In Busan in 1978, Dong-soo (Jang Dong-gun) is a child of a poor family, Jun-seok (Yoo Wu-sung) is the son of the boss of a gangland group, the hard-working San Tae and the especially good-natured Rong Ha. San Tae often takes the first place in the school, while Dong Soo and Jun Suk are troublemakers everywhere, but the four of them are good friends. Dong-soo and Jun-seok, who later entered middle school, were expelled from the school for taking the lead for San-tae.
In Seoul in 1984, Shan Tai and Rong He, who entered the university, went everywhere to find the whereabouts of two friends, but these two friends have now joined the underworld. One is in jail, the other is in rehab.
In the autumn of 1990, Shantai, who was studying in the United States, returned to China for a vacation, lamenting the old friendship. Due to their mutual revenge in the gang fight, Dong-soo and Jun-suk have become real enemies, how should they face their former friends?
Four Friends
1978 · Friends
What is a friend, can accompany you all the way. Whether you are from a funeral home (Dongzhu), the eldest son of a big brother in the underworld (Junshuo), or a child of ordinary people (Shantai, Ronghe), in the eyes of children, there is never a division of class or wealth, and It's about being able to play together. They watch movies that are not suitable for children, play in the sea with rubber bands, steal things in small shops to cover each other, and fight for their friends. Although some things go against the law and morals, who doesn't make mistakes when they are young? As long as you are nice to me, you are my friend.
But growing up, the world of childhood began to expand, and some things of adult society poured in. At first, there will be a sense of identity. Those from the funeral home and the underworld will feel inferior in front of others, but some people dare to laugh at them and have to use their fists to get it back. In our opinion, such an approach is not strong inside, but in his opinion, it is the only way to solve the problem. In the transition to the adult world, there is no power and money, but violence. In the natural non-dual law of using violence to control violence, gain the respect and surrender of peers on the surface. Junshuo, who was born in the underworld, once said to the bullied Shantai, only if you beat the bully or even maimed him, so that he will tremble when he sees you, and he will really dare not bully you. Perhaps this is Junshuo's philosophy of life that he learned with blood and tears in the long-term struggle. We can't judge whether his concept is correct or not based on our three views, but whether this concept is suitable for Junshuo from the underworld. In the midst of wolves, lambs can only be reduced to snacks in the mouth of the wolves. You can only have a trace of vitality if you are more cruel than the wolves.
These Jun-seok and Dong-soo have understood. But Junshuo still retains a trace of human beauty, knows how to behave in the world, and knows how to treat friends. Dong-soo, with a humble status, will inevitably be blinded when he thinks of getting ahead. What is loyalty, loyalty is earned by money. It is precisely because of the difference in cognition that their life trajectories begin to drift apart. A good student, an ordinary person and two gangsters, they may be able to remain friends without the definition of identity given by society. However, living in a complex society requires accepting all of this.
Goddess Chastity
1984·Youth
At the school sorority meeting at that time, there was a girl band called rainbow. They attract a lot of people, whether they are good students or gangsters. Under the stimulation of youth hormones, it is normal to have sex with the opposite sex. Punks have a way of making friends, they are reckless and lawless, but they are free and attractive. Maybe it's due to loyalty, maybe it's because I can respond to every call at school, or maybe it's because I was deeply fascinated by their eyes when they punched. No one is useless, no matter the gangster or the good guy, there is always something that attracts you. Of course, good students also have their own ways of making friends. They are polite, they can pack themselves up early in order to meet you, and they can play the guitar for you. But no matter how hard the student works, the goddess may have known the gangster early in class, during the exam, and on the way from school.
I think of running under the sunset that day, it was my lost youth.
But Junshuo is still talking about loyalty. As for what is righteousness? It is the goddess that his best friend Shan Tai likes, and you can give it to him without blinking an eye. Even though Junshuo knew that his so-called best friend came to see him because of the goddess, even if he felt uncomfortable, even Dongzhu, who was also a gangster, liked the goddess, he still did it. Maybe in his opinion that's what a friend should do. Even though we are no longer so close, that love still cannot change. For the sake of his best friend, he could be expelled from the school for venting his anger on his friend. Sometimes, gangster Junshuo thinks, I am ruined anyway, my friend must be fine.
A few years later, their friends came back from school vacation. One (Junshuo) took drugs all day, beat and scolded his wife, and the other (Dongsoo) went to jail to successfully enter the underworld. And the friend who was reading could do nothing but sigh in vain. Time is like that, and it can easily change many people.
Dong Soo (Jang Dong Gun) is handsome!
1990. When Cruel Story
came of age, everything became cruel. Junshuo, a member of the underworld, after quitting drugs, lived a life of fighting and killing all day. In exchange for fists, Mercedes-Benz cars, luxury houses and a group of die-hard younger brothers. When a person has a place in your heart, it is very difficult to change. He is your parent, you have to be filial; he is your teacher, you have to be respectful, quiet and polite; he is your enemy, you have to draw your sword. A younger brother can only be a younger brother, no matter if he takes a knife for you or helps you do a big business, it is a younger brother after all. Whatever the boss tells you, you have to listen, that's not a friend. Because in that social form, as long as you give money, the so-called loyalty is the same thing. Dong-soo went to the gang that opposed Jun-suk just for the money. The director never thought of arranging for them the kind of episodes in the Hong Kong movie "Young and Dangerous" where brothers fight the world together, and the hostile relationship can better explain what a friend is.
Junshuo consciously avoided conflict with Dongzhu. But the adult world is cruel and escaping is unavoidable. A misunderstanding that can be said to be reconciled can no longer be resolved in the chaos of knives and blood. When his friend (San Tae) was about to leave Korea for the United States, Junshuo single-handedly found Dong-soo and offered to let him leave Korea and go to Hawaii for a few days. This is the best way to compromise underworld, of course, this requires a person to throw away everything and reputation. Dong-soo retorted, why don't you leave. The matter has collapsed, and it can only be solved by fire and fire again. When Junshuo was about to leave, he reminded Dongzhu that this was the day when his friend Shantae left Korea, and whether he was going to see him off. It was these words that reminded Dong-soo of their friendship. Unable to bear, Dongzhu let Junshuo leave and pushed himself to the brink of death.
In the heavy rain, Dong-soo, who wanted to see him off temporarily, was stabbed more than 30 times by the killer sent by Jun-seok. Dong-soo's death was just the victim of a feud between gangsters. There is no gang that will continue to fight for a long time, and finding a scapegoat is the reason for the reconciliation between the two parties. The killer sent by Junshuo just stabbed the crippled, but Dong-soo's subordinates, who wanted to take the lead, signaled the killer to stab to death. The world of gangsters has never been kind and kind, but more of those realities and evils.
The rain and blood melted together and died on the street. This should be the best destination for gangsters, and it can be regarded as the best comment for friends.
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