Stills from the movie "Remember Me"
Born in 1995, South Korean actress Kim Do-mi is well known to domestic audiences as a middle school girl in the movie "Witch". A poor little one who was trembling under the coercion of the bad guys one moment became the top killer who slaughtered the entire team of agents the next. When she had a chilling smile on her face covered in blood, it was hard to associate her with the cute and innocent schoolgirl she had been before.
Stills from the movie "Witch" starring Kim Domi
However, before starring in the movie "Witch", Kim Do-mi starred in another film that is more socially realistic and reflects the safety of Korean women and juvenile delinquency, "Remember Me".
Actor Kim Domi
A female teacher who was about to get married fell into a coma after drinking a drink and woke up the next day to receive a video from someone who signed master about being tied up and bullied in her coma. All this made the female teacher so familiar, as if the nightmare of her own girlhood had reappeared.
9 years ago, Liu Min'er, a female junior high school student played by Kim Duomei, had a new love and fell in love with a handsome high school senior. However, when Liu Min'er went on a date with the senior high school senior, she was drugged by the other party and was insulted by many people in her coma. The senior high school student took a video of the crime to coerce Liu Min'er for a long time. Later, in order to make money, high school seniors even posted videos on the Internet for netizens to watch for a fee. With the increase in the number of viewers, this bad case finally attracted the attention of South Korean society, and the high school students who committed evil have since fled, and Liu Min'er has also changed her name and surname and become a female teacher later.
Poster for the movie "Remember Me"
Once again, she became the victim of the "marionette case" 9 years ago, which made the female teacher's body and mind almost collapse. Then she found that one of her female students was also experiencing the tragedy that had happened to her, and the weak female teacher finally became strong and decided to fight to the death to help her students, which was also saving herself. However, as the investigation deepened, the female teachers found that one evil person after another who caused her new misfortune was actually a minor, and it was actually her own students.
The overall atmosphere of "Remember Me" is depressing, making the audience feel a sense of powerlessness and resignation. As the plot continues to turn, it is surprising that the evil person can be so bad. However, this movie does not create "evil" out of thin air to respond to the audience, and all kinds of evil people in the film, as well as unscrupulous onlookers who intentionally or unintentionally protect the evil people, can find real shadows in Korean society. For example, the handsome high school student who committed evil in that year, usually shows that the other side of the world is the excellent student with excellent academic performance, which makes people reflect on the fact that they cannot evaluate the effectiveness of education by the level of score; when school bullying occurs, the victim students do not get help from teachers, classmates and parents; after the "marionette case" was exposed, South Korea's public opinion circles not only did not protect the privacy of the victims, but constantly excavated the so-called "fierce material" for people to hunt; when minors do evil, adults always say a sentence "children do not understand things" and gently expose it. And when minors commit unforgivable crimes, they are always not punished by the law.
In recent years, South Korea has made many films that reflect the real social problems in South Korea, such as "Princess Han", "Melting Pot", "Miyang", etc., although the audience shouts sadism, but at the same time, it also exposes the real ugly side of Korean society, calling for more people to pay attention to and discuss these social problems.
Stills from the movie "Princess Han"
Stills from the movie "The Melting Pot"
Author: Wei Zhong
Editor: Chen Xihan