In recent years, with the development of the Korean film industry, many excellent Korean films have emerged, such as this year's "Busan Trip" and the previous "Suyuan". The Advocate. "Influenza". "Tunnel" and so on, are all good films worth watching. And today I'm going to talk about a movie based on the real events that happened in a school for the deaf and dumb in Gwangju, South Korea, "The Melting Pot."
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"The Melting Pot" is directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk and starring Kong Liu, Jung You-mi, Kim Hyun-so, Kim Ji-young and others. In this film, the dark side of human nature is nakedly displayed in front of people. The kind of trampling on human nature shown in the film makes people feel trembling.
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The film tells the story of Kang In-ho, a mute art teacher from Seoul, who comes to Ngashi and is recruited at the Loving School for the Deaf and Dumb. It was foggy, he accidentally crashed into a car, and while repairing, he met Yujin, 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, there are three children who attract attention: the clever Kim Yeon-doo and the gluttonous Chen Youli who always dodge. The younger brother of the national show committed suicide, and he always had 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.
The story of the film takes place in a place of "fog", as the name suggests, "fog" can hide the ugliness of human nature in an imperceptible dark place, and can also make people's goodness be erased without a trace. In this school with a dignified appearance, there is a deeply dirty behavior, and the twin brothers Li Jiangxi and Li Jiangfu, as the principal and head of the administrative office, rely on the breadth of their connections and the owners of the school's property rights, do not hesitate to carry out inhumane sexual assaults against the children of orphans and intellectually disabled people, Kim Yeon-doo and Chen Youli, and at the same time they buy off the Jiang criminal police and the school's security guards, indulge their misdeeds and atrocities, and let the young children suffer humiliation and torture. Another teacher, Park Bao-hyun, who plays for the tiger, commits a more perverted sexual assault on the poor and deaf-mute brothers and brothers, who, unable to bear such pain and torture, choose to commit suicide on the tracks.
And these people are dressed in front of others, and there is a dirty side behind them. At the end of the court session, I thought that they would be given the punishment they deserved, but with the opening of the court came the persuasion of introducing the protagonist to the work mentor, the temptation of the other defense lawyer's money, the mother's incomprehension, and the family's dilemma, although he had always insisted on his own conscience and was not melted by this "melting pot" of money and power. But none of this has brought the bad guys to justice.
Because the release of "The Melting Pot" on the "Partial Amendment of the Special Law on the Punishment of Sexual Violence Crimes" has now been officially promulgated by the Korean National Assembly, that is, the later "Melting Pot Law", this can also be regarded as a kind of comfort for the fighters who have contributed to this!
"We're fighting all the way, not to change the world, but to keep the world from changing us."