The film tells the story of the financial crisis that broke out in South Korea in 1997, and people of different classes and backgrounds made different choices at the time of the countdown to the bankruptcy of the country. The South Korean won depreciated sharply, and U.S. capital drove straight in to control the lifeblood of South Korea.
The story revolves around three people:
One was a female head of the Bank of Korea who advocated telling the people the truth, but was opposed by the deputy director of the Finance Bureau.
One is the small owner of a small factory in Seoul that makes stainless steel bowls. Just accepted the order of the national chain of large department stores. However, the other party did not pay the deposit, but only provided the bill - after how long the promise was made, the cash was provided according to the bill. He wants cash, and the other party only provides bills – if he wants bills, if he doesn't want them, we'll find the next one. He accepted the bill and went into the raw materials.
One is a rookie at a financial company. Seeing the crisis, he took the initiative to resign and decided to make a big profit.
It can be said that this story is the Korean version of "The Big Short". But it's also a little different. Compared with the cold data at the end of "The Big Short", "The Day of the Nation's Bankruptcy" has at least two suicide scenes and one suicide attempt.
With the crisis as promised, the rich second generation of short-selling, with customers, earned a lot of money.
Department stores went bankrupt, the payment was completely lost, and small factory owners wanted to survive the disaster by selling houses, and as a result, house prices fell sharply.
The "professional" beauty team leader, and the "faint" deputy director of the Finance Bureau, on whether to disclose the crisis, and whether to seek the IMF (International Monetary Fund) bailout, all kinds of tearing, and finally left the market.
Under South Korean law, if you fail to pay your debts, you will go to jail (detention?). ）。 What should I do if the debt cannot be repaid under any circumstances? Borrowing wine to pour sorrow does not solve the problem, think of your family, you have mortgaged your family's property. Therefore, I felt that I was sorry for them, it was their baggage, and I wanted to go to a hundred.
South Korea is an Asian country with a deep bureaucratic tradition.
Before the crisis, the bureaucracy covered up the crisis. At the same time, he secretly colluded with big capital to provide them with information, laying the groundwork for Da Fish.
In times of crisis, the bureaucracy and the U.S. financial capital IMF negotiated in the darkroom, and signed an alliance with the United States to humiliate the country, completely disregarding the future of the country and the interests of leeks.
After the crisis, officials turned around as executives of big capital, became one of the IMF's proxies in South Korea, and continued to rule the country.
It can be said that the film portrays the real reaction of society when the financial crisis comes to the audience from three levels, of course, in the end, it is small and medium-sized enterprises and ordinary people who suffer.
The actors of the whole film portray the character very deeply, which is very worth watching!