Recently, South Korea has made another hit, just after the release of the film, it defeated the popular "Kim Ji-young born in 82" and won the box office championship.
On the first day, the number of viewers exceeded 176,000, and on the naver platform, the audience rating was as high as 9 points.
This movie is the crime action movie "One Hand of God: Ghost Hand" starring Kwon Sang-woo, Kim Hee-won, Kim Sung-jun and so on.
But the film that the director wants to talk about today is not this one, but its prequel------
One Hand of God
In 2014, "One Hand of God" was a blockbuster film work at the box office, with a total of more than 3.56 million viewers.
Its box office performance swept away the haze brought by the box office failure of films such as "Crying Man" and "High Heels" to the Korean film market, and regained the self-esteem of Korean films, "which is a signal bomb for the recovery of Korean films in the second half of 2014".
It is worth mentioning that the film "One Hand of God" combines the sport of Go and action scenes.
Based on the game of Go, it combines elements such as gangsters and actions, and the whole movie revolves around one word: revenge.
Zheng Yusheng plays a professional Go player Song Tae-seok in the film.
Originally, it was just a conscientious effort to make a living on the field, but due to bad luck, the field was not satisfactory.
Later, because of an accidental chess bet by his brother, his life completely changed dramatically.
As a result of gambling, he witnessed his brother being killed.
As the movie says:
Life is like a chessboard, taking a wrong step will lead to the road of no return.
In South Korea in this movie, the national Go atmosphere is quite strong, they use Go for recreation, gambling, and pampering, and the underground Go industry chain has developed into a huge gambling system.
It is better to say that it is playing chess than to say that it is gambling.
The dealer took control of a female Go champion as behind-the-scenes professional support, using cameras and microphones to manipulate the players on the side of the board.
By giving the cheap first and then killing the pig model hollows out one family after another.
The Song Tae-seok brothers are one of these thousands of broken families.
When Go meets gangsters, the director's game can be quite large.
In the movie, the male protagonist's brother was killed for gambling with the gangster (using the model of imitating the gangster's cheating), and the male protagonist who used the technical support behind the camera was also framed and imprisoned.
But this tragic plot is only about ten minutes before the opening of the movie.
In the later plot, it quickly entered the mode of "lying down and tasting guts + revenge".
In prison, the male protagonist not only specializes in chess, but even in the cell, he is obsessed with playing Go day and night.
Most importantly, in prison he began to learn to fight.
It can be said that the life in prison was the beginning of his rebirth.
On the day of his release from prison, he changed from the appearance of the crepe crepe before to a tough guy.
From the day he stepped out of his cell, he knew that his next task was to take revenge, even at the cost of his life.
Treating others in the way of others is the practice of the male protagonist.
How the gang let him get his head on the door, now how he returns it.
Of course, the main way to revenge in this film is to use Go to solve.
Playing chess in the ice cellar, the losing side is frozen alive in the ice storehouse.
Playing chess across the network effortlessly, so that the opponent is cut off by the opponent's boss alive.
In fact, as a Gangster-themed Korean movie, cutting the tongue is just a small scene.
There are many such bloody, violent scenes in this film, but for everyone's visual senses, the director still does not put the picture.
Let's put a picture about Go, you can feel the scale of this film.
Wise people know what it means at first glance, but they can only understand the ineffable.
So, you know how brutal the yellow gambling and poisonous side of this film is, if you don't have an intuitive feeling, you can see the people who have participated in the gambling in this film.
Not blindness.
It's a crippled hand.
You know, they were all prominent figures in the Go world.
Today, it is reduced to making a living in the waste station.
Among the various characters who come and go in the casino, in fact, there is a type of person who most attracts the attention of the factory director.
It is also the most eye-catching character in this film.
But in fact, when watching this film, he is often the most easily ignored by the public, because he is an inconspicuous supporting role.
Not even a name.
But he was well aware of his position, and all he had done in his life was to nod his head on the chess field.
Whenever he appeared, he always hunched his back, and at one point made the factory director think that he was caused by some physical defect since childhood.
However, in the later stages of the plot.
He had been hunched over his back, and suddenly straightened up.
At that moment, the whole character stood up, although there was no name, but the factory director was covered in sweat and hair.
As the line goes: the characters are positioned too accurately.
Yes, in that mixed chess field, whether it is the gang boss or his little minions, the end is extremely dismal.
If you think about it, only he, who was good at camouflaging in the crowd, survived.
As long as there were people in the place, he had bent over all his life and always had a smile on his face, and lo and behold, someone said he was stupid.
In fact, he is the smartest person in the whole film.
In this dirty society, he saw too thoroughly, so he learned to disguise.
This point, in fact, is very much like our male protagonist who is lying in prison and tasting courage, not humble and unobtrusive, and perfecting his feathers without a word.
Because he knew that one day, he would spread his wings and fly high.
In fact, this is not telling us a truth, there are people outside the people, and there is a sky outside the sky.
Sometimes don't be too high-profile, keep a low profile, and erupt at the right time, which is often the most fatal blow.
Of course, in the chess field, IQ and talent are also an important part.
Don't expect luck to keep winning.
Therefore, what the director of the factory wants to remind everyone is that small bets are pleasant, and big bets hurt the body.
Play chess, let's have fun in private, stay away from gambling, I believe, after watching the game of the chess players in the movie, you are probably afraid.
Believe it or not, fast-forward to 1:49:29.