I have to say that Korean films have always handled the issues of the dark side of society well, and there are many excellent works, whether it is "Memories of Murder", "Influenza" or "The Furnace" which will be released in Taiwan on November 11, they are all well-known. A realistic film with few negative reviews. When discussing the dark side of society, government agencies have the responsibility. Because it is the government's responsibility to maintain social order, it is the government's dereliction of duty to allow these dark sides of society to exist all the time. Therefore, from works such as "Influenza" and "The Furnace", you can feel a power to criticize government agencies. In fact, it is not only these realistic movies that are critical. It is a comedy, but the actor in the play teaches other inmates how to exploit legal loopholes to commute their sentences or commute their acquittals, which is undoubtedly a slap in the face of South Korean judicial decisions and criticize government agencies in a more playful way.
"Origin: Seoul Station" is a sister work of "Dead Train", but the style is quite different. "Dead Train" is a commercial masterpiece without losing its sensibility. It does not focus on criticizing the government, while "Origin: Seoul" "Station" is a stern scolding of the government with great fanfare, showing the cruel and bloody social situation; the protagonists in the play are all people at the lower end of the society, a girl with a homeless family and a homeless person, the former is unable to return home. The latter is homeless.
From the perspective of the homeless, what appears to be a disappointment in government agencies is actually a longing for home. The homeless people in the play are the weakest of the society. The director has set up several bridges to express the reality that the homeless people are scorned and driven away no matter where they go. Even when the epidemic broke out, it was directly blamed on the homeless riots! The most heinous and critical scene is when the homeless in the play shouted that they had done their part for this country, that they should not be on the streets and criticized the government for not being able to give the people a home. 's kill. Living corpses eat living people according to their instincts without consciousness, but the government is consciously killing its own people. In comparison, which sin is heavier, it is self-evident!
From the point of view of the girl from the rocky family, it appears to be a yearning for home, but it is actually a disappointment to the government agency. She has a home but can't go back, because as soon as she gets home, she will be escorted by her creditors and go to sea to pay her debts by prostitution, so she has to escape from her home to hide her debts and rent a house in another place, but she has no skills. She is a scumbag, so she is forced to make friends online from time to time to collect the rent. Obviously, the role of this young girl has pointed out the social problem of forcing a good prostitute to help the girl, but she would rather ask for help from the scumbag next to her, but she has never had one. The idea of asking for help from a government agency is a clear insinuation that the government is not as good as a scumbag!
Compared with the director's other work, "Dead Train", "Origin: Seoul Station" is indeed a lot less entertaining, but its power to criticize the government is very strong. I think one day, this power will be Spread like a dead virus, infecting others.
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