The film "Ministers of Namsan" was released in South Korea on January 22, 2020, and from the moment of release, it won the korean film box office championship for a week in a row, and the script was adapted from the famous Korean author Kim Chung-sik's "The Ministers of Namsan", which is an official documentary novel about the murder of former South Korean President Lim Chung-hee in 1979.
The film has a strong cast, director Yu Min-ho, the winner of the 2016 Korean Film Awards Blue Dragon Award, has directed the film "Insider" and became famous, the film starred by South Korean actors Lee Byung-hyun, Lee Seung-min, Guo Duyuan and Lee Hee-joon, and the wonderful performance was recognized by the audience.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > adapted from the real history of the shooting of a South Korean president</h1>
The story of "The Ministers of Namsan" takes place on October 26, 1979, when former President Lim Chung-hee and his personal head of the guard house are attending a cocktail party at the official residence of the Central Intelligence Department in Miyai-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, where, with several crisp and rapid gunshots, cutting through the silent night sky, Kim Jae-gyu's pistol smoke, and Lin Chung-hee and his men fell in a pool of blood.
That night, Lin Zhengxi was shot several times and pronounced dead on the spot, and the gunman Kim Jae-gyu was not an ordinary killer, he was Lin Zhengxi's close subordinate, so why would a loyal subordinate kill his superiors who appreciated him? The suspects were rife, and the gun killed by Lin Chung-hee was the biological father of former President Park Geun-hye.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > vying for power and profit, Kim Jae-gyu is in power, but he is dissatisfied</h1>
As we all know, South Korea's intelligence minister is a powerful but very dangerous job, almost none of the ministers have a good ending, the risk factor is surprisingly high, the gunman Kim Jae-gyu is the chief of the Chinese Intelligence Department and a close comrade-in-arms of the president, the new official took office three fires, his first plan is to eliminate the old minister who fled to the United States.
Minister Jin is deeply trusted by the president and has a high position of authority, but in the eyes of the storm of power, it is natural to deceive me and cheat, and it is natural to fight with each other, and in the face of the stubborn presidential guard chief, he is also full of complaints and anger, and wants to get rid of it quickly, especially when the director of the room drove the chariot to the city, Minister Jin was angry and angry, laying the groundwork for the gunman.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > political turmoil, cronies fled, and an assassination set off a bloody storm</h1>
The main line of the story revolves around the assassination process of Kim Kyung-wook, the former fourth minister of the Central Intelligence Department, who fled to the United States, and it is not simple to mention Kim Kyung-wook, who was once the hero of Lin Zhengxi's military coup, and did the intelligence work of the Intelligence Department into a mysterious and peak, and was also a confidant of Lin Zhengxi' great trust, which was immeasurable for a time.
There is no eternal enemy, there is no eternal friend, with Kim Kyung-wook step by step out of favor, he foresaw that the crisis is coming, the catastrophe is coming, so he secretly fled to the United States, ready to rely on the secret information about the president in his hand, to the US Congress to report Lin Zhengxi, Lin Zhengxi as if he was facing a great enemy, secretly killing, sending killers to assassinate him, destroy the body.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="16" > contradictions have intensified, and the intelligence department and the guardhouse are intolerable</h1>
South Korea's Central Intelligence Minister Kim Jae-gyu, the president of the guard room Che Ji-che, both are close confidants of President Lin Chung-hee, in order to compete for the rights of the "number two person", the contradictions are becoming more and more intense, Cha Ji-che, with the identity of the president's guard chief, began to frequently interfere in military affairs, expand the scope of power, and constantly slander Kim Jae-gyu in front of Lin Zhengxi.
As a result, the two formed a beam, do not wear the sky together, Kim Jae-gyu believes that Cha Ji-che is a typical "villain interfering in politics", from dissatisfaction, to the surge of killing machines, coupled with the Americans behind his back constantly instigating and supporting him, Kim Jae-gyu brewed a crazy plan in his heart, and finally broke out the "Miyai-dong Incident", shooting the president.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > defeated, the murderers could not escape the doom, and the political situation was turbulent</h1>
After a bit of staggering at the banquet, the crowd was slightly drunk, accompanied by a fierce quarrel in the room, a fierce gunshot sounded, Kim Jae-gyu carried out this crazy plan, vented the long-suppressed anger in his heart, everything went very smoothly, but in the end, because Minister Kim listened to the temptation of the chief of staff, fled to the army headquarters, was successfully captured, and was later sentenced to hanging.
Mantis cicada catching, yellow bird in the back, no one is the eternal victor, the film after the successful assassination, gives Minister Jin a close-up of the facial expression, as if a person who has just woken up from a nightmare, a moment of vulnerability, helplessness, regret intertwined, accompanied by the president's "I'm okay", the curtain ended, became his epitaph.
Daily movie review summary
The film won numerous award nominations in 2020, causing a huge sensation, revealing the bloody history of South Korea, around two main lines, the cast is strong, two major tasks throughout the text, the CIA Director Kim Jae-gyu is played by Lee Byung-hyun, who is known as "the most perfect man in Korea", and Lee Sung-min, who plays the president, is also award-winning.
"The Ministers of Namsan" is a serious political thriller, in which we can not only enjoy the actors' implicit performances, as well as a variety of carefully polished subtle expressions, which perfectly presents the aura and status of The big men in the Korean political arena, which can be described as domineering side leaks and thrilling.