The storyline is literally heart-striking, each plot following one by one tightly just like a chain. And it sharply criticizes a political persecution, which strips the civil rights undoubtedly. However justice never came to the persecuted students and citizens, what fell on them is brutal brainwashing and physical torture.
Based on real political event initiated by Chun doo-hwan, the film vividly revealed the social condition at that moment. And the main character is adapted from the story of Roh Moo-hyun, the former president of Korea. And the main character, Song Woo-seok, was a normal person who earned his bread in the city to raise his family. He was once a brick carrier. But he picked up his motto and struggled to be a lawyer. By handling cases which were easy but high paid, he became rich, just with his senior academy. But he was involved in a political persecution just as the restaurant woman's son was arrested because of reading "banned books". Song rose his dignity, his conscience, his justice, he devoted himself to the case controlled by the military government.
Song is a great man. He is just like all of we ordinary people. He is a little greedy, a little vain, likes a drunken man at times. But when the ordinary person did extraordinary thing, he was a legend.
It is literally a "dark" movie under suppression ,full of the dark side of political conflict. But just BRAVO.
Based on real political event initiated by Chun doo-hwan, the film vividly revealed the social condition at that moment. And the main character is adapted from the story of Roh Moo-hyun, the former president of Korea. And the main character, Song Woo-seok, was a normal person who earned his bread in the city to raise his family. He was once a brick carrier. But he picked up his motto and struggled to be a lawyer. By handling cases which were easy but high paid, he became rich, just with his senior academy. But he was involved in a political persecution just as the restaurant woman's son was arrested because of reading "banned books". Song rose his dignity, his conscience, his justice, he devoted himself to the case controlled by the military government.
Song is a great man. He is just like all of we ordinary people. He is a little greedy, a little vain, likes a drunken man at times. But when the ordinary person did extraordinary thing, he was a legend.
It is literally a "dark" movie under suppression ,full of the dark side of political conflict. But just BRAVO.