The title of the film "International Market" makes people feel that it is a gangster movie or a commercial film before watching it. After watching it, we will all know that the international market is the name of the market where the protagonist lives and does business. The subsistence market mainly deals in goods imported from the Port of Busan. It can be seen from the film that the protagonist's family is operating imported food, drinks and daily necessities.
The time line has been from "Resist America and Aid Korea" to 1983. Please answer before 1988. From the perspective of a family, it shows the historical grand picture of Koreans from the turbulent life during the war to the persistence of survival, the life is getting better and the country is getting richer and stronger.
After China drove out the Japanese invaders in 1945, Japan was completely lost in the international arena and was left to be slaughtered by the (American) people. Japanese troops withdraw from the Korean peninsula. At that time, North Korea and South Korea were unified countries, except that the north was an industrial area planned by Japan, and the south was an agricultural area. After the end of World War II, the national leader Kim Il became the unification of the Korean peninsula. After gaining the support of the Soviet Union's big brother, he began to launch a reunification war to the south. The war was fought from north to south, all the way to the vicinity of Busan. With the intervention of the United States and the United Nations, Kim Il-sung's army was driven back to the north of the 38th parallel. From then on, the Korean peninsula was officially divided into two countries, North Korea and South Korea, under the proposition of the United States. From the movie, we can also see that the two sides hate each other and look down on each other. In the Korean region, it is said that people from the north will be discriminated against.
Movie Timeline. The first timeline, in 1950, under the powerful offensive of the Chinese army, South Korea retreated steadily. The United States helped people on the Korean Peninsula to evacuate from the war zone. During this period, the protagonist's family is separated from his sister and father. Finally came to the south, defected to the aunt, Ms. Leopard, and lived a life without war. Life at this time was more difficult, and the whole of Korea was.
In 1953, the protagonist took his sister Pearl to elementary school. Witness the help of the US military to South Korea.
In 1964, the protagonist wanted to realize his childhood dream of becoming a captain, so he wanted to study for exams, but because he had no money and a heavy burden at home, the protagonist chose to go to West Germany to dig coal with friends, and met someone he liked here. When the coal mining contract expires, the protagonist returns to Korea and brings back a certain amount of cash.
In 1973, the protagonist's family was still short of money. Although the protagonist was admitted to college, he chose to participate in the Vietnam War to make money. He injured his left leg during this period but still brought back a certain amount of cash to save his wife from a fight with Shan Yu's mother, the owner of the next door. During the period of the Han River Miracle in the 1960s, the economy developed rapidly.
In 1983, I finally reunited with my sister. This part is the climax of the whole movie, the most touching part. The reason why South Korea has the time, energy and money to find relatives is because in 1983 South Korea's per capita GDP had reached US$2,000, which was comparable to China's level in 2004.
The time line is a relatively obvious story development context, and the following is not obvious.
There are a total of 4 singing appearances in the film, all of which promote the development of the story. The first time I sang was during the interview process that the protagonist and his friend wanted to go to West Germany to dig coal. At that time, because people were immersed in strong patriotic feelings, they had an idea and sang the national anthem, so that they were admitted by exception.
The second singing was the song "I don't know why" that the hero sang to the heroine in the dormitory. The heroine was very moved and then knocked the hero down. As a result, the third time to sing was born. At the wedding, the heroine, who was not good at singing, sang this untimely song to the male lead. Later, she changed a confession song of her own, which officially marked the inseparability of the two people's love for life.
The last time was a song sung by my granddaughter. There is no Chinese translation for this song. According to the English subtitles, it is to the effect that during the retreat of Xingnangang, my sister and I were separated in the snowstorm. I looked for her for many years. This is what the protagonist pursues his whole life. Maybe this song was written by the hero himself. But in the end, he still couldn't find his father. He may live a life 100 times worse in the north than in the south, or he may have become the butterfly again, flying from the beginning and flying away at the end.
At the end of the film, the family gathered together and laughed and laughed in the living room; the male protagonist cried bitterly in his room alone, crying that he had been working hard all his life, constantly paying for his family. This is the epitome of the era, when most people struggled hard and brought prosperity to the country at the same time. South Korea moved from poverty to development and finally entered the ranks of developed countries in 2005. Economic development brings cultural development. Korean culture has influenced the world 20 years ago. From my savage girlfriend to nobody to parasites, a country's culture is recognized and accepted by the world, which is the symbol of a country's true prosperity.
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