"The Furnace" is a movie based on a real social case. Gong Yoo plays In-ho, an art teacher who is not easy to find a job. On the recommendation of his advisor, he who can sign language goes to the remote village of Wujin (a fictional place) in South Korea to be the art teacher of the first special education school. The real thing is that it happened in Gwangju, South Korea.
Wujin, as its name suggests, is a foggy place. In addition to the remote location, Ren Hao accidentally killed a small animal on the road on the first day he took office. At the same time when Hao hit the small animal, a child (about five or six years old) who looked dazed and seemed to be frightened, walked slowly to the front of the train, his small body, in the thick fog. On the outskirts of Wujin, an oncoming express train...
At the beginning, I didn't know what kind of connection these two incidents had. Then Ren Hao went to this special education school called "Ci Ai Campus". Once he entered the campus, he always felt that there was a strange atmosphere in the school. At that time, Another teacher Park in the school also said to him, "You must have never been in a special education school, right? These children are like this. I have taught them for 10 years, and they still can't open their hearts to me!"
The headmaster and the head of administration are twin brothers, and the female school superintendent is the headmaster's lover. The three of them and Teacher Park are carrying out various physical and sexual violence against these children who cannot hear or speak.
When Ren Hao arrived at the school, he found that the atmosphere of the students was very special, so he began to read the student materials and found that almost all the parents of these students had mild intellectual disabilities, otherwise it was a case of both parents dying. Just as he was about to go home, he heard a shrill cry from upstairs. He followed the sound to the toilet, and was about to find out, but was stopped by the guards who came to patrol, saying that it was a prank by the school children. Children often do this because they can't hear their own voice and want Gong Yoo Don't make a fuss.
The school asked Ren Hao, who came to take a job, to pay 50 million in the form of contributing to the education fund. When Ren Hao handed the money to the principal, he saw the criminal policeman in the principal's room for the first time.
And when he left the principal's room and returned to the teachers' lounge, the first time he saw Teacher Park beating a student in an almost brutal way, he was Min Soo, Min Soo had blood on the corners of his eyes and mouth, and old face hurt. Teacher Park said, "Because the student sneaked out with two girls at night, the teacher was worried."
The picture of Teacher Park hitting the students is really shocking. No matter how disobedient the students are, how can they beat the children like that?
One day after class, Ren Hao saw the child sitting on the edge of the dormitory window. He was afraid that the child would fall, but because the child could not hear, he rushed to the dormitory room to carry the child down. At that time, the little girl struggled hard, as if she was frightened. so…
This little girl pulled Ren Hao to the stairs of the dormitory. There, Ren Hao saw the female school supervisor who was pressing the child's head into the washing machine. He couldn't believe it. After he taught the school supervisor, he fainted. The little girl was taken to the hospital...
The next day, the principal and the administrative director came to be concerned, and repeatedly told Ren Hao that there was something wrong with the school supervisor’s education method. She had already ordered her to reflect on her thoughts and expressed her desire to visit the students. At that time, Ren Hao didn’t know that the school supervisor was the principal’s lover. .
After class that day, In-ho was rushing to see the female students. He commissioned a call from the Association for Human Rights, a human rights organization that looks after female students, asking to meet outside alone. He told Ren Hao the fact that the 12-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by the principal. For the first time, Ren Hao learned that the principal, the administrative director, Mr. Park and the school supervisor were all perpetrators. Moreover, because the school colluded with the police, the criminal police would report the crime. The child was sent back to school, which caused the child to be repaired like that. In a hurry, he hurried to the hospital, and at the same time the school was rushing to the hospital...
In Hao and You Jin made a video of the child abuse interviews. Through the statements of these children, In Hao knew for the first time how these adults hurt these children who had no power to refute them... and also knew that he was there that day. The wailing heard in front of the toilet was not fake. He regretted that he didn't open the door to go in at first.... He had a chance to rescue the child... (Writing here, I suddenly thought of Cha In-pyo's "Today's Forecast")
After returning home, Renhao's elderly mother came with her asthmatic daughter. Because it was the death anniversary of Renhao's dead wife, the mother brought precious orchids and said they would give them to the principal. I heard that the principal likes orchids... Ren Hao asked his mother disapprovingly: Do you know what kind of person he is? He also gave him flowers? The elderly mother flipped over the pancakes for sacrifice, and said without raising her head: "I can buy and sell teaching jobs." How could the person be a good person! However, the 50 million yuan for the school is the money to guarantee the family, so Ren Hao should not think about anything, but only think about his sick daughter.
Renhao, who had struggled several times, stood outside the principal's room, holding the orchid that carried his mother's heart, listening to Mr. Park's sound of beating the students, the students' wailing, and the principal's indifferent words. The principal asked Mr. Park to change the place to deal with the students. Mr. Park opened the door and saw Ren Hao standing at the door holding an orchid. He snorted coldly.
The orchid that Ren Hao was holding was in a sluggish state. At the entrance of the principal's office, the principal was waving to him. He was struggling in his heart. The decorative gravel on the orchid pot in his hand slowly drained down like quicksand. .... I really don't know what decision he will make, and his heart is in a ball... In the end, In-ho smashed the flower pot on Teacher Park's head and rescued Min-soo from him...
During this period, Youzhen has been going back and forth between the Education Bureau and the city government with relevant materials. The city government said that the atrocities that occurred in schools should go to the Education Bureau. It is rare to meet Youzhen who is willing to speak up for the weak. The relevant government units are not ordinary in their ability to play football...
It just so happened that after the human rights unit released the news, a Seoul TV station came to interview. This cruel and weeping fact was broadcast repeatedly on all TV stations, causing people's anger, and the relevant units had to accept the case... However, The criminal police, who have already received a lot of benefits from the principal, took it for granted that he had already helped them to think of countermeasures. Since the principal is an elder of the local church, many religious groups came out to demonstrate for the principal, accusing the students of insulting the principal.
During this period, the principal continued to buy witnesses. When the ending became more and more severe, the principal finally took the money to reconcile with the victim's family. The reconciliation scene was really heart-wrenching. The old grandmother knew that her grandson was sexually assaulted, the boy was sexually assaulted by the male teacher... But the wife was still lying on the bed, the daughter-in-law disappeared without a trace, and a grandson had been run over by the train, no matter what, life still had to go on... The old grandmother is not a person who sees money and ignores her grandson, but she has to bow her head because of the grind of life and reality. Her sad and empty eyes are always in my mind...
The school supervisor was at the door of grandma's house, and loudly satirized them "Even if my grandson suffers from such a thing, he can still accept the money..." There is really helplessness, the despair of the old grandmother and the school supervisor's money can make ghosts run the mill. mentality, showing a clear contrast.
In the end, even their lawyers betrayed them and handed over their key evidence to the other party, that is, the film where the principal started sexually assaulting the little girl when she was 9 years old. Children are telling Nai Lun, under the age of 13 is a public prosecution.
At the end of the story, they are still appealing. However, through Youzhen’s dictation, they learned that the children are all doing well, and for the first time, these children know that they are just like ordinary people and are worthy of respect. exist. It's really sad to see this here. It's such a torment for parents and children to give birth to unhealthy children. How can anyone still seriously harm them.
Also, there is a very good line in the play, he says 우리가싸워야하는이유는세상을바꾸기위하기아니라, 세상을우리를바꾸지못하게핔기 위 is not to change the world, but not to change the world! Let this world change us!!)
It's a really great sentence. The reason why we have to work hard, maybe we don't have to embrace the dream of changing the world, but we must be able to maintain our beliefs, and don't let this distorted world easily change us!
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