Facing history and attacking the government is a major theme of this kind of movies, and the defenders have risen to a new height.
The prototype of the tax lawyer Song Youshuo played by Song Kanghao in Defender is Roh Moo-hyun when he was young, and Roh Moo-hyun later became the South Korean president. Director Yushuo Yang knew this story for a long time, but in order to get rid of the suspicion of flattery, he didn't start planning to make this film until after Roh Moo-hyun died.
The story of the film comes from the famous "Gulin Incident". 198 1 year, the Korean government arrested a number of college students and activists in Busan for violating the National Security Law and tortured them to extract confessions. This incident shocked the whole of South Korea, known as the "Kampot Forest Incident" in history.
At that time, Roh Moo-hyun was just an ordinary tax lawyer. With the understanding of the incident and the contact with people related to the incident, Roh Moo-hyun was deeply shocked and secretly determined to become a human rights lawyer.
The film has been artistically treated. As a tax lawyer, Song Youshuo has a heart of stone and has nothing to do with himself. But as the plot progressed, he saw all the inhuman treatment that the students encountered and began to change slowly. In the end, he became a human rights lawyer without hesitation, although thousands of people died.
Moving from one extreme to the other is one of the main reasons why this movie is so shocking.
The highlight of this film is the court scene in Song Kanghao, where a person stands on the opposite side of a group and the whole power stands behind this group. People who are angry with each other are full of emotions. Think about it. For Song Youshuo, this is a tragic behavior.
In terms of its influence on Korean films, The Defender was released on 20 13, which is the peak of Korean films in the new world. From 20 13, Korean movies went downhill slowly.
The most direct influence of The Defender on Korean movies is that many later movies, whether crime movies, action movies or family movies, like to add some plots of the black government.
At first glance, this design seems relatively novel and meets the tastes of our people. But after overuse, it has dragged down the development and innovation of Korean films.