Title: Walking with God - Sin and Punishment
Director: Kim Yong-hwa
Starring: Ha Jeong-woo / Cha Tae-hyun / Kim Heung-ki / Joo Ji-hoon / Kim Dong-wook / Do Kyung-so
Genre: Fantasy / Drama / Touching
Language: Korean
Production area: South Korea
Duration: 139 minutes
Release Date: December 20, 2017 (South Korea)
Douban score: 7.8
The full text is 2094 words long and takes about 5 minutes to read
"All human beings are guilty, but only a few can summon up real courage to ask for forgiveness, while a smaller minority of the minority can be truly forgiven."
--Lord Yama
The plot of the film
There is a law in Hades, and all the dead are judged seven times in the 49 days after death—in the prison of murder, the prison of laziness, the prison of deception, the prison of injustice, the prison of betrayal, the prison of violence, and the prison of heaven, and only those who have passed seven trials and acquitted themselves will have a chance to be reborn.
Firefighter Kim Zi-hung died in a fire to save a girl from falling from a height. The Messenger of Hell, Jie Wei and Li Dechun, appeared in front of Jin Zihong. Although Jin Zihong could not accept his own death and kept shouting, he was still sucked into hell.
In front of the Gate of the First Army of Hell, Jin Zihong met the third emissary, Jiang Lin. He was in charge of the emissaries of The Grievance Pulse and Dechun, and at the same time defended Jin Zihong's seven trials. It turned out that the Great King of Yama had promised that if 49 deceased people were given a past life within 1,000 years, the three messengers could also be reincarnated. They believe that the nobleman Jin Zihong, who has only appeared in the past 19 years, can successfully pass the trial and regain a new life. The entire film and television drama plot is also gradually unfolded in trial after trial.
In the play, the hell of injustice and the hell of betrayal are not present because of Kim's righteousness, and there are only five trials that really appear, each of which is more serious than the previous crime, and the trial is more rigorous.
In a fire rescue operation, Jin Zihong missed the time to save his colleagues in order to save more innocent people, and the building collapsed and filled with fire, resulting in the indirect killing of colleagues. In this rescue, Jin Zihong saved 8 innocent people, although he missed the rescue time, but the merit and guilt are light and heavy, and he knows it all. After some consideration, King Bian Cheng pronounced his acquittal.
The second trial of laziness hell, Jin Zihong engaged in the firefighter profession during the day, fighting for the front line of fire rescue; working part-time in a barbecue restaurant at night, lighting a fire to serve dishes; working part-time as a substitute driver late at night, tired; and cleaning up public baths on weekends. It took fifteen years to work so diligently. Although he personally admitted that he had worked hard only to make money and become a slave to money, he was preparing to apply for the judge's examination for his mother, who was seriously ill at home, and his younger brother, who was still in school. Seeing this, the King of Chujiang was deeply moved and announced that Jin Zihong had passed without guilt.
A group of four people came to the sword forest, but found that hell had changed, time was accelerating, and evil spirits were rampant. If there is such a phenomenon, the relatives who will die and be judged will suddenly suffer a catastrophe and die unjustly. Looking for these answers, Jiang Lin came to Yangjian to investigate the truth. Learned the truth about Kim Soo-hong's unjust death. The sin of Jin Xiuhong's unjust death has achieved the punishment of revenge, and the unjust ghost Jin Xiuhong wanders in the yang and tries to put the person who killed him to death. In order for Jin Zihong to safely pass the Seven Trials, Jiang Lin must find Jin Xiuhong's body and destroy it, so that the unjust ghost can disappear forever.
In the third trial of the hell of lies, Jin Zihong pretended to be a dead colleague and wrote a letter to his daughter as the father of the child, cheering for the child and hiding the truth for many years. He has also been writing letters to his mother with lies such as starting a family and being happy, only for his mother not to worry about herself. Although Jin has been weaving lies for many years, he has made his colleague's daughter confident and strong, and let her mother worry less. Despite the lies, they gave her good guidance, and this round of trial was found not guilty.
The fourth trial of violent hell has brought the emotional contradiction between Kim Zi-hong and Kim So-hung's brothers to the maximum. Here everyone saw that the former Jin Zihong blindly beat his brother, leading to the secret that Jin Zihong had hidden for 15 years. The story of Hades and Yang intersects and returns to the main line.
Jiang Feng's emissaries found Jin Xiuhong's body in the Yang Dynasty, but they did not heed the advice of the grievances and burned the body. Instead, it has gone through a lot of twists and turns to subdue the unjust ghosts.
In the violent prison, Jin Zihong was devastated by the image of beating his brother, and the emissary knew that he could not help him exonerate him, and proposed to punish this trial together with the next trial. If the accused is unable to acquit himself, the penalty will be increased and the identity of the defender will be stripped of his identity.
The fifth trial of Tianlun Prison, the story of the whole film reaches a climax, revealing the beginning and end of Jin Zihong's 15 years away from home and beating his brother. It turned out that Jin Zihong's family was poor. The younger brother was severely malnourished and the mother was seriously ill. Desperate for life, he prepares to cover his mother with a pillow and then commit suicide by taking sleeping pills with his brother.
But Jin Zihong held a pillow high in the air but did not want to fall for a long time, and his brother woke up in his sleep, and when he saw this scene, he kept asking his brother: "What are you going to do?" Jin Zihong turned around and beat his brother in anger, then snatched the door and left. Fifteen years of hard work to send money home, but did not dare to meet his mother and beg for forgiveness.
This scene was strongly rebuked by the King of Yama, who gave Jin Zihong fifteen years, hoping that he could ask his mother for forgiveness, but he was slow to get an answer.
The two Jin Zihong brothers thought that their mother did not know anything about this matter, but they did not expect that their mother was very sober that night, and did not stop Jin Zihong from trying to kill him. Tears were shed in grief and self-blame.
Seeing this scene, Jin Zihong was already in tears and remorseful. At the critical moment, Jiang Feng's emissaries asked the unjust ghost Jin Xiuhong to dream to his mother, to tell the events of that night and ask for forgiveness. Her mother had already sincerely forgiven Jin Zihong in her heart, and felt deep remorse for dragging them down.
"All human beings are guilty, but only a few can summon up real courage to ask for forgiveness, while a smaller minority of the minority can be truly forgiven." In the end, the King of Yan Luo made a judgment, and Jin Zihong, because of the sincere forgiveness of his mother on earth, would no longer be judged in Hades, and he would be reincarnated.
Film insights
When Jin Zihong completed every trial from the Chujun Gate, it was like a giant hammer hitting everyone's heart hard. The gruesome punishments of hell are constantly admonishing the living all the time that human wrongs may be covered up, that they may be forgotten over time, but here every sin will be clearly recorded.
Sincere repentance, ask for forgiveness, and forgiveness are the final gifts of the magistrates in "Walking with God : Sin and Punishment" to the deceased sinners, and a guide to every audience.