Everyone likes to compare the celestial dynasties, Korean politics and society are also very dark, this is the reality

Octavia 2022-04-22 07:01:52

When I saw some film critics coldly saying that Korean movies are hypocritical, I couldn't help but write a film review. After being loaded with bombs, Yin Yinghua has been compromising and making concessions to terrorists, the government, the media, the public, interest classes, and the system. Survival and fear are intertwined and anxious, but survival always prevails. It is until the end that the cruel reality is recognized: the terrorist attack will only truly end if the hostages are dead. Finally, in despair, he pressed the button. In the movie, it is mentioned that the President is hiding in the Capitol Building, which is less than 3 minutes away from the TV Building Live Broadcasting Building (the name of the place may not be the case, but the distance is similar, and the building next to it is where there are political dignitaries). People have been evacuated almost, and only the whereabouts of anchor Yin are unknown. So he is going to die with the Capitol next to him. I think this is precisely the most shocking place. What is shocking is not only the inability to shoot in the heaven, not the lust and carnival of the imagination, but the reality that really pushes people to a desperate situation. Such an outcome would be thought-provoking.
Just like the two-faced man in "Batman 2 The Dark Knight", he was originally a bright hero in Gotham City. After encountering the death of his beloved, he found that the so-called justice would also be a conspiracy theory that the authoritarian class would not hesitate to sacrifice innocent people. revenge on society. In human society for thousands of years, people have resorted to revenge or perished after being driven to a desperate situation by reality. Why is it not a social reality? Why are the interest classes attacked by the film not faithful to reality?
There are obviously loopholes in technology and logic, but it cannot be said that the film is lewd and imaginative. The terrorists forced the president to come forward to apologize. It is common sense that the president will not come out. In fact, the director did not convey the concept of "the president or the totalitarian class apologizes and admits mistakes and the individual struggles will win" in the film. On the contrary, the whole film keeps telling the audience whether the president is not. It may come out, and college students also know that their struggle will be fruitless in the end, which reflects the behavior of individuals in despair. College students are cornered, the male protagonist is cornered, and the people on the bridge are cornered. And the desperate behavior of individuals because of the institutional environment and political interests is something worth thinking about.
Korean politics itself is very dark, so what about capitalist society? Korea is a traditional Confucian society. The political struggle has never stopped in the past ten years. Since the founding of South Korea in 1948, more than a dozen people have served as presidents successively, and most of them have had a tragic fate. Park Chung-hee was assassinated in 1979, Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo were both sentenced, Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung both bowed their heads because of their sons, and Roh Moo-hyun jumped off a cliff to his death.
Korean movies based on true stories include "The Furnace", "The Defender", and "The Gift of Room 7", all of which are individual tragedies in a specific environment. The world is so cruel. Where there is sunshine, there are also shadows. People who draw shadows do not all rely on their imaginations.

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The Terror Live quotes

  • Park Shin-Woo: I'm sorry.

    Yeong-hwa Yoon: You were going to kill them anyway! Son of a... You're sorry? How can you say that?

    Park Shin-Woo: I started this just to hear those two words. I said to come quick because it'll collapse. I agreed to the rescue! But where is he? It's out of my hands now.

  • Yeong-hwa Yoon: Why me?

    Park Shin-Woo: Still, I thought you would be different. You're all the same. That's why you're dying. Then, I'll stand there and end things myself.

    Yeong-hwa Yoon: Please, Mr. Park... Please, please don't kill me. Please, sir! Please! I beg you! Please! Let me live! Let me out, please.

    Park Shin-Woo: Keep being like that. Groveling under damn bastards. Live like that, then die.