How dare Koreans shoot?
Not only is it not shy about pedophilia, sexual assault, power and money transactions, and collusion between officials and businessmen.....
He also dared to remake the prototype movie of the former president, exposing the ugliness and darkness of the former South Korean military government in a heroic way.
This is the high-scoring movie that we bring to you today:
The Advocate
The Advocate is a drama film written and directed by Yang Woo-seok and starring Song Kang-ho, Kim Young-ae, Oh Dae-so and Guo Daoyuan, released in South Korea on December 28, 2013.
After its release, it topped the box office for 29 consecutive days, with more than 11.37 million viewers, making it the first 10 million-person film in 2014 and the 9th local film in South Korean history to exceed 10 million viewers.
In Douban, the score of this movie is also as high as 9.2 points, which is the third film in the Douban list (Korean Film), after "The Melting Pot" and "Suyuan".
The story begins in Busan in 1978.
The male protagonist, Song Youshuo, is a poor boy with only a high school education, but he has had the qualities of persistence and persistence since then.
With his own efforts, he moved bricks while reading books, passed the judicial examination, and became a lawyer.
Because he had been poor for too long, Song Youshuo, after becoming a lawyer, began his career as a lawyer who ran to make money.
In those years, the real estate boom was so great that he distributed business cards everywhere and started a real estate grade business, and soon made a lot of money.
But this behavior is despised by peers.
At a party, several lawyers said at the dinner table that he had lowered the bar industry, and song Youshuo just listened to him.
He did not refute it, but handed out his business card after their discussion: "I am the unobtrusive real estate lawyer you just discussed, but thanks to everyone's blessing, my business is not bad." ”
Then dash away.
After making money, Song Youshuo bought the house he built when he moved bricks, and at the same time took his wife and children to a hot restaurant that was of great significance to him.
The hot restaurant was a place he frequented when he moved bricks.
The hostess was very helpful and kind, and when she learned that he was a student who was earning tuition, she often agreed to his credit, which was settled in January.
When it came to the day of checkout, the male protagonist was overstretched.
The money in his pocket was only enough to redeem the study materials he had lost, and there was no longer enough money to pay for food.
After thinking about it for a moment, Song Youshuo still chose to study.
When the lady boss went to work, he immediately slipped away, but before going out, he looked at the son of the lady boss.
The child's eyes were pure and curious, which made him even more embarrassed and guilty.
Now, the accomplished Song Youshuo stands in this hot restaurant, facing the boss lady and her grown son, and still has the embarrassment of the escape order.
When the hostess and her son learned of his intentions, they immediately expressed their indifference, and they were honored to be able to help a future talent.
Song Youshuo gained long-term warmth in this hot restaurant.
Fast forward to 1981, the political situation in South Korea was turbulent, the military government came to power with thunderous power, and the whole of South Korea fell into a high-pressure terror rule.
And Song Youshuo didn't care.
After the heat of the real estate grade passed, he started a tax lawsuit and still had a smooth life.
At a party with former classmates at a hot restaurant, the news on television that the students in power had arrested and imprisoned the demonstrators.
His fellow journalists could not help but denounce the abuse of the law by those in power, but in Song Youshuo's view, the students' practices were tantamount to hitting a pebble and adding chaos to their families and society.
The meal broke up.
When sending Song Youshuo away, the boss lady's son seriously refuted him: "I don't think it is pointless to hit the stone with a pebble, no matter how hard the stone is, it is a dead thing, and no matter how crisp the egg is, it may hatch into a fresh life." ”
Soon, a vigorous "Pulin Incident" broke out in South Korea.
The government imprisoned a large number of students and prepared to send them to prison on charges of reading banned books and threatening national security.
The son of the lady boss is also in it.
Song Youshuo could refuse the invitation of his predecessors to ask him to defend the students, but he could no longer remain indifferent in the face of the weeping expression of the boss lady.
When he saw the children in prison, Song Youshuo was shocked.
The once spirited young man was no longer in human form, repeating in his mouth, "I have recognized my mistake... All I can say has been said... I'll never do that again..."
Obviously, he was tortured to confess + mentally brainwashed.
It was after this meeting that Song Youshuo really embarked on the path of defending these students.
Before the trial he found that the difficulties were far more than he had imagined.
Prosecutors, judges, and defense lawyers other than him all huddled together, ready to convict the students in a "cutscene" manner.
There were so many people in the audience, only Song Youshuo wanted to defend the students' innocence.
Thankfully, they were helped by a military doctor who was involved in torture.
The medic was a religious, and after participating in such a brutal coercion, he finally decided to testify in court.
On the day of the final trial, Song Youshuo's journalist friend did his best to find reporters from many newspapers at home and abroad; the seniors in the legal profession also invited many well-known people in society to testify and supervise the judges' trials.
Although the military doctor's testimony was very powerful, the prosecution had already colluded with the military doctor's army to forcibly invalidate the military doctor's forced confession.
Song Youshuo was out of anger.
In the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, the rights of the people are enshrined in Article II, but judges, prosecutors' offices, and police, who are the enforcers of public power, have trampled on the past and defended themselves in groups;
And he himself, in this defense, also experienced the disaster of the closure of the firm, the threat of his wife and children, and the suspension of the business, but he still could not win this disparity in the lawsuit.
Fast forward to 1987.
This year, south Korea's famous June Movement broke out, and student representatives were tortured to death by the police, setting off a new wave of resistance.
Among these people, Song Youshuo was a pioneer and was quickly arrested by the police.
After his arrest, the prosecutor asked him: "You are a lawyer yourself, why do you know the law and break the law?" ”
Song Youshuo said the most classic line of the film: "Because I am a lawyer, I need to be at the forefront when citizens cannot exercise their rights." ”
In the courtroom where Song Youshuo was tried, the defense team submitted a long list of defenses to the judge.
Of the 142 lawyers in Busan, 99 came to the scene to voluntarily defend Song Youshuo.
Some of them sat in the defense seat, and some sat in the auditorium.
As the judges named one by one, they stood up one by one, like an indestructible mountain of rule of law.
And Song Youshuo, who was sitting in the defendant's seat, finally showed a relieved and relieved smile.....
It can be said that the shock of this film is indescribable.
Among them, there is the thickness of history, the bravery of small people who struggle desperately, and the heroism of romance.
It is worth mentioning that in reality, the Pulin incident also ended with the student being sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment.
But more than a decade later, at the strong demand of the masses, the case was retried, and the defendant youth were also acquitted.
Justice may be late, but it is never absent.
This is a movie that will be greatly shocked after watching it, and its meaning is far more than a movie.
The power of the individual is always the egg to the high wall, even if the strength of the individual is insignificant, but you can choose to always stand on the side of the egg.
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