We fight all the way, not to change the world, but to prevent the world from changing us.
- "The Melting Pot"
On September 22, 2011, a film based on Korean law was released.
It's The Melting Pot.
Based on real events, The Melting Pot tells a story of despair. A story about sexual abuse of children with disabilities.
Today, it is with a heavy heart that I will introduce this movie to you.
Kang In-ho, who came from Seoul to work in Ngojin City, crashed and killed a silly roe deer on the road. When repairing the car, I met Xu Youzhen at the Human Rights Defense Center.
Because Ren Hao's car broke down, Xu Youzhen sent Ren Hao to the place where he wanted to work, the Loving Love Academy (School for the Deaf and Dumb).
When Ren Hao came to the school to give lessons to the students, he found that the children were not normal, but his colleague Teacher Park said that these children had physical disabilities, resulting in psychological abnormalities, so that Ren Hao did not care too much.
Ren Hao wanted to know about the child's situation, at school to read the information until midnight, when he left, he heard the child's cry of pain coming from the women's toilet, Ren Hao knocked on the door of the toilet, asking about the situation inside, but the crying suddenly stopped.
Just as Ren Hao was about to open the door and go inside, the school security guard appeared and stopped Ren Hao and told Ren Hao that the children here often made some strange noises, telling him not to make a fuss and leave quickly.
The next day, Ren Hao went to the principal's office and met the local policeman Jiang Criminal Police, who also invited Ren Hao to go out together to have fun.
Back at the office, Ren-ho sees Teacher Park beating up a boy named Min-soo and rushes to stop Teacher Park.
Teacher Park told Ren-ho that min-so sneaked out with two girls last night, and he didn't sleep all night, and that Min-soo's brother had died like this before.
In the evening, when Ren Hao came home from work, he found a girl named Yu Li sitting on the window, and the frightened Ren Hao rushed upstairs to pull Yu Li down. Ren-ho tells Yu-ri in sign language that he is worried about her. Ren Hao's behavior made Yu Li let down his guard. Took Ren Hao to a basement of the school.
Ren Hao walked in and saw a scene that shocked him.
A woman is pressing the head of a little girl named Kendou into a running washing machine.
Ren Hao screamed to stop the woman's behavior.
The woman claims to be Yin Ci'ai, the school's instructor, and tells Ren Hao not to be nosy.
Ren-ho warns Yoon-hye to send her to prison after doing such a thing, and then sends the unconscious Kendo to the hospital.
After thinking about it, Ren Haosi decided to tell Xu Youzhen, who works at the Human Rights Defense Center, about this matter.
Rushing to the hospital, Xu Youzhen saw Yeon Doo's appearance and was very distressed, so he asked Ren Hao to contact Yeon Doo's family, and Ren Hao told her that Yeon Doo was an orphan.
Back at the school, the principal and the head of the administrative office talk to In-ho (here, the principal and the head of the office are twins), saying that Yoon Ci-ae has realized his mistake and hopes that In-ho will let her go, and says that she will personally apologize to Yeon-doo.
Ren Hao said that Yeon Doo is not in good health now and is receiving treatment in the hospital.
The principal used the excuse of saying that he was going to go through the discharge procedures for Yeon Doo and asked for the name of the hospital.
At the end of the work, Ren Hao received a call from Xu Youzhen and learned a surprising secret.
Yeon Doo was sexually assaulted by the principal only because the child was too young to succeed.
At the same time, there is not only one child who has been violated, and the perpetrator is not a person, and even Teacher Park has sexually assaulted the boy.
After the children call the police, they will be sent back to school by the Jiang criminal police, and when they return to school, they will be beaten by the teacher.
That Yin Ci'ai is the headmaster's sister, and is actually the principal's lover, when she abused Yan Dou, it was because she ate Yan Dou's vinegar, she told Yan Dou that if she dared to seduce the headmaster, she would kill her.
(Seeing this, I couldn't believe my eyes.) There really are such demonic humans in the world. They throw the last shred of humanity into the endless abyss, use the convenience of their positions to infinitely magnify the evil thoughts in their hearts, and finally cultivate a behemoth. ）
Xu Youzhen took the camera to film Ren Hao's use of sign language to ask Yeon Doo about being sexually assaulted by the principal.
Holding the video, Xu Youzhen went to the Department of Education and demanded that the loving principal be relieved of his duties and punish the perpetrators of sexual assault. However, the staff of the Department of Education rejected Xu Youzhen on the grounds that the time after school was not under the control of the Department of Education, and kicked the ball to the city hall.
Citing the fact that the location was the school, the city hall kicked the ball back to the Department of Education.
Both sides shirked responsibility from each other and did not seem to care at all.
Xu Youzhen, who had no way, could only go to the police station to report the case, but Jiang Criminal Police told Xu Youzhen that the principal was a big man with a head and a face, and it was impossible to do such a thing.
Just when Xu Youzhen was helpless, he received a place interviewed by a TV station.
At the Human Rights Defense Center, in front of the live camera footage, Minxiu uses sign language to tell everything that happened at school and why his brother went to the railroad tracks to commit suicide.
Due to the spread of television, this matter has aroused the attention of the people.
Under pressure, Jiang Criminal Police could only arrest the principal, the head of the room, and Teacher Park, but on the way back to the police station, he told the principal a way to escape.
It turns out that in South Korea there is an unspoken rule of courtesy for former officials. This means that in the first case after the judge retires as a lawyer, everyone will help him win.
The principal mobilized his own resources and not only bribed the judge, but also reached a settlement with Min-soo's grandmother before the verdict.
In the end, the three inferior perpetrators were only given a few months in prison, and all were suspended.
Desperate, Min-soo can't see a trace of the world's kindness to him, and he is completely disappointed in this society, and finally he hugs Teacher Park and dies on the railroad tracks.
Ren Hao and Xu Youzhen, carrying Minxiu's posthumous photos, cry at the court gate about minxiu's everything, but are dispersed by the police with a water gun.
The film is basically over at this point.
The evil bad guys are not punished.
Good people who are good, but also do not get a good ending.
The film reveals the darkest side of this society.
Naked and bloody.
There is not a trace of concealment.
37 days after the film's release, South Korea passed it with 207 votes and 1 abstention overwhelmingly passed the "Sexual Assault Prevention Amendment", also known as the "Melting Pot Act".
At the same time, at the joint request of millions of netizens, the case began to be retried.
In addition to the principal's death from cancer, several other teachers involved in the case were sentenced to prison terms ranging from more than a decade.
The above is the film that is called to change the country - "The Melting Pot".
Today's daily recommendation is here, thank you for watching.