I watched this movie on the Internet yesterday. Many scenes in the drama in Seoul are very familiar, such as the place where many Korean people gather - Jiafeng, and the Seoul Long-distance Bus Terminal that the hero passed by when he escaped (I also took a car there last month, hehe )etc.
The subject matter of the film attracted me too much, perhaps because I am also Korean.
However, the actors and directors are still very good.
Many of the pictures in the film truly reflect the Korean society.
The wife borrowed money to go out to work, and the husband waited for the money remitted from South Korea to pay off the debt.
The better ones may be able to pay off their debts in 1, 2 years, and the better ones may bet on these.
I remember when I was in school, half of the parents of my classmates went to Korea, leaving only the elderly and children. Many children fail because of lack of discipline.
In South Korea, Korean gangsters also exist. I heard from my cousin that one of his friends almost had his nose cut off by a gangster in Yanbian. These are reflected in the film, and the film is even more bloody.
I think the Koreans have a ruthless spirit in their bones, and very few of the very bad Koreans are ruthless and poisonous. Of course, most of them are still very kind, hehe.
There is a Chinese dialogue in the film, scolding the male protagonist as a Korean stick. This is really embarrassing for our Koreans. I heard from my mother that when they were young, they didn't dare to speak on the street, because they would always be ridiculed by the Han people as Goryeo sticks and chased after them. Now I finally feel better, because of various arrogant actions in South Korea, the slogan of the stick seems to have started to rise again, and it has once again affected the Korean compatriots in China. The dislike of Han has been on the rise. At the other end of the border, South Korea also does not like to see the Koreans in China. The most dirty and tiring things are done by the Koreans, and they never regard the Koreans as their compatriots. The Koreans are lingering on such embarrassment.
The film exposes a lot of the bad side of Korean society, and it is also the side that needs to be faced directly. At the same time, I think that if you think about the positive side, there are actually some sunny sides.
For example, the younger generation of Koreans is much more educated than their parents, and they view problems more rationally and pursue their ideals more strongly.
And the fathers who made money are not necessarily idle after returning to China. Many of them have bought jobs, and even raised their children to study abroad or something. Perhaps the only shortcoming is that the family spends too little time together and cannot always get together.
The comments on the film have almost become an narration of the Korean complex, but many scenes in the film deeply shocked me. For us Koreans, this film has been divorced from the meaning of the film itself.
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