After the 1990s, many so-called scholars and celebrities commented:
"Korean cinema has entered a rapid rise."
Because at this time, South Korea not only won various awards at the three major european film festivals, but also created its own international influence.
Moreover, in the creation of themes, it is also constantly innovating, paying more and more attention to the meaning of practical significance and irony and vigilance.
Especially spy war movies, in the context of the unique political culture of North and South Korea,
Through repositioning and refining localization elements, adopting Hollywood shooting styles and techniques, a large number of spy war movies with word-of-mouth and ratings have flown together.
They are unique and profound, occupying an important place in the Korean film system.
Today, the film recommended by The Red Face Show to everyone is called:
《Work》
This film was invited to participate in the official event of the 71st Cannes International Film Festival in 2018, and was shortlisted for the midnight screening unit of this year's film festival.
And has been praised by the global media and audiences for the spy war blockbuster.
"Work" was translated as "Secret Agent" on Douban and scored 7.7 points,
Scored 6.6 on IMDB.
For this film, many reports gave high praise:
"With meticulous historical details, a high degree of mastery of the actors' performance, and a true capture of the North Korean appearance, the director makes a realistic, unpretentious but brilliant and solid spy film that shakes people's hearts."
This spy film is mainly about the mid-1990s,
In order to understand the facts of North Korea's nuclear development, South Korea launched the "Black Venus" operation.
An intelligence officer assigned to the South Korean National Security Planning Department, he infiltrated North Korea for the first time as a South Korean spy.
In order to gather intelligence, he hides his true identity,
In the name of promoting the common development of the north-south cause, close to the core figures of the Korean power class,
At the same time, he accidentally discovers that there is some kind of secret deal between the top levels of the Korean and North Koreans, and in the mediation with the power classes in the North and the South, a series of dangerous and tense stories have occurred.
In the film, Hwang Jeong-min plays a spy who is mixed into North Korea code-named "Black Venus".
Lee Seung-min plays Lee Myung-yun, director of the Dprk Foreign Economic Commission, who is responsible for earning foreign exchange for North Korea.
Cho Playing Choi Joo-sung, the head of the Overseas Office of South Korea's National Security Planning Department, who is responsible for planning the espionage and issuing instructions to him,
The last key figure, Jung Moo-taek, chief of the North Korean Ministry of State Security in Beijing, is played by Mr. Chu.
Audiences familiar with Korean movies should know that
The above-mentioned starring actors are all acting male gods!
Huang Zhengmin, who once won the Korean Blue Dragon Award and the Big Bell Award, is a veritable actor with a thousand faces.
"New World", "International Market", "Veteran", "Prosecutor's Tale", "Asura"...
Each of his dramatic roles is a new breakthrough; every time he is portrayed, he can show good expressiveness.
So Korean fans said: With him in it, rest assured.
Li Shengmin, when he first debuted, won the Most Outstanding Acting Award of the National Drama Festival.
The subsequent appearance of "Golden Hour" proved his good acting skills, winning three acting awards in one fell swoop.
In the popular Korean drama "Unborn" in the past few years, he successfully won three awards such as the best actor at the 51st Baeksang Arts Awards with the role of Wu Kechang.
It is this Korean drama with the highest score of the year with a Douban score of 9.3 that allows more Chinese audiences to start to know him.
Zhao Zhenxiong, with the conspiracy criminal police in the thriller action film "To the End",
Won the Best Supporting Actor at the 35th Korea Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Best Actor in a Movie at the 51st Baeksang Arts Awards.
He has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor many times, which is a testimony to his hard work and steady work along the way, especially the hit "Signal" and "Miss" a few years ago.
Let the audience see how he slowly honed from an obscure supporting role to a single male number one.
Joo Ji-hoon, who can remember that he was the "Li Xin" who became popular overnight in the Popular Korean idol drama "Gong" more than a decade ago?
At that time, he was undoubtedly a popular idol loved by the audience, and he won various star awards such as the "Popular Star Award" and the "Star of the Year Award" many times.
But the various masterpieces launched in recent years have constantly reminded the audience that he has long been reborn on the screen and gradually stepped towards a real actor.
In addition to Huang Zhengmin, Li Shengmin, Zhao Zhenxiong, Zhu Zhixun, four outstanding actors with both personality and acting skills,
There is another person who has to mention, that is, the director of this movie: Yin Zhongbin,
As a director, he has directed many wonderful films such as "War with Crime: The Heyday of bad guys", "Bandits: The Age of Civil Unrest", "Unforgivable" and so on.
Some people commented that each work has a deep core, which can present the fierce conflicts that people experience in turbulent times on the screen, which is thought-provoking.
This is after 2006's "Unforgivable" was shortlisted for a kind of attention unit in Cannes.
The film directed by Yoon Jong-bin was screened for the second time at the Cannes Film Festival,
This realistic film vividly presents the coexistence and confrontation of spies during the continuous Cold War between the north and the south.
When "Work" returned to the film industry, it had been four years since the last film directed by Yin Zhongbin.
Director Yin Zhongbin said that this is a "sword" that he has only sharpened in four years, and how sharp and sharp this sword is, only the audience who has seen it knows.
And everything in this movie is based on the premise that this is a movie based on real events.
In South Korea, there is currently an organization with more than 30,000 personnel, and here, almost everyone is anonymous.
It is South Korea's CIA, the South Korean National Intelligence Service.
This was officially born after the Korean War.
Park Chung-hee, the father of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, modeled after the CIA, has a complete spy intelligence system, modeled on the secret intelligence work agency of the CIA.
Under the direct leadership of the President, the military and political espionage agencies that govern the whole country,
It can be said that this large and hidden intelligence agency is entirely the product of the Cold War between North and South Korea and the long-term rule in South Korea.
Since its establishment, the problem between South Korea and North Korea has been there.
Friction is constant, strife is constant, and there is often a cold war,
Therefore, the film "Work" faces the problem that has been a headache for the two countries since the Korean War: the relationship between the two Koreas.
More attention is paid to the current state of politics and the country in North and South Korea, and how a spy can commercially influence the disconnect between the two Koreas in the context of the times.
Therefore, it is different from the US-Soviet Cold War spy films that we are familiar with.
With high-intensity action, and passionate gun battles,
It is devoted to the deception between the two sides for most of the time, leaving only a little of the thrilling moment when the spy almost revealed his identity during the mission.
But in the realistic style of the film,
Everywhere reveals the film industry's ambition to record its own country's history, and a strong sense of social responsibility, which is both suspenseful and with a little black humor.
The first part of the film takes the perspective of an undercover agent,
Lead the audience to understand the way of the South Korean intelligence agency, and the strict prevention of outsiders by the North Korean Ministry of Security, the plot is compact, the details are meticulous, and the progress is slow.
The latter section begins in 1997 when South Korea began its presidential elections.
Exposing the corruption of Korean politics at that time ushered in an exciting and sharp turn.
At the end of the film, it stays at the advertising shooting scene where the two actresses in North and South Korea represent Lee Hyo-ri and Cho Ming-ai.
Among them, the two people who contributed to this "advertising diplomacy of the century" showed each other gifts, although they were silent, but everything was in silence;
Although there can be no deeper communication, their hearts and minds can be connected.
At that time, Lee Hyo-ri and Cho Ming-ae shot a Samsung anycall advertisement, Kim Jong-il called Cho Ming-ai the "Flower of Unification", and the Samsung in the south also paid the price of Zhao Ming'ai's first-line star.
Some people say that this situation, like the relationship between North and South Korea at that time, was as delicate as the relationship between North and South Korea at that time, and on the surface it was separated, but behind it there was a certain degree of dependence on each other.
Like a line in the film:
"For the commissioner, there is only one motherland, and for me, there is only one motherland."
When the South Korean people are reluctant to buy foreign goods, and the merchants label north Korean and resell,
In fact, it has been revealed that South Korea believes more in its compatriot North Korea and hopes to reduce the economic burden of the North Korean people with consumption, which also vaguely expresses the subtle and complex emotions between two people belonging to the same nation and different countries.
Most of the people at that time were reluctant to split, hoping to be reunited with their brothers who were "one mother and one brother".
Confronted with the work, adapted from the true story of South Korean spies in the 1990s, the director said:
"I've always wanted to make a realistic spy movie, and North and South Korea, the only place in the world that's still in a Cold War state, is a perfect fit.
I also hope that through the encounter between the protagonist and him, the audience will think about what it means for us to regard each other as enemies for many years. ”
It can be said that whether it is "Iron Rain" that caused heated discussion last year, or "Work" that was just released this year,
The unprecedented transformation of Korean genre films in their political stance and unprecedented attention to people's livelihood and social issues have achieved great respect for history, advanced guidance for the future, and benign interaction with reality.
The world needs such films, and China needs such an attitude even more, doesn't it?