The Korean drama "D.P: Desertion Order", which focuses on the issue of military bullying, is adapted from a Korean webcomic and aired on Netflix on August 27, 2021. The drama has a total of six episodes, and the current Douban score is 9.1 points, which is suitable for watching in one breath.
The protagonist, An Joon-ho, grew up in a single-parent family and depended on his sister and mother. An Junhao worked hard in takeaway delivery before joining the army. As a male of the right age, Ahn Joon-ho's day of enlistment soon arrived. The enlistment ceremony was not very lively, and even the parents of the recruits were invited.
However, their life after actually entering the barracks is not good, the strict physical training is hard, and the combination of the elderly and inferior order of Korean society and the military tradition of bullying new recruits is just like the title of the original manga: Dog Day. After a training session, because of his height of more than 175 centimeters, the protagonist Ahn Joon-ho entered the gendarmerie unit.
The gendarmerie unit may sound relaxed, but when Ahn Joon-ho first joined the company, he was bullied by veteran Hwang Kwang-so, and was fortunately organized by Sergeant Park Fan-joo (played by Kim Sung-joon, who was also Deok Sun's father in 1988) in the deserter pursuit group. Ahn Joon-ho was also included in the deserter pursuit group of the gendarmerie unit.
Park Bum-jae Sergeant
Since then, the job of the recruit An Junhao has been to go on a mission with his teammates and go out of the barracks to the streets and alleys to arrest the deserters. However, in the process of hunting down deserters, An Junhao found that the deserters were actually forced to flee from the military camp...
The beginning of the series, accompanied by a gentle opening song, shows the life of a Korean boy who grows into a teenager and then joins the army. For Korean men, enlistment is undoubtedly a necessary path in the course of life, but what does such a resocialization activity as military service bring to Korean men? It is true that all countries have armies, all countries need a group of young men to become soldiers, and there is not only one country in South Korea that implements conscription, but in South Korea, whether they like it or not, the necessary suffering in this life that all men face is undoubtedly an unnecessary pain brought about by the legacy of the Cold War.
In addition to exploring the structural contradictions of the Korean military service system, the drama also tortures human nature.
First Class Soldier Cao Shifeng
Cao Shifeng was a jiu-jitsu champion before joining the army, liked to draw, and when he was an art teacher, he was called "Fengdi" (Shifeng + Gandhi) by his students because of his kind personality. However, after joining the army, Cao Shifeng was repeatedly bullied by the soldier commander Huang Wenxiu, and gradually, Cao Shifeng's own psychology was also distorted.
When a new group of soldiers came to the barracks, Cao Shifeng, who was already a veteran, also copied the bullying on the new soldiers. At this time, the commander of the army, Huang Wenxiu, was about to retire from the army, and on the eve of his discharge, Huang Wenxiu acted as if he had never bullied a new recruit, letting Cao Shifeng "forget it."
After retiring from the army, Huang Wenxiu, who was indispensable in the army, was ridiculed by the store manager at the convenience store where he worked and did not dare to resist, which shows that it is his power and seniority in the army that gives him the capital to wantonly bully recruits, but once he leaves the military camp, everything starts from scratch, and in society he is just a convenience store clerk who is not happy. At this time, Cao Shifeng, who hated Huang Wenxiu to the bone, had sneaked out of the military camp with a weapon and was preparing to hunt down and kill Huang Wenxiu...
The most powerful scene in the series is the end of the film, Cao Shifeng's escape incident has come to an end, but the bullying in the army has not changed at all, and the veterans watch the news of the Cao Shifeng incident while making fun of the fat soldier who has a good relationship with Cao Shifeng and is nicknamed "Pig Eight Commandments".
Then, the "Eight Commandments of Pigs" went to the cabinet, took out the rifle from the cabinet, and poured all the bullets in front of him...