In recent years, Korean films have won many awards at international film festivals, and such realistic films have also made us aware of the darkness hidden behind society.
Today we will take stock of the realistic movies that South Korea has made over the years that reflect human nature, and reveal the unknown darkness.
Part 1: "Mom Doesn't Cry"
This is a film that reflects bullying in schools.
It tells the story of a girl who has just entered high school and is repeatedly abused by three boys, and even filmed as a threat.
Unable to bear the pain, the girl chose to end her life.
The story didn't end there, the girl's mother saw the video.
In order to help her daughter get justice, the mother traveled around, but did not get the results she wanted.
In the end, she could only choose to take the risk and personally end the three boys, and then she fell under the guns of the police.
I believe that people who have watched this movie will grit their teeth at the end of this story.
But the real case is even worse than what the movie presents.
At that time, the girl had mental problems due to the long period of torture, and after his death, the police intervened in the matter.
In the course of the investigation, the police found that nearly 24 students had assaulted the girls.
Who would have thought that a well-behaved student in school uniform had a demon hidden inside.
The release of this film brought a lot of repercussions, and people began to realize that school bullying happened all around us.
Only when we take up the arms of the law to fight back against this evil will they truly feel afraid.
Part II: Memories of Killing
There are two reasons why this movie has become a classic.
One is because he was based on a true case, and the murderer was not caught when it was released at the time.
The second reason is that what the director shows in this film is not as simple as this case.
The year before, the criminals in the prototype case of this film finally fell into the net, and the film once again came to the audience.
The lead actor Bong Joon-ho has also been unanimously recognized by everyone with his excellent acting skills.
The film's prototype case is a long-outstanding case that is representative of South Korea, the Hwaseong serial murder case, which has been investigated by the police for nearly 20 consecutive years after the case.
In the end, the investigation was terminated because it exceeded the legal proceeding period.
At that time, everyone was wondering if the murderer was going to escape the punishment of the law, and Song Kang-ho and Kim Sang-kyung in the movie did not find the truth of the facts.
And in 2019. They found new clues that the suspect had been jailed in another case as early as 1994.
At this point, "Memories of Killing" can also be ended, but it is not known whether the victim's family can accept this reality.
Part III: The Chaser
The film is based on the true case of Yoo Yong-cheol, a murderous demon who sensationalized korea at the time.
Once released, it received numerous nominations, and the film tells the story of a former criminal police officer, Zhonghao, who left the police station and took up the job of managing the "call girl".
You can understand what this name sounds like, and we won't repeat it here.
Only for a certain period of time, the group of sisters under his hands disappeared one after another.
He believed that someone must have deliberately committed the crime, and in order to be able to catch the real culprit, he conducted a series of investigations and finally determined that the tail number of a suspect was 4885.
Just then the call came in. Zhonghao sent the recruit girl over.
But in the blink of an eye, the girl lost contact, and in order to be able to investigate the matter, he embarked on a dangerous path.
This film breaks through the traditional crime thriller, and every character shown in it is the current situation of society at that time.
The director also does not deliberately create a horror and depressing atmosphere, but uses an extraordinary calmness to make the audience frightened.
Because of the overly realistic depictions, he has also been called a 21st-century Korean self-portrait.
Part IV: "Children"
The story takes place on a day in 1991 when five little boys get together and plan to go to the mountains to play.
Just like that, the day passed, and the parents of the children waited and waited at home, but the children never returned.
They immediately went to the police station to report to the police, but they were electing the deputies, and the police station was too busy to find the five children.
The police thought they were making a fuss and ignored their parents' pleas.
In this way, they missed the best time to rescue, and a full four months passed, and the children still did not return.
The incident also attracted the attention of the superiors, and the police began to really send people to investigate the matter.
However, the five children were still not found, and the case was adapted into a movie for release.
Ironically, 11 years after the incident, the children finally found it in Wolong Mountain, where the police had searched and rescued countless times.
Obviously so close, but there is no way to see their children, this is a painful thing for these parents.
And when the murderer is finally arrested, it also makes us feel endless anger.
He had no motive to kill, just because of his antisocial personality.
And this makes us feel even more afraid.
Imagine if someone you pass by on the street will become an abuser in the next second.
In the end, I can only hope that these children who have suffered accidents for no reason can play happily and freely in heaven.
Part V: The Itaewon Murders
In 1997, at a hamburger shop in Itaewon, a Korean male college student was killed in a washroom by two Men of Korean American descent.
Both suspects have strong backgrounds, and the crime scene has long been destroyed by the waiters who entered the scene for the first time.
For this reason, the police did not get any useful information.
According to the surveillance evidence at the time, there were only two suspects and victims in the washroom.
They can only put the direction of the investigation on these two suspects.
But what people did not expect was that the two suspects said that the other was the murderer.
With no evidence, the two suspects had to be released, but the case did not end.
In the 16 years since, the two sides have still been biting each other as murderers.
Finally, in 2015, the two got the punishment they deserved, and that's where the film came from. The most infuriating thing about this is that the murderer is standing in front of you, and there is no evidence to arrest him.
Unlike other films based on real cases, the film was threatened by the criminals of the case at the beginning of filming.
But in order to let more people know about this matter, the director still understood the pressure to shoot him.
The Sixth Part of "The Voice of that Guy"
The prototype of this movie and "Memories of Killing" and "Children" are the three most brutal mysteries in South Korea.
The story takes place in the 1990s, when news anchor Han Jingpei's nine-year-old son, Shang Yu, mysteriously disappeared.
Then the kidnapper's extortion call came, and the mouth was 100 million won, and there was no room for concessions.
In desperation, they could only report the case to the police.
Although the police intervened in the case, it did not have much impact on the highly intelligent kidnappers.
40 days have passed, and there has been no progress in the case.
Everyone understood that the child might have been more fierce, and at this time, Han Jingpei's mood also changed from initial fear and fear to anger.
In order to be able to rescue the child, he even began to confront the kidnappers head-on.
This movie is not like other crime films, and it wants to express the feeling of revenge.
He only used this incident to illustrate the sociality behind him.
The parents in the film have changed their personalities because their children are kidnapped, desperate, angry, and even have hatred for this society.
When the film was released, the director was interviewed, and he said that the film was originally made so as not to forget something.
Part VII: "Princess Han"
A 17-year-old flower girl is in the most carefree time.
Han Gongzhu loves music and dreams of becoming a singer, but his life is completely lost due to an accident.
In order to get out of this shadow, he transferred to a new school.
Here, she made a lot of kind friends and slowly walked out of the shadows of the past.
It's just that such a beautiful day didn't last long.
One day, the parents of her former classmates suddenly came to Princess Han to the school.
The secrets she desperately wanted to hide were also ruthlessly uncovered.
The film is based on a real incident of mass sexual violence on campus in Miyang, South Korea.
At that time, three teenage girls were abused by dozens of high school students, one of whom tried to end his life.
The film focuses more on the victim, Princess Han.
Everyone she met after she was violated seemed cruel and indifferent.
The audience in front of the screen wanted to pull the Korean princess, but it seemed very inadequate.
Because the injury had already happened, no amount of assistance would only add a little more pain to her wound.
Part VIII: The Gift of Room 7
This movie is different from the above films, he does not have so many depressing pictures, but at the end of the movie is a warm and happy ending.
In 1997, a man with an IQ of only six years old, Li Longjiu, and his very cute daughter Yisheng were dependent on each other.
Although they are not very rich, they are also very happy.
One day a little girl fainted on the side of the road, and Long Jiu's first reaction was to rescue her, but his performance looked like he was violating the girl to outsiders.
Soon he was taken to the police station, and the girl who had the accident was the daughter of the police chief.
In this way, he was put in a cell, and at the time of one prison fire. Desperate, he ran into the fire and rescued the warden.
It was this incident that made the warden change his mind about him.
He asked the police chief whether he could retry Long Jiu's case, but the chief who had lost his beloved daughter insisted that it was Long Jiu's fault.
Although the case was retried, under the threat of the director, Long Jiu was forced to confess to the crime.
At the end of the story, Yisheng grew up to become a lawyer.
And he rehabilitated his father, but Long Jiu could no longer hear it.
Part 9: "Suyuan"
The popularity of this movie must not be introduced too much.
Suyuan is a very beautiful little girl, on a trip to school, met a drunken man.
It was raining, and Suyuan handed him her umbrella out of kindness.
Unexpectedly, this became a turning point in her fate, and she was violated by this irrational middle-aged man.
After the parents rushed to the hospital, they saw their daughter's appearance and had completely collapsed.
In the subsequent police investigation, he identified the man, but the man lied and denied it, which also attracted the public's accusations against him.
However, the outcome of the case was not satisfactory, the man was only sentenced to twelve years, but Suyuan was plunged into darkness because of the media reports and social attention.
Finally, accompanied by family and friends, Suyuan stepped out of the shadows.
The end of the film is a good memory, but the real life of Suyuan has not come out.
Even the criminals at that time had been released from prison, which was tantamount to hitting the little girl's heart again.
The appearance of this film has also made the audience's attention to such cases skyrocket.
In this way, I hope that the criminals who lurk in the shadows will be able to stop here.