own MLRS.
Figure 9: Immediately after the bombing, Li Taihan's capable generals came forward to clean up the mess, killed people, and blamed the US military
Figure 10: While No. 1 was transfused, Tie Yu contacted Li Taihan and stated that the incident was unexpected, revealing that No. 1 was in a hospital in South Korea, which made Li Taihan send a killer to assassinate No. 1, causing an irreversible situation and provoking a war. At this time, Tie Yu was in the dark, and he didn't know that Li Taihan was behind the Kaesong incident.
Figure 11: The first time to sneak into South Korea to assassinate No. 1, or the buddy who cleaned up the mess in the previous Kaesong Industrial Park
Figure 12: North Korea declares war. Note that Pyongyang is in the hands of Park Guangdong at this time, so he declared war. The purpose is to keep the frontline troops from staying at the border, not to attack Pyongyang, and to make time for himself.
Figure 13: Tie Yu told South Korea not to use force easily because North Korea declared war. This declaration of war was a last resort, and it was a way to keep front-line troops from entering Pyongyang.
Figure 14: Tie Yu always thought that it would be Li Taihan coming to Korea for talks. He kept yelling at Comrade Director General when he rescued him. As a result, he opened the car window and was shocked to find that it was Park Guangdong. Park Guangdong heard Tie Yu keep calling the chief director, and knew that this was all planned by Li Taihan behind the scenes, and now Li Taihan's men were standing here with guns, knowing that he was hopeless.
Figure 15: At this time, Zheyu of South Korea has already realized that something is wrong. He already suspects that the coup was not initiated by Park Guangdong, but by the army. He talks to Tie Yu as follows:
Zheyu: Why did you kill Park Guangdong?
Tie Yu: That was the order I received. It was Park Guangdong who initiated the coup and killed him.
Zheyu: That’s why I killed him, but don’t you think it’s strange that a coup was finally launched, and it was almost done, but he tried his best to get here
Tie Yu: What are you trying to say?
Zheyu: Park Guangdong's behavior is inconsistent before and after. Coups have always been initiated by the military.
Figure 16: Zheyu talks with a Chinese official. He has guessed that a senior Chinese official leaked the news of No. 1 to both North Koreans. At the same time, it also led to the disclosure of Park Guangdong’s plan to come to South Korea and was shot and killed.
Figure 17: At this time, the general situation has been set, Park Guangdong is dead, and Li Taihan wants to go back to Pyongyang, take power alone, and start a war
Figure 18: Here is the key point, explaining a major background of this incident, which is said through the mouth of Tie Yu. At this time, Li Taihan had returned to his usual days and had control of the overall situation. Tie Yu called Li Taihan, and Li Taihan explained that Tie Yu returned to North Korea with the chairman's watch. At this point, Tie Yu understood everything. The full text of the conversation between him and Zheyu is as follows:
Zheyu: What happened to the watch, and what happened to the connector
Tie Yu: Comrade Chairman's watch, let me take that watch back to North Korea
Zheyu: That watch is a cryptographic device for launching nuclear missiles
Tie Yu: After the sanctions against the North, the military of the Republic of China began to think so. Although the use of nuclear weapons will bring death, it is better to use them and then die. Therefore, the military has made a final battle plan. The bargaining chip, then use South Korea and the US military stationed in South Korea as a bargaining chip
Zheyu: what do you mean?
Tie Yu: Launching nuclear weapons over Daejeon, South Korea's power communication system will be paralyzed, and the short weapons that South Korea is proud of will become useless. Taking this opportunity, the 250,000 People's Army occupied Seoul and treated the US military stationed in South Korea as The prisoners, then the United States can only come out to negotiate. The Military Department of the Republic believes that this strategy is the only way to protect the motherland. However, Comrade Chairman, after obtaining this strategy, it is not implemented. The Minister also used nuclear weapons to consolidate the regime and did not intend to use them for the Republic
Zheyu: There is a saying that the people who split the country suffer not because of the split, but because those who regard split as a political means suffer more.
Tie Yu: Let my dad take the watch back and explain that the strategic plan is to be implemented
Figure 19 Here, Li Taihan was held hostage by Tie Yu and spoke his heart out, which is also one of the reasons why the director explained the military coup, as follows:
Lee Taehan: I now give an order to the most elite troops of the Korean People's Army. In the past decades, the hostile actions of the US imperialists and reactionary forces against our Republic will be liquidated together today. A few minutes from now, South Korea will The sky over North Korea will be filled with the flames of our Republic's proud nuclear bomb, and the soymilk, the proud weapon of US imperialism in South Korea, will be turned into scrap metal. What a great feat. (As I said this, I was held hostage by Iron Rain)
Tie Yu: Do you know how many people will be killed if you launch a nuclear bomb? How can the People's Army, which is supposed to protect the people, kill the people. Why did you betray Comrade Minister?
Li Taihan: Whoever you say betrays who, there are more than 100 generals of our People's Army who were executed without fault. In the past few decades, our People's Army has created countless opportunities to liberate South Korea. Now, the tadpoles have already released nuclear weapons, but they have been hesitating (in a state of madness)
Tie Yu: I heard a friend from the south tell me that the people who split the country are not harmed by the division itself, but by those who exploit it. The people have suffered enormous pain . I am in Kaesong, Having experienced it firsthand, seeing it with my own eyes (referring to the rocket attack), I can't let all the people fall into that pain
At this point, everything is clear, and then Tie Yu sacrificed his life for national peace and used it as bait to kill Li Taihan, not much to say.
In fact, the whole drama also expresses the personal expectations of many directors, such as looking forward to peace on the peninsula, the north and the south are interconnected, the relatives will no longer be separated, the flesh and blood can be reunited, and the people of the north and the south can also forge a deep friendship, etc. The people who split the country suffer not because of the split, but because those who use the split as a political means make the people suffer more. This is what the director expressed through the mouth of Zheyu. In fact, it is not the case. There are so many wars in history, which is not the political means of those in power, and the people who are hurt are always the people.
As it is said:
The peaks and mountains are like gatherings, the waves are like fury, the mountains and rivers are like Tongguan Road. Looking at the Western Capital, I hesitated. Sad that Qin and Han traveled through the place, all the palaces and houses were made soil. Prosperity, the people suffer; death, the people suffer.
May the world be at peace forever
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