"The Melting Pot" is a film about teachers and members of human rights organizations trying to unravel sexual violence in schools. The poor children who are abused in the film are heart-wrenching, the art teachers and human rights activists are indignant about the struggle against the dark forces of the school, and the most terrible thing is that the principal and his accomplices in the film, I believe that those who have seen the film should be impressed by the look in the principal's eyes in the film, and even feel chills. As soon as the film was released, it caused a strong response in Korean society. In fact, this is a film based on real events, and the ending of real events is more tragic, more angry and sad than the movie. Next, let's take a look at the story behind this movie.
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A lawyer learned from a teacher friend that there was sexual violence and other abuse of children in a deaf-mute school in Gwangju. The lawyer decided to investigate the matter with his friends and defend the children's rights. However, at the beginning of his rights defense, the teacher was assassinated because of the strength of the other side, and even other legal workers involved in the matter were persecuted to varying degrees. The lawyer was also forced to leave the firm and lost his job because of this incident. But he did not give up, and still insisted on taking the victimized children on the road to the defense of rights.
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Unfortunately, the lawyer had cancer. But at this time he met a doctor, who, when he learned of the incident, fully supported him and fought with him, and they led to the establishment of the "Renhua School Sexual Violence Countermeasure Committee", and more students and parents participated in the protest. In this process, the dark forces continue to obstruct them, but doctors and lawyers have never given up and have been relentlessly searching for evidence. Finally, they found some direct evidence and launched a protest. However, just like the principal bribing the police in the movie, the real criminals are not punished by the law because of various unspoken rules, and the teachers and staff suspected of sexual violence have reappeared on campus, and the education authorities and administrative authorities even believe that "at the legal level, there is no problem with the school operation." ”。 The result was a great blow to the lawyers and doctors, and the children were desperate, and one of the children, unable to accept the result, dragged one of the criminals to commit suicide.
The lawyer's condition became more serious, but he continued to protest. Sadly, during a protest, the lawyer was knocked down by the government's high-pressure water gun and he did not stand up again. The doctor's path of protest became more isolated, and finally, in order to attract public attention, the doctor committed suicide, leaving behind tens of thousands of words describing the dark violence of the school. The suicide note spread online, finally attracted the attention of society, and then was written into a novel and made into a movie.
After the film aired, the dark side of the school and the human rights of the disabled population finally received attention, promoted the retrial of the case, and led to the revision of a series of laws in South Korea, including the passage of the "Partial Amendment To the Special Law on the Punishment of Sexual Violence Crimes", which is also known as the "Melting Pot Law".
Movies come from the real world, which in turn affects the real world, which is perhaps the greatest value of movies. The ending of the real events is lamentable, but the film still gives people some hope, as the film ends with "we fight all the way, not to change the world, but to prevent the world from changing us." ”