Tieyou was ordered to assassinate a high-ranking North Korean official who was interested in a coup in the Kaesong Industrial Park. As a result, the coup was ahead of schedule, and the male protagonist in the massacre entered South Korea with the seriously injured No. 1. The North Korean nuclear situation was tense, and the high-ranking North Korean officials who came to negotiate were assassinated. Iron Friends also found out from Shangfeng's order that he was the one who caused the chaos. In order to prevent the North-South nuclear war, Tieyou was willing to return to North Korea as a bait to locate and bomb South Korea, and the crisis was finally resolved.
"Iron Rain" is a political fantasy film with a serious core. The relationship between South Korea and North Korea is not completely antagonistic, and the desire for peaceful reunification is the criterion for the division of positions in this drama. "New nationalism" is the value of this play, and the concept of "brother" has also been further enlarged, which is reflected in the relationship between the two male protagonists and the way they get along. I have to say that in recent years, Korean films have become more and more international, and the portrayal of China, the United States and Japan in "Iron Rain" is very representative. Especially China, I think it is very objective and positive. "Those who have money are overseas Chinese, and those who have no money are foreigners." This sentence, said by a Chinese Korean intelligence officer, is even a bit self-deprecating.
In Korea, the reality is that basically only the older generation of directors are still very enthusiastic about the North-South issue, and the younger generation has paid less attention to politics, and they are used to entertaining everything. Although the element of north-south relations has developed very maturely, they are still more willing to express it in a playful, romantic and tender way, or just borrow a shell of a north-south dispute like "Baekdu Mountain", It's still an undercover movie after all. Therefore, like "Iron Rain", it is very valuable to add serious thinking about politics to the framework of commercial films, but it is also relatively rare.
In addition, the film also has many refreshing visual performance and bridge innovations at the director level. For example, the Kaesong Industrial Park massacre, self-cutting trachea to prolong life (this is really the first time I have seen it in a non-medical film and television), the buffer blasting of hospital corpses... all of them are amazing.
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