"The Defender" is taken from the story of a real person, former President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea. In the face of violence and injustice, a lawyer defended the entire dark social system by himself, and the court bluntly said that the law is sick. It seems like hitting a stone with an egg, but as Song Youshuo, the male protagonist based on Roh Moo-hyun in the movie, said, "No matter how hard a rock is, it will die, and no matter how fragile an egg is, it will have life. The stone will eventually turn into sand, and the life nurtured by the egg will one day become Flying over the stone." The logic of this sophistication is exactly the fulcrum of the movie, why the egg can't hit the stone.
The story of the film focuses on Busan, South Korea in the 1980s. Song Youshuo, a lawyer who came from a poor background and only graduated from high school, passed the judicial examination with his own efforts. The original intention was only to repay the debt to the hotel aunt, so he participated in the defense of the aunt's son who was arrested for being accused of a left-wing society, but gold can always shine anywhere. A person who has kindness and justice in his heart is as precious as gold. What he lacks is only an index that illuminates the light. He is the only one in the defense team who sees a child who has been beaten into a trick. He is the only one in the defense team who dares to speak out. When he proposed to terminate the cooperation without giving up the defense, he did not back down. He was still able to argue vigorously, bluntly speaking out against the criticism of the National Security Law of the fundamental government of the Constitution, and condemned the injustice of the protest against the trial. Song Youshuo played by Song Kanghao, a lawyer who only seeks to protect himself in the opening chapter, his journey towards defending injustice for the people and the country in the film is not a change of mentality, but a sense of justice that is hidden and deep in his heart. 's awakening.
This is a rather amusing work. At the beginning of the film, it stated that "it is based on real characters but the content is fictional". This method of breaking through the inherent shackles of the plot based on the truth is very useful for the application in this film. Just right and necessary, aside from the controversial character Roh Moo-hyun, the former president who committed suicide in order to make himself known to the film prototype, who was deeply involved in a bribery scandal, his original true events also lacked the depth required by the film, including the film's final Busan 99. The most touching scene in the film is also fabricated by lawyers defending Song Youshuo, who was arrested for holding a rally for calling democracy Based on the vivid image of the male protagonist Song Youshuo, the touch with his family, the bond with the mother and child in the restaurant, and the tenacious struggle with the gang to persecute democracy, freedom, and the Public Prosecution Law, it also interprets that although the stone is hard, it is lifeless. Although the egg is thin, it has life. , this spirit of fighting against injustice despite being weak is also the most moving part of this film.
Looking at the Korean legal and political films in recent years, there are frequent references to difficult-to-use masterpieces. Almost every film is a shocking film, directly attacking the life of the country's legal shortcomings. From "The Furnace" to "The Gift of Room No. 7", Speaking of "The Defender" this time, the film is not ultimately intended to give the audience an explicit answer, and the ending is not all happy, but each work can give the audience something to think about, and even influence the country to revise the law in the end. The protagonists are all like tired eggs, precarious and weak, and all they face are powerful individuals and even the stubborn disease of the law itself. This stubborn rock that cannot be shaken by the protagonist of the movie alone is doomed to the base color of the tragic work of the movie. , but the movie is like a door, so that the wider public can see this stubborn stone through the movie. When the people are united, the seemingly unshakable stubborn stone becomes incompetent.
After the release of "The Defender" after a lapse of 33 years, the South Korean court re-acquitted the innocent children of the year to set things right. The continuation of the film in reality, and the egg was finally broken. This is a matter of other countries, but it can reveal The emotion given by the movie is dedicated to everyone. There is always a group of people in the world who are as weak as eggs, but have the power to shake the sky and shake the earth. The source of this power is the history of human beings to this day truth - justice. (Reprint must indicate: the original author Mengli Poetry Book)
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