"The Ministers of Namsan" is a new work that director Yu Min-ho and Lee Byung-hyun have worked together again after "The Insider", which is obviously much better than "The Insider", and even from the perspective of photography, the aesthetics of color composition, not even like Korean films, are very rare.
The film tells the historical case of the South Korean president being killed by the minister of intelligence, but it is rare to see the Korean-style sensationalism of fighting chicken blood, the whole film is quite restrained, and it is rendered in a very comfortable atmosphere to tell the story of the upper echelons, especially the picture photography is very beautiful, making the whole story form a unique look, tense but very moving.
As we all know, there are many films with such themes in South Korea, from "The Defender", "Horror Live" to "The King", "Accomplices", and even a large number of Korean films with disaster themes, political satire has been common, but the texture of the work has not been felt as a unique aesthetic element of the film, and the emergence of "The Ministers of Namsan" this time undoubtedly fills the shortcomings in this regard.
(Text/Starry Night)