Two Endings of the Two Directors - "The Ministers of Nanshan"
Today, let's talk about the movie "The Ministers of Nanshan".
片名The Man Standing Next (2020)。
When it comes to the world's most dangerous jobs, the position of South Korean president must be on the list. Let's take a look at the ending of South Korea's successive presidents (the end?). ）：
The first president, Syngman Rhee (1948-1960). The student movement announced his resignation and subsequently went into exile.
The second president, Yin Pushan (1960-1962). Park Chung-hee staged a Military Coup d'état of May 16, forcing him into exile and being imprisoned several times by Park Chung-hee.
The third president, Park Chung-hee (1963-1979). He was shot dead by the CIA director Kim Jae-gyu during dinner.
The fourth president, Choi Gyu-ha (1979-1980). Quan Douhuan launched a military coup d'état, forcing him to go down.
The fifth president, Chun Doo-hwan (1980-1988). Sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment, he was pardoned in December of the same year and later raided.
The sixth president, Lo Tae-wook (1988-1993). Jailed for military rebellion, civil unrest, attempted murder of a superior, and bribery, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison and fined 262.8 billion won.
The seventh president, Kim Young-sam (1993-1998). Ineffective in coping with the economic crisis, he cheated and his second son was corrupt, stepped down in the face of condemnation, and was expelled.
Eighth President Kim Dae-jung (1998-2003). Election fraud, sons were jailed on suspicion of corruption, and all three sons were jailed on suspicion of accepting bribes.
The ninth president, Roh Moo-hyun (2003-2008). Secret political funds committed suicide in 2009 in Gimhae, Gyeongsangnam-do.
Tenth President Lee Myung-bak (2008-2013). He was sentenced to 15 years in the first instance and fined 13 billion won.
Eleventh President Park Jin-hye (2013-2017). In the Girlfriend's Gate incident, he was fined 18 billion won and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Twelfth President Moon Jae-in (2017-present). Internal and external difficulties, there is a great risk in the struggle with domestic chaebols.
Namsan in the title "Ministers of Namsan" refers to the fact that the CIA, a secret service agency cultivated by Park Chung-hee, is located in Namsan.
The ministers of Nanshan are the directors of the CIA. The story is the disappearance of former director Kim Kyung-wook and the assassination of Park Chung-hee by his successor, director Kim Jae-gyu.
During the epidemic in South Korea, this film has successfully become a hit. Based on the second volume of the book of the same name, "The Ministers of Namsan", published by current affairs reporters Kim Chung-sik and Lee Do-sung, the film introduces a series of secret stories that took place around the Central Intelligence Department of South Korea's intelligence agency, from the establishment of the Central Intelligence Department in 1961 to the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1980, all of which have real character archetypes, some of which are artistically crafted.
Park Geun-hye and Park Chung-hee
"The Ministers of Namsan" tells the story of many events that happened 40 days before the assassination of the third president, Park Chung-hee.
Park Chung-hee is also the father of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who is the 3rd, 5th and 9th presidents of South Korea. Born on November 14, 1917, also known as Masao Takagi, he graduated from the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School in Tokyo in 1944, overthrew the Zhang Mian regime in a coup d'état on May 16, 1961, cultivated the CIA, a secret service agency, and passed the "Resurrection Constitution" that stipulated a lifelong presidential system, and was assassinated on October 26, 1979, and ruled for 18 years.
Two months before Park Chung-hee's assassination, he wrote a pair of Chinese calligraphy to his daughter Park Geun-hye in the office of the Blue House: "The body and the name are gone, and the rivers flow forever." Park Chung-hee became the first president in South Korean history to die in office to enjoy a state funeral that lasted nine days.
Before the film's protagonist, Kim Jae-gyu, took office, park Yong-geok, the former director of the CIA, was swept out of the house.
Park Yong-gek prototyped former CIA Director Kim Kyung-wook. Park Yong-geok went to the United States to expose South Korean President Park Chung-hee's corruption to the US Congress in order to make things bigger and save his own life.
Here you can feel that after a political struggle in a sovereign country, insiders do not solve it themselves, but seek the ruling of the powerful people on the other side of the ocean. It's like a few slaves fighting, and the weaker party rushes to the master for help, praying for a fair trial.
Where is the country with the dog chain where there is any self-respect and freedom. In the film, the US ambassador threatens to say "otherwise we will withdraw our troops", which makes Kim Jae-kyu-mun sincerely afraid.
Park Chung-hee in May 16
As mentioned earlier, Park Chung-hee started with the May 16 military coup, and his right and left arms were Park Yong-gok and Kim Jae-gyu. After the success of the coup, Park Yong-gok and Kim Jae-gyu were also promoted as desired and became key figures in the center of power.
But the good times did not last long, park Chung-hee in order to maintain his dictatorship, in order to maintain his position of power, they had to do a lot of dirty and invisible things. Of course, Park Chung-hee will not say it very clearly, it will always be a sentence of "Don't you have me around, do whatever you want", everyone is happy when you are satisfied, and you can throw the pot perfectly when you do it.
In this way, Park Chung-hee cleaned up the elderly around him while cracking down on dissidents, and enjoyed the success with one stone and two eagles.
In the early years of Park Chung-hee's tenure, the economy developed rapidly, the people's living standards continued to improve, and everyone naturally supported his rule, and occasionally a few thorns with different political views did not cause much trouble.
In the second half of 1979, the Wig Company YH Trade Women Workers Cage City Incident, the New People's Party President Kim Young-sam's removal of MPs from parliament, and the Busar Incident in October broke out.
Once the economy slows, the country as a whole needs to push out a scapegoat, and the dictator who has held the presidency for 18 consecutive years is the perfect target. The president still controls the military and does not want to step down. The contradiction between reformists and conservatives has thus become increasingly large.
Kim Jae-gyu is a member of the reformist faction, who opposes the president's military repression and the president's views to the left. At the same time, the head of the guard house, Guo Sang-cheon (prototype Che Ji-che), gradually became a member of the ruling faction by kneeling in all directions to lick the president, bent on getting rid of Kim Jae-gyu.
Kim Jae-gyu constantly persuaded Park Chung-hee to abdicate, on the one hand, out of fear of a growing civil revolt and on the other hand of the liquidation of the old ministry by revolutionaries coming to power. It is better to take the initiative to abdicate and continue to make people on your side the president, so that you can avoid liquidation. Park Chung-hee doesn't think so, and looking at Kim Jae-gyu with a fool's eyes, the two sides are getting more and more divided.
In this way, the contradiction turned into a struggle between Kim Jae-gyu and Park Chung-hee and Koo Sang-cheon.
There is also an important character in the film, Jeon Doo-hyuk, as the commander of the army security, he is the actual person who holds the military power, and he is also the hidden figure who controls Park Chung-hee's secret financial transactions.
Looking at the actor's bright brain, the audience can probably guess that the prototype of Jeon Doo Hyuk is the creator of the Gwangju Massacre, Jeon Doo-hwan. His roles are small, but they are all critical, and the film implicitly expresses disdain for the insidiousness of the character.
The details of the film are excellent, and the actors' expressions and walking steps are full of highlights. Each character's every move is meaningful and closely related to context. The outstanding performance of Li Bingxian and others is worthy of the title of film emperor.
"The Ministers of Namsan" recreates the assassination of Park Chung-hee from the perspective of the director of the CIA through the experiences of the two CIA directors.
But do not evaluate historical figures according to film and television works, the tendency of "The Ministers of Namsan" is still more obvious, Kim Jae-gyu is a revolutionary who sympathizes with the democracy movement, and his assassination is also to respond to the democracy movement, which is still a bit different from the previous interpretation. In the past, Kim Jae-gyu's assassination was interpreted as Kim Jae-gyu and Guo Sang-chuan's rivalry for favor and loss of power, so they retaliated by killing Guo Sang-chuan and killed Park Chung-hee.
Kim Jae-gyu idealistically shouted to Park Chung-hee, "Don't forget your original heart." When they started a fight together, the slogan they shouted was "Eliminate all corruption and old evil, and solve the people's livelihood and sufferings that suffer from hunger." ”
Eighteen years have passed, and the dragon slayer boy of that year has already grown fangs and become a new evil dragon. The longer The Park Chung-hee dictatorship lasted, a new privileged stratum was formed, constantly infringing on the interests of the people, domestic contradictions became more acute, and democratization movements rose and fell. Does Kim Jae-gyu really not know that his faction has rotted? Of course he knew, but he still wanted to give it a go.
Kim Jae-gyu did not have a thorough plan before acting, nor did he have a follow-up plan for the successful assassination. His assassination plan was only a plan for the assassination itself, and there was a lack of in-depth thinking about the subsequent effects.
Kim Jae-gyu's behavior is more like a crime of passion, and Kim Jae-gyu is still a bit naïve compared to the coup course that the Thai Army has to study. In the 5.16 coup of that year, Park Chung-hee was immediately under military control after the coup, and Kim Jae-gyu did not have military power and dared to put the coup d'état. The immediate result was that Jeon Doo-hyuk picked peaches and sentenced himself to capital punishment, ushering in another era of military rule in South Korea.
Two endings for the two directors,
Recreate events in Korean history.
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