, a tax lawyer who has no education (only a high school degree) and specializes in exploiting legal loopholes, is regarded as a joke in the Busan legal circle, and is shouted like a rat crossing the street. Eun Hye eventually became Song Youshuo, a lawyer who defended human rights.
The actor Song Woo-suk, played by Song Kang-ho, is actually the former President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun.
Because President Roh Moo-hyun was born into a poor commoner, his greatest charm is also in the aspect of integrity and integrity. The main reason for his final suicide was because his relatives were corrupt and bribery, and he was implicated, so he committed suicide and ended the matter.
When Roh Moo-hyun stepped down, South Koreans believed that this was the most honest president ever. As soon as Lee Myung-bak came to power, he rejected all the internal and external policies set by Roh Moo-hyun at that time, which is really speechless.
Song Kanghao's performance in this film is very outstanding, because I have seen him play some minor characters in previous plays, such as a gangster brother, a hairdresser, and a minor role. It was the first time to see him play an intellectual, which was quite strange.
The historical event in the background of this film is the "Gwangju Incident" and some say it is the "Burim Incident". Many Korean films have recorded this incident.
Talk about a few scenes in the film that left a deep impression on me.
One:
The first defense, the director Gives a long shot.
When the prosecutor and the judge were ready, and the lawsuit was actually a cut-off, the male protagonist stood up preemptively and said a lot of words, which shocked me and made me very excited. Completely changed my definition of Song Kangho as a little guy. Of course, this defense is also a very test of acting skills.
Scene 2:
The words Song Kanghao said when he drank too much at the soup restaurant and the class reunion showed his position at that time and the rules he lived by. When he saw on TV that the students of Seoul National University were demonstrating, he said that they had nothing to do and didn't study hard, and his own position was very clear on the surface, don't mess with those people in the government , don't touch the egg to the stone, your own strength can't touch that kind of big power. Everything you do is useless.
I think this paragraph is a very three-dimensional character depiction, very contradictory and tangled. He was originally a mercenary, money-oriented little lawyer. In those turbulent times, as a father and a husband, a small man who was once very destitute should have such a mentality. But he became the incarnation of a justice messenger in the back, which is quite real.
Scene 3:
When it was finally approved, Song Kanghao rushed forward and grabbed the judge's hammer because the testimony of the witness was to be deleted, saying how could you make such a judgment, and then he was dragged out, such a slow motion.
Scene 4:
At the end of the play, at the time of final approval, 99 lawyers were named by his defense lawyers and the judge. At that time, there was a detail that one of the named lawyers was named, and one of them was named from his seat. When I stand up, a close-up of a chair may only take about 2 seconds, but from the process of the person standing up from the chair to driving the chair back, the shot is particularly clean and neat. As a viewer, it makes me feel defended. The firmness and fearlessness of the lawyer moved me very much.
Song Kanghao looked back at the defense lawyers who stood up, from accident to relief to moving, this scene is really touching.
This film is the director's debut work, and it is really amazing.
After the film was released in South Korea in May last year, the original five characters in the film were finally acquitted in February this year.
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