"Iron Rain" is another excellent work by director Yang Yushuo after "The Defender" in 2013.
The story is adapted from the web comic "STEEL Rain". Its charm lies in the humor and warmth brought under the tragic theme of the virtual nuclear crisis. It expresses the relationship between North and South Korea about the country, nation and family with delicate pictures and language. .
Before Christmas Eve, North Korea's political faction, Kim Doo-won, the Minister of National Security, and Park Gwang-dong, the chief of the National Security Department, who are loyal to leader No. 1, conspired to start a purge of the military faction headed by the chief of the investigation, Li Tae-han.
After Li Taihan secretly learned the news, he planned to preemptively use deceive Yan Tieyou to launch a military coup.
The blood-washing Kaesong incident made Yan Tieyou rescue the leader of No. 1 and fled to South Korea, and met Guo Zheyu, chief officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of National Security of the Blue House
country and interests
The escalation of the civil unrest in North Korea into a nuclear confrontation with the United States and South Korea has made the situation in Northeast Asia more complicated, and the relationship between China, the United States, Japan, North Korea and South Korea has become more fragile in this uncertain political game.
Between the old and the new in South Korea, the current president wants to accomplish a great feat before he leaves office and agrees to nuclear strike against North Korea, while the president-elect chooses stability as the main priority but has more than enough power, making the South Korea policy not substantively helpful.
South Korea has requested protection from the United States, but the interests of the United States and Japan are greater than those of South Korea and the United States to a certain extent, and they can even give up the interests of South Korea and the United States if necessary.
North Korea fired a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, targeting the Sea of Japan, key to the U.S. test of a North Korean nuclear bomb interception experiment. Therefore, Japan was notified as soon as possible, but the interception failed, and the Japanese Aegis destroyer was instantly overturned and turned into a sea of light. This is what panicked South Korea when North Korea actually attempted to launch a nuclear weapon.
Chinese executives of ethnic Korean nationality at China’s Ministry of State Security secretly mobilized to support North Korea in the name of supporting those who actually hold power. However, he still spoke to South Korea as a compatriot, "We must stop the war".
The arrow is on the line, and the reason for the coup d'etat stated by Lee Taehan at the last moment was that action had to be taken because of the high-level purge of the military that once stood firm in the country. In addition, the military created a weapon to attack South Korea and possessed a nuclear bomb, but the top officials were hesitant.
The director boldly imagined their respective attitudes when facing the issue of South Korea and North Korea, North Korea's irrational numbers, South Korea's requests, China's dealings, the United States' weighing, and Japan's weight. Numerous entanglements of interests have made the road to reunification even more difficult. The fate of North Korea and the fate of South Korea has always been sunk by a big wave and cannot help.
That's why Yan Tieyu cried out bleakly at the end: "The people who split the country suffer not because of the split, but because of those who use the split as a political means."
Even in a foreign country, home is always home
The film uses dialogue and food contrasts to show the characters' emotions and living conditions between North and South Korea in nuanced detail.
The protection of the two sisters after leader No. 1 was injured, the use of panda toys to stop the bleeding, and the blood transfusion of the sister with a slightly proud expression, it can be seen that the purity of the heart of the North Korean people and the lofty spiritual belief make them fearless. At the last moment, Yan Tieyou sacrificed himself in exchange for national security. Between the family and the country, everyone chooses the country, and there is a country to have a home. The hurt of the country is also the pain that every family cannot escape and erase.
"Dad. Have you heard of GD?" Yan Tieyou's daughter asked her father when they were in North Korea, so GD's music in South Korea became the first topic of chat between Yan Tieyou and Guo Zheyu. When Guo Zheyu sang hot songs, Yan Tieyou was at a loss, it turned out that this is the song of the world trend.
Yan Tieyou's sesame-like self-esteem countered "North Korea has been secretly digging extremely secret tunnels for more than 60 years in order to reunify", "Did you grow up eating voles? If you don't eat voles, how can you dig tunnels and unify later I will take care of the railways and subways for you.” Guo Zheyu and Yan Tieyou joked every sentence, the contrast of life and the thought of seeking harmony in difference are joyful and sad.
The different appellations of "hi noodles" and "fine noodles" in the homesick noodle restaurant made the defector's proprietress deeply sad. "If there is a war, where is the safe place on the Korean peninsula", one sentence tells the truth. Although the North and the South live completely different lives due to political factors and the lack of news, the safety of the people and their families between the North and the South is a tie that can never be let go.
"You want to live, let's live together in Banpo-dong and have a glass of soju together." At the end of the mission, Guo Zheyu and Yan Tieyou, who stood on two ideological opposites, were like old friends, mumbling about the future. "Please help me send it to this address if there is a reconnection between North and South".
All the good assumptions are based on the reunification of the motherland and the exchanges between the North and the South. There is no confrontation and weapons, only love and warmth.
But at the end, the director brought this beauty back to reality again, the nuclear bomb was divided in half, exchanged for the leader of No. Gorgeous wrapping paper of reunion is wrapped around the bloody cruel facts, such as the ease and joy of Christmas before the war in the film. Although there is no sugar in the wrapping paper, it also brings peace and hope.
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