‘’The Executioner’’ is a drama film, directed by Choi Jin-ho and written by Kim Young-ok and features excellent actors, namely, Cho Jae-hyun, Yoon Kye-sang and Cho Seong-ha. This film won the AQCC Prize (Honorable Mention) at 2010 (14th) Fantasia Film Festival. As the title of this production suggests, the plot revolves around Oh Jae-kyeong played by Yoon Kye-sang, a young joyful and humorous newly appointed guard at a prison were also convicts on death row are held. On his first day at work he meets the cold-blooded veteran guard Bae Jong-Ho and learns from first hand that prison is not a place for making jokes. Things get more stressful for all the guards when at prison arrives Chang Yong-doo (Cho Seong-ha), a merciless murderer who is sentenced to death for killing and mutilating 12 women without sign of regret. A short after the arrival of …show more content…
The whole scene is really a kick in the stomach. The mixed feelings of shock and disbelief are enhanced by the background music. Even though the apparent heavy themes and moral questions of ‘’The Executioner’’, there are various humorous scenes which are really welcomed and make the movie a little bit more light-hearted. Cho Jae-hyun and Yoon Kye-sang deliver powerful performances and present appealing and complex characters. Cho Jae-hyun does a great job as Bae Jong-ho and makes a believable character who the viewer can sympathize and understand even for his extreme actions. Screenwriter, cleverly gives us a hint of what made Cho Jae-hyun so distant from people and treates convicts as garbage. His actions come from the sense of betrayal by humans. In the past his co-worker was killed by prisoner for whom Cho Jae-hyun asked for petition. Yoon Kye-sang is really great in his role as always and does not show at all the fact he started his career as pop
Shin Dong-hyuk was born in a labor camp, more specifically known as Camp 14. In this camp, Shin was considered to be living “below the law” (3) because of his father’s brother’s crimes. In this camp, Shin went through things many people couldn’t even fathom. He survived on his own. His mother would beat him, his father ignored him, and he trusted no one. “Before he learned anything else, Shin learned to survive by snitching on all of them.” (3). In this camp, the word “family” did not exist. All of this sounds horrific to many people living outside of North Korea, but that’s just the beginning of it. His life became increasingly worse when his mother and brother made the decision to try and escape the camp. On April 5, 1996, Shins older brother, He Guen, came home. As He Guen was talking to Shin’s mother, he overheard that “his brother was in trouble a...
In George Orwell’s essay, “A Hanging,” and Michael Lake’s article, “Michael Lake Describes What The Executioner Actually Faces,” a hardened truth about capital punishment is exposed through influence drawn from both authors’ firsthand encounters with government- supported execution. After witnessing the execution of Walter James Bolton, Lake describes leaving with a lingering, “sense of loss and corruption that [he has] never quite shed” (Lake. Paragraph 16). Lake’s use of this line as a conclusion to his article solidifies the article’s tone regarding the mental turmoil that capital execution can have on those involved. Likewise, Orwell describes a disturbed state of mind present even in the moments leading up to the execution, where the thought, “oh, kill him quickly, get it over, stop that abominable noise!” crossed his mind (Orwell.
In classical Korean literature, two great literary pieces, The Tale of Ch'unhyang and The Tale of Shimchong, represent two prototypes to which modern Korean literature can be related. In the classical tale of Ch’unhyang, the important motif is none other than "encounter." Love sprouts from an encounter at the Kwanghan Pavilion in Namwon in the Southwestern Province of Cholla, between Yi Mong-nyong, son of the county magistrate, and Ch’unhyang, daughter of a retired kisaeng (a woman entertainer, similar to Japanese geisha). For them, their class...
Before Spike Lee remade Oldboy with Josh Brolin, it was a brutal story of revenge known as Oldeuboi in its native South Korea. In it, Dae-su Oh (played by a haggard, simmering Min-sik Choi) seeks revenge after being held prisoner in a mysterious room for 15 years. The film includes the infamous hallway hammer fight and concludes with an ending that’s utterly visceral and shocking. If you can stomach graphic violence, don’t miss this original production.
...s film is tense enough that you are on edge from the production company logo to the ending credits. Having been horribly desensitized to fictional violence over the years, it is refreshing to see a movie that is not afraid to invoke the natural emotion during a horror film to its most extreme. This also leads to the knowledge that not everything will come out rosy for some, if not all, of our core group.
Ha Jin’s “Saboteur” is about Mr. Chiu, a man who’s traveling home with his bride from their honeymoon. While waiting for their train, the couple has tea dumped on their feet by a police officer. Mr. Chiu confronts the police officer and gets arrested. During his time at the station, Mr. Chiu is interrogated by the chief who insists he take blame for the incident. While Mr. Chiu is being interrogated, his bride sends over Fenjin to get him out of jail. Fenjin however, is immediately captured and tortured. Initially, Mr. Chiu refuses to take responsibility for causing the incident, however after witnessing Fenjin’s torture and his own mistreatment he accepts the blame in exchange for their release. Seeking revenge for his mistreatment, Mr. Chiu
In the film “Camp 14: Total Control Zone”, directed by German filmmaker Marc Wiese, consists of narration and animation by North Korean native Shin Dong-hyuk, who was born and grew up in the Kaechon internment camp (known as "Camp 14") in North Korea. Dong-hyuk is clearly traumatized from his time in the camp, as he was born in a place where individual rights were unheard of. The rules of this torture camp consisted of bogus policies such as restricting any and all forms of contact between men and women outside of work and forced reaction that demonstrate “the deepest remorse” for honest mistakes made by inmates (0:19). The most restrictive policy stated that anyone who attempts to escape or helps anyone escape will be shot, thus many family members and “friends” ratted each other out, often with no true reason, out of fear of being reprimanded for knowing about attempted escape plans. Not only were inmates living in a constant state of fear, but the levels of sexual abuse and misconduct in camps is unimaginable, as a women and even children were often violated in front of the eyes of their fathers and brothers, yet any resistance would result in the death of the assaulted and any witnesses (0:25). Methods of torture include acts
Sex, love, depression, guilt, trust, all are topics presented in this remarkably well written and performed drama. The Flick, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Annie Baker, serves to provide a social commentary which will leave the audience deep in thought well after the curtain closes. Emporia State Universities Production of this masterpiece was a masterpiece in itself, from the stunningly genuine portrayal of the characters of Avery and Rose, to the realism found within the set, every aspect of the production was superb.
The film, Fruitvale Station, is based upon a true story of a young, unarmed African American male, Oscar, who was shot by a Caucasian BART police officer. The film displays the final twenty-fours of Oscar Grant’s lives going through his struggles, triumphs, and eager search to change his life around. There will be an analysis of the sociological aspects displayed throughout the movie that show racism, prejudice, and discrimination.
As the movie goes along further, the film introduces a Vietnamese girl Trinh that he fall in love with. Try to hook up with her, he has made friends with her brother Tuan, and teaches the English class that she was in. The movie at this point has embrace in some love comedy factors in it. Like his unique radio hosting style, he does not teach like the others but using American style and more often cuss languages. It might seem facially riotously funny, but in the deeper sense, I can not take the way that he portrayed
Shin Dong-hyuk has helped the rest of the world understand what prison life was like, for his story is haunting. He was born in a prison camp...
Their accidental meeting, when Joo Won mistakes Ra Im for actress Park Chae Rin, marks the beginning of a tense, bickering relationship, through which Joo Won tries to hide a growing attraction to Ra Im that both confuses and disturbs him. To complicate matters further, a strange sequence of events results in them swapping
Almost everyone has a favorite genre of film, but how everyone defines their favorite genre can differ greatly. Horror is one of the genres where its definition can be perceived differently by many people. Like all other genres, horror does have rules and traditions that must be included in order for a film to be considered a horror film. These rules and traditions include a protagonist, an antagonist, an escape or escape attempt of some sort, and very influential audio and visual effects.
Alex Garland’s movie, Ex Machina, seems to be another fantasy based film where humans create machines that are able to behaves as humans, but this film looks beyond behavior and into deeper concepts such as control of the mind and not just the body. A scene that displays this idea is when Caleb slashes into his arm and begins to push the blood out to ensure that he is still human and not a machine. Throughout this movie, especially in this particular scene, demonstrates main interaction with a robot, which then leads to minimal human interaction and sleepless nights. While this scene could have just been for attention or to add dramatic effect to the movie, but seeing the scene through a different perspective of other intellectual minds,
...e changed a lot since her therapy, but I'm sure you will do it and make her happy again.” he lit his cigarette on and offered me a cigarette. It was the first time that we two were smoking together but somehow it was refreshing. He told me the whole plan of Zico and how he found out about it. I controlled the anger in me but I really wanted to kill him at this moment. How could he? Such an egoist. “Yongguk. Show Mina, that you are loving her truly and that you will be always on her side.” Mr. Sung said and threw his cigarette away. He was about to go inside the building but stopped. “Work starts at 6o'clock tomorrow. Don't be late or you will be fired!” he said in a serious ton and went in.