Friends in the Korean circle will probably understand the Military Service System in South Korea: Male citizens between the ages of 20 and 28 (from officials to civilians) are required to perform military service according to law. The story of Netflix's new drama "D.P Deserter Pursuit Order" takes place in South Korea, where the national military service system is established.
For various reasons, South Korea produces a certain number of deserters every year, and the DP group is the group in the South Korean army responsible for capturing deserters and returning them to the camp. After the protagonist of the play, An Joon-ho, joined the army, he was selected as a member of the DP group for some reason, and together with his partner Han Haolie, he was responsible for capturing deserters. The 6 episodes of the whole series revolve around the story of 5 deserters, which is short and concise, with the texture of a movie version.
After the show aired, there was a boom, and the accompanying military problems became a popular social event in South Korea. For example, in 2014, the South Korean army had a series of violent bullying deaths, and in 2019, it was also exposed by the media that there was cruel abuse of sexual minorities in the military. Incidents such as these occur from time to time in South Korea, and the media media reports will cause a big wave in South Korea, but the improvement of the situation is minimal. Because it is extremely realistic, countless Korean male stars who have served in the military in the 2nd and 30th generations have watched and said "scalp tingling", and the South Korean military has said that "the drama is receiving attention from abroad, which makes us embarrassed.".
Although there are only 6 episodes in the whole series, the emotions expressed in each episode are different, from the initial depression, to the unexpected comedic effect, to the occasional warmth, and finally to the heaviness and despair, Ahn Joon-ho and Han Hao-yeol, including their superior, Sergeant Park, have been trying to save each deserter and eventually lead to tragedy, and the story eventually leads to tragedy.
Ding Haiyin, the protagonist with a salty and sweet image, followed up with "Witty Prison Life" and once again put on a military decoration to perform the second class of An Junhao, who was a member of the arrest team. The character "An Junhao" is a quiet, calm but somewhat inflexible youth, as he and Han Haolie launched a deserter pursuit operation, he found that many deserters were forced to be deserters because they could not withstand violent bullying, sexual harassment and other acts, but when they were arrested, those soldiers who bullied, abused, and harassed them were almost not punished, and the bullied suffered a double blow of body and mind.
He is both a director and a favorite actor in "zombie-themed" films and television films, and has starred in "Busan Trip: Peninsula" and "Kingdom: Yashin", and played the superior soldier "Han Haolie", who broke away from the arrest team leader in "D.P: Desertion Order".
Kim Sung-joon played the role of Sergeant Park Fan-joo, the officer in charge of the arrest unit.
Sun Xijiu plays Lieutenant "Lin Zhixie", an independent gendarmerie cadre from the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, who is a character who only pays attention to actual performance and uses D.P. as a thorn in the eye, which will make the whole drama look more nervous.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" How to catch deserters >? </h1>
Like Netflix's "D.P: Desertion Warrant", the military camp or the government will provide basic information to D.P or issue a wanted notice, including family, friends, girlfriends, etc. or through the name and information of the deserter.
Deserters who have no one to rely on outside, once they contact their families, will of course be known by D.P, so deserters generally do not go home or find friends directly, but stay outside, and the places that often appear are sweat steaming screens and Internet cafes. Orphaned deserters are completely unable to survive and are more likely to commit crimes such as theft, which is why D.P wants to find them.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="71" > what deserters have in common</h1>
In the film, it is also mentioned that deserters are definitely not bad people, let alone bad people, but too cowardly, fragile, unable to withstand pressure, bullied in the barracks and fled, or as caring soldiers.
The "caring soldier" here refers to the soldier with mental or physical disability, depression, and limited mobility, and all men in South Korea need to be soldiers, and the caring soldier is a special concern in the army.
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In Netflix's "D.P", you can see that the two protagonists have almost exhausted various martial arts in order to catch deserters, turning over and over on the roof, running all the way to chase deserters, which just chases the drama and makes people's hearts nervous with the protagonists. But D.P.'s real-life work as a "plainclothes cop" is indeed written with the words "dangerous."
In addition, the lovers who enlist in the military will also break up because of the mutiny, and one of the real incidents is also from the experience of praise, which is suspected that the deserters who have been mutinied will wander or invade the girlfriend's home, and the D.P group is ambushing there, which unexpectedly led to tragedy.
At the end of the story, the deserter Cao Shifeng used extreme tragic emotions and calm lines to accuse the most profound institutional problems of this subject before committing suicide by drinking bullets. It's not that no one knows, it's not that nothing happened, it's just that no one has ever changed, and everyone is trying to pretend that nothing happened.
From a larger level, this is not only a problem in the military in South Korea, but also involves the abnormal culture of the predecessors and the younger generations in the whole society, and the arbitrary bullying of the predecessors to the younger generations occurs from time to time, in schools and in the workplace, without exception. So when Ahn Joon-ho went to visit his companion who had died because he had been bullied in the army, the other party's sister only asked him leisurely: Why are you standing by and watching.
The actors of the whole drama vividly interpreted the problems exposed during the Korean military service, which stimulated a good performance spark for each other, so that the audience's viewing experience was more fluent.
The success of "D.P Deserter Pursuit Order" lies not only in choosing a theme with a unique perspective and high attention, but also in the fact that the presentation of the entire plot is not superficial, so that as the story progresses, it is constantly digging the key to the problem and reflecting on the root cause of the problem.
Many times, the production level of the TV series and the appreciation level of the audience always complement each other, and "D.P Deserter Pursuit Order" once again proves that this relationship is established, a better drama, a better audience, and a better ecology.