What caught my attention is the several systems mentioned in this movie. North Korea's communism is basically a soy sauce, and it appears as the "demon on the other side of the mountain" in the mouth of the military government. It is just that the military government strengthens its own violent rule. A means of legitimacy that doesn't really go into the film.
What is really proposed in the film are three kinds of social ecology. The first is the authoritarian system of the Chun Doo-hwan military government that ruled South Korea by relying on a military coup at that time. This is the simplest, most primitive, and also the lowest cost. The political structure of the country - as long as all citizens love the country, follow closely the leader who is the symbol of the country, obey, be loyal, and sacrifice personal desires, the whole country will be fine, and the country will be prosperous and peaceful - if you lived before the 15th century.
After that, it was the era of the rise of the bourgeoisie and its interests, needs and values, which meant a more complex civilization model, a more detailed division of rights, and a more in-depth game negotiation - all of which the military government could not provide especially the military government that came to power through a coup d'état is even more unable to provide it. The essence of the establishment of the military government is to rely on lethal force to eliminate or intimidate all existing or potential opposition forces at home and abroad, and to play the national theological symbol in propaganda, requiring the citizens to unconditionally blindly obey (called patriotism and loyalty) their own idols . The demand for this is all the more hysterical and paranoid, since the coup-holders know for certain that they have no legitimacy. ——This is why there are junta personnel in the film who extort confessions by torture against innocent civilians, fabricate charges, and blatantly lie. These seemingly absurd and bizarre performances at the level of civilized people are in fact the true colors that all military governments that have existed since primitive civilizations have to maintain their own existence.
But this kind of military government, if it is not abnormal to a certain degree, such as various red and green extremism, cannot prevent the bourgeoisie from developing and rising in its body (in fact, red and green peppers are only temporarily hindered).
Lawyer Song Youshuo is a representative of this rising bourgeoisie. He was born in poverty, self-taught, struggled, and finally achieved fame and fortune. His family lived a happy life, his career was flourishing, and he successfully entered the bourgeois paradise. He was an inspirational example.
And Li Changjun, a top figure in Haidong Construction, is a representative figure who has firmly established himself in this bourgeois paradise. In the last conversation with lawyer Song, he also expressed his hatred for the arbitrary actions of the military government, but at the same time he said that if he wanted to To achieve the accumulation of resources sufficient to change the system, national income must at least triple what it is now. "It is not yet time for our citizens."
From a global perspective, this is almost an unquestioned truth - but another truth is that there are too few beds in the first class of bourgeois paradise, and the journey is too dangerous to accommodate everyone. The innocent and weak people who are being persecuted at this very moment can't wait that long. They need to be lifted, and they need to do it now. This is not the arrogant and ignorant "We want everything" proposed in the French student demonstrations after World War II. , now” slogan, the weak here only want the basic right to survive not to be persecuted for no reason, not to fall prey to the insanity of the hysterical military government. However, when the power is high, the unlucky weak can't afford the cost themselves.
So I chose to come to Song Youshuo, thinking that all this is inevitable, that the weak take the blame, ignore the pain of others at the moment, or stand up to defend the truth and the law? And most importantly, take the bill?
He made a choice, he gave up his steady ascent to heaven, and paid the bill of survival for the weak in front of him.
Thus he became the impeccable moral model and the legal defender of the era.
But beyond this flawless film, we may remember the tragic end of the career of President Roh Moo-hyun, the real-life prototype of Lawyer Song.
There are many reasons for Roh Moo-hyun's tragedy, but in essence, all the good ideals of the left or the right have to pay the bills in order to realize them. Tragedy happens when the living bills cannot be balanced. When he was a lawyer, he could pay the bills for his clients, but when he became president, his ideals would face bills that he could not afford to pay.
How to design a reasonable system to balance these bills? Roh Moo-hyun did not succeed, and the complexity of those issues is far beyond the scope of what this movie can tell.
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