After watching "Iron Rain" in the middle of the night, I wanted to cry without tears. I was shocked by such a classic that was born out of nowhere. Before it was released at the end of last year, it forward-lookingly foresaw that the situation on the peninsula was about to undergo great changes, making it capable of Similar to the power of allegorical form, I am also ashamed that we also have our own great agent legends such as Jin Wulan, etc., but no one dares to shoot. In fact, I have always regarded Korean films as Chinese films. The same Confucian culture, the same ideology, the same autocracy is a thing of the past, and the same ethnic divisions have different weights, but we all seem to have problems with them. , although we have problems they may not have? From "Flying the Taiji Flag", "Life and Death Spy Change", "Common Security Zone", "Silmi Island" to "Defender", "Taxi Driver" and "Yellow Sea", "North" in recent years, all are infinitely close to the confrontation between North and South The real politics of the film, the conscience, courage and artistic level of its artists stand at the pinnacle of Asian cinema, not to mention the masterpieces of critical realism such as "The Furnace", "The Ladies", "The Scarlet Letter" and "The Diving Bell". Included in the top grades of global literary and artistic films. Don't forget, the director's first film is "The Defender", which is his second public release feature film.
The excavation of human nature in this film has reached a new level in Korean films. The attention to detail, the deliberation of military technology and weapons and equipment, the superb performance, the exquisite story, and the grand narrative all give it an epic temperament. It is no longer bound by the traditional tyranny and tyranny in the north, and the presupposition of democracy and freedom in the south. From the agents at the grassroots level, to high-level think tank staff, the No. 1 North, the President of the South, the coup warlords, and the executive generals of the Great Purge, all of them have little ink but are vivid and fleshy. Everyone lives in their own predicament, whether loyal or betrayal, rebellious or obedient, for their own beliefs and principles, which lends credibility to the story and depth to the characters.
The final solution in the film is fascinating. The South exchanged gold x for half of the North's nuclear weapons. In this way, South Korea gained the freedom to let go of its hands and feet under the supervision of the United States, won sufficient guarantee for its own safety, and held its destiny in its own hands. . To ensure mutual destruction, this is the nuclear deterrence theory of the Cold War in the Khrushchev-Eisenhower era. The general stupidity and indifference of human beings make it still valid to this day. Whether it is hypocrisy or cunning to criticize North Korea, in the cruel realpolitik, justice and justice are allowed. Located in the jungle rules, if they didn't have nuclear weapons, they might have already lost their country.
In the geopolitical view of the peninsula in the film, Russia is obviously absent, Japan is insignificant, and China and the United States are rivals at the same level, one is the regent, the other is the emperor, and they have unparalleled influence on the north and the south respectively. Among them, the descriptions of the CIA and the Chinese National Security Bureau's stationed intelligence station in Seoul are quite positive, especially the Korean station chief stationed by our country, who is not angry and arrogant. The reality has enough respect, and a like first. In this year's "North", China's influence on the relationship between South Korea and North Korea has obviously been recognized, and the country is strong, and it is not allowed to shoot indiscriminately.
From Park Chung-hee, Chun Doo-hwan to Roh Tae-woo, Gaddafi, Saddam to Suharto, as well as Thailand's trinity government-king-army system, only the army can trigger a coup. , all rulers understand this. The story of the coup d'état and the confrontation between the North and the South is quite suspenseful. After reading it for the first time, it takes a little thought to realize who is the coup d'etat, who is the purger, who is the influencer, and who is the decision-maker. Strongman politics in the tyrannical shady world is the most terrifying. There are no checks and balances, no constraints, mistakes will never come back, and the process of generating successors is not open, transparent, unpredictable and uncontrollable. Then we can only pray for long live the emperor. Long live.
As a qualified military enthusiast and a former practitioner in the military industry, I believe that the demonstration of nuclear deterrence strategy, electromagnetic pulse attack tactics, and the practice of nuclear missile and anti-missile tactics are all in line with military technology and war theory. The scale is large, the pattern is high, and the professionalism is impressive. The technical and tactical application of street fighting, sniper warfare, indoor warfare, and fixed-point clearing operations in the film, as well as the application of weapon systems, are very professional. The ability to kill unprotected infantrymen is very terrifying. Russia, the United States and China are equipped with similar weapons, which are not restricted by international conventions. In addition, you can see the famous Barrett M82A1 half-inch large-caliber long-range sniper rifle, the Hellfire helicopter launching air-to-surface missiles, and the AGM129A stealth strategic cruise missile (both nuclear and regular) specially designed for B52 to be carried by nuclear weapons. The ones destroyed by the explosion are the land-mobile Musudan medium-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles launched by North Korea. It is worth mentioning that there are also non-US-made KEPD Taurus cruise missiles. The best long-range air-to-ground cruise missile, made in Germany, with performance exceeding the air-launched tomahawk, carried by F15J, the warhead adopts shaped charge and kinetic energy warhead, and is specially used for penetrating the ground to attack the underground command. The South Korean Air Force is equipped with many, dedicated for attacking North Korean underground bunkers.
This is the most profound psychological trauma in the modern history of the Korean nation due to the national amnesia and pain caused by the division of the country. In this film, enough respect was given to Guo Tieyou, a North Korean agent played by Zheng Yusheng (this buddy is the face-changing hero in "Jianyu Jianghu"), his daughter's infatuation with South Korean singing groups, he and South Korea's Blue House security officials on the road and the noodle shop La Jiachang, as well as the earphones he left to his wife and daughter in his last words, are full of human touches, making this film completely beyond the narrow scope of spy war movies and action movies, and truly touch the warmth and brilliance of human nature. I believe that in the Taiwan Strait relations on our side, the Chinese sons and daughters on the special front must have also performed countless deeds that can be sung. Comrade Yu Zecheng has been hiding for so many years, I don't know what happened after that...?
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