It is a film adapted from the novel of the same name, which is based on real events.
Kang In-ho (Kong Liu), a mute art teacher from Seoul, comes to Kiritsu and is recruited at the Loving School for the Deaf and Dumb. It rains heavily, he accidentally crashes his car, and while repairing, he meets Youzhen (Zheng Yumei), a member of the human rights organization. Jiang Renhao's wife died early, and his 8-year-old daughter Song'er was born with asthma and was taken care of by his grandmother, so he worked tirelessly to find a job to support his family.
However, the twins' principal and director of instruction forced Ren Hao to pay a bribe of 50 million won and called it the School Development Fund. At the same time, Jiang Renhao gradually found that the school was shrouded in a tense and oppressive atmosphere, which was suffocating. In particular, three children attract attention: the clever Kim Yeon-doo (Kim Hyun-so) and the gluttonous Chan Yoo-ri (Jeong In-so) who are always evasive. The younger brother of Quan Min Xiu (Baek Seung-hwan) commits suicide, and he always has bruises all over his face. After class, Ren Hao also heard shouting and crying in the women's restroom, and he did not investigate deeply under the obstruction of the doorman. Later, he accidentally witnessed the principal bribing the police, the instructor beating Minxiu, and the dormitory supervisor drowning Yandou. A shocking secret is slowly revealed, and the truth shakes the whole of Korea.
While watching "The Melting Pot", I pressed the pause several times, because in the movie, the principal did not avoid the sexual assault of the girl, which was so challenging to the audience that several times I wanted to give up watching the movie, but I still had the desire to have a good ending in the movie, but in the end the defendant was only sentenced to 6 to 8 months in prison, I really could not accept it, there was a deep sense of powerlessness. The film is very realistic, as if we are immersed in the scene, we are like bystanders, seeing the results, but powerless to change.
In fact, in reality, it is even more cruel than in the movie, the two people who rescue the children in reality are men, one is a lawyer, the other is a doctor, this lawyer was assassinated because of the protection of the rights and interests of the children, the young man who had a bright career, forced to leave the office, with three children who were violated, and later suffered from cancer, walked on this difficult road for seven years.
Later, the lawyer met the doctor, and the two fought together, but in the end, for various reasons, the perpetrators did not receive the sanctions they deserved, and the children were forcibly taken away from the orphanage. The lawyer was terminally ill, but did not give up his resistance, and was eventually knocked to the ground by a high-pressure water gun and never got up again. The doctor was desperate and finally wrote a 10,000-word suicide note. This matter spread on the Internet, only to attract the attention of society, and only then did there be novels and movies.
When the film was released, the Internet appeared and demanded that the investigation be restarted by millions of signatures, and on the sixth day of the release, the police set up a special team to re-investigate the case. In the end, the South Korean government and legislature passed the Special Amendment to the Sexual Violence Act, also known as the Melting Pot Law, which changed the law through film, which should be the highest achievement of a reality film. But justice came too late.
Not only in South Korea, but also in various countries, there may be things happening that we don't know about, which is extremely frightening. But South Korea has made it, daring to expose the dangers of society, it is worth learning, and now most of our movies and TV series are fast-food movies, and we need more in-depth movies.
We may not be able to change the world, but we can not let the world change us, pay love and sincerity, keep the original intention, face the darkness, and run to the light!