I found an interesting rule, the Korean entertainment industry may have a vendetta against the Korean authorities, Korean film and television works, whether it is action, horror, drama, crime, disaster films... Many of these films have one thing in common, and that is the black authorities who do their best - black governments, black police, black media, black prosecutors... To sum up, politicians, chaebols, and the media are complicit, power, money, and public opinion are in the same boat, and the fish and flesh of the people.
A few days ago, I watched a Large-scale Restricted Movie in South Korea, "See the Devil", I felt that I was still unfinished, and I wanted to find similar works again, especially impressive is that the lead actor Lee Byung-hyun has become more and more interested in this man.
If Ma Dong seok is the last man in South Korea, then Lee Byung-hyun is the second, and it feels like he is not like what our subconscious thinks - Korean small fresh meat, but a powerful actor whose appearance and acting skills coexist, and the small fresh meat Oba who is often seen in Korean idol dramas has a great difference.
After seeing his outstanding performance in "Seeing the Devil", I specifically searched for the man's other works, and found that he also starred in another large-scale movie - "The Insider", and many people may have questions, thinking that the size of the insider is not large, but the subject matter chosen is more sensitive. After in-depth research, I found that perhaps these netizens did not watch the original version, but watched the 2-hour deleted version, and the guide cut version actually had a total of 3 hours.
Speaking of the movie "Insider", we have to sigh that Koreans really dare to shoot anything, what kind of "insider" does this insider refer to? In fact, it has been explained very clearly in the movie, according to the plot of the movie, on the one hand, it refers to the people within the "special dinner", and the other layer means the people within the layout of the big guys in the news world.
From the theme chosen by the movie "The Insider" to the radical democratization movement shown to the audience in "The Defender", it also reflects that south Korea has been inseparable from politics since ancient times, the country is still the same, the film is the same, and "Those People At That Time" is a model in these Korean political films.
The film boldly presents the famous 10.26 event, so what is the 10.26 event? On October 26, 1979, then-South Korean President Park Chung-hee was assassinated at the dinner bureau, and the assassin was kim jae-gyu, a close confidant of his own, then the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA).
The event also became a turning point in South Korea's history, ending the "Fourth Republic" led by Park Chung-hee.
In December of that year, the long-planned Chun doo-hwa staged a military coup d'état that began the era of the "Fifth Republic" and continued the authoritarian politics of the Park Chung-hee era, even more so.
The 10.26 incident is derived from this, which is equivalent to the "Kennedy assassination" in South Korea.
Through the above films, we can see how bold the selection of Korean films is, and today we will focus on the movie "The Insider".
The protagonist is still Li Jiangxi's subordinate at the beginning, because Li Jiangxi has the grace of knowing himself, so he is also dead hearted as a thug, specially doing some dirty work for Li Jiangxi.
Therefore, when the protagonist got the evidence of collusion between the political candidates and the future car, he was very proud to give It to Lee Jiang-hee first, but what he did not expect was that it was Lee Jiang-hee, a big man in the media industry, who manipulated all this.
So Li Jiangxi arranged for his subordinates to pick up the protagonist's black brick and cruelly saw off his right hand, and the deposed protagonist could only live a long and surviving life under the supervision of Li Jiangxi, relying on the toilet to collect tips for a living.
However, the protagonist was a street gangster at the beginning, there was a fierce force in his bones, and the deposed right hand did not affect his determination to take revenge, so he secretly contacted his former little brother, during which he also hooked up with a young and vigorous prosecutor full of justice, and together collected evidence of the crimes committed by Li Jiangxi in politics, business, press, and prosecutors, during which in order to get evidence, he even sacrificed his woman.
Unfortunately, it was difficult to break into the enemy's interior, and by chance, the video watch went into the water, and did not get enough evidence to make all this fall short.
Later, due to the betrayal of his younger brother, his beloved woman also died.
Finally, after careful deliberations between the protagonist and the young prosecutor, it was decided to perform a play, in which the young prosecutor took the hard-won crime recording and handed it to Lee Jae-hee, successfully gained Lee Jae-hee's trust, broke into the enemy's interior, entered the dinner bureau, and became an insider.
At the dinner table, the young prosecutor filmed the ugly faces and criminal evidence of these people through the secret camera made in advance, and finally made these evidence public, successfully overthrowing this interest group.
In fact, the plot of the whole drama is very easy to understand at first glance, but until I saw the final villain, the big man of the press, Lee Kang-hee, leisurely playing the phone in prison, at this time I suddenly realized that everyone (including his enemies) was just his pawns, and only he was an insider.
The whole plot can be summed up as follows: Under the layout of li Jiangxi, a big man in the press, first of all, through the collusion between officials and businessmen, the trade of power and money, and the trade of power and color, an interest group was formed, with the intention of winning the general election, and then through the media and the press to control public opinion, and then engage in black and gold politics, corruption and bribery, and buy murder, and finally because of dissatisfaction with the various ghost fetuses of the interest groups in which he is now, he decided to reshuffle the cards, so he found a big hand that had been pulled up by one hand as a substitute for the dead ghost, and charged into the battle. There is also a bloody picture of the protagonist (played by Li Bingxian) being dropped by the live drama at the beginning of the game.
The protagonist who is regarded as a pawn, in the end, does not know that he is always just a pawn, and it seems that he has united young and enthusiastic prosecutors to overthrow the interest group headed by Li Jiangxi, but in fact, it is only Li Jiangxi who uses his hand to eliminate dissidents.
Because the film is too exaggerated, so that this drama has become a large-scale restrictive film, the most uncomfortable of which is the footage of the insider eating, and sometimes have to admire the imagination of the screenwriter and director, saying that art comes from life, the film comes from reality, and there are probably no scenes in reality, which are shown by these ghost writers and directors through the lens.