"Don't end with anger and tears, gaze at the truth until the end, it is important to always remember the truth, which is the solid foundation for saving hope." - "The Melting Pot"
The Korean movie "The Melting Pot" ranked 24th in the Douban Movie Top250, and more than 240,000 people have seen it, with a rating of 9.2 points.
A film that angered the South Korean people and changed the laws of the South Korean state, based on heinous real events.
In the movie, Jiang Renhao, a down-and-out painter played by Kong You, was introduced by an acquaintance to a school for the deaf and dumb in Wujin as an art teacher.
Kiritsu, a small town filled with fog all year round.
The truth is like being wrapped in layers of thick fog, and when it is revealed layer by layer, in addition to shock, there is anger. The thick fog dispersed the bright sunshine that should have been willowy and bright, but unexpectedly came to an even darker end. Because there has never been sunlight.
The faculty in the school called "Loving Kindness" are also not half charitable.
New teachers must pay the "school public welfare fund" to sell their positions; male teachers in the office violently beat students; the housekeeper teacher cruelly pressed the female classmate's head into the washing machine; the principal bribed the police money to bribe the officials to protect them...
What is even more infuriating is that these teaching staff, who are human figures and teach and educate people, have repeatedly sexually assaulted 4 disabled children.
The children of the silent world who cannot speak of despair and fear, the evil ghosts in the chaotic world who are full of compassion and conscience.
Jiang Renhao, who discovered the truth of this cruel incident, and Xu Rouzhen, a local human rights organization, together exposed the evil people under the appearance of love.
In 2009, the male protagonist Kong You, who was still in service, read the novel "The Melting Pot" adapted by the female writer Kong Yongzhi into this incident, and was deeply shocked, retired a year later and proposed to make this book into a movie.
After the release of the movie "The Melting Pot" in 2011, millions of South Korean netizens jointly demanded a new investigation and trial of the matter.
On the 37th day of the film's release, the South Korean Parliament overwhelmingly passed the "Sexual Assault Prevention Amendment" with 207 votes and 1 abstention, also known as the "Melting Pot Act".
Sexual assault of a disabled woman and a child under the age of 13 is punishable by life imprisonment at the maximum; Perpetrators who work in social welfare institutions or special education institutions can be punished more severely, and the new law came into effect in July 2012.
This is a movie that makes the South Korean people angry and changes the laws of the South Korean country.
Hell is empty, and the devil is on earth. We all know that there are too many ugly human beings in the world, and we can choose to ignore them, and we can tell ourselves that we are out of the mud without staining, and we can clear the waters without being demonized. But the child is ignorant of the world, at least let the child know the beauty of the world.