How do you evaluate the Korean movie "Secret and Great"?

The movie tells the story of three North Korean spies who were sent to South Korea to work as spies when they faced their own doubts about their mission and kind-hearted villagers. The first person sent to South Korea was the human weapon Won Ryu-hwan. When the expedition was launched, instructor Kim Tae-won’s parting instructions determined the final outcome of the entire drama: “We will only meet again under two circumstances. One is When the North and the South are reunited, we will meet as brothers, and secondly, as enemies, we will deal with each other. "The day of reunification is far away, long, and even impossible. The end of meeting as enemies will come faster, and as spies. Yuan Liuhuan knew early on that he would be sacrificed in the end. His only hope was that the party could take good care of his mother, so that he would not hesitate to sacrifice his life. In the village, he performs the task of observing and collecting intelligence disguised as a fool, waiting for the party's final call to fight for the great cause of reunification. The second person sent to South Korea was Li Hailang, the illegitimate son of the general. He seemed to be happy and carefree, but he actually had a pitiful life experience. He was on a mission to become a rock singer. He looked unruly on the outside, but he was the most beautiful. An emotional one. The third person who came to Seoul as a monitor was the youngest Lee Hae-jin, disguised as a high school student, but actually came to South Korea just to follow the hero in his heart, Won Ryu-hwan. As the three gradually adapted to life in South Korea and felt the enthusiasm and simplicity of the villagers, they received the last task: suicide.

When many people watch it, they will think, what are their sacrifices like this for? Is the so-called information about sneaking into South Korea useful? In the end, why should we commit suicide when we can surrender and save our lives? When I watched it for the first time, I had the same doubts and went to the cinema to watch it again without giving up, trying to understand the characters' motivations from the changes in their mentality.

Won Ryu-hwan, a human weapon that exists like a monster, as the leader of the five-star team of North Korea's secret elite 5446 unit, is undoubtedly top-notch in terms of psychological quality and combat capabilities. Being dispatched to South Korea, for him, was not only an honorable mission, but also the only way to protect his mother. However, he was naive and did not know that his mother was imprisoned in a shelter the moment he entered the army, and when he took over By the time of the last mission, his mother had been executed, but he didn't know this. He had just been working hard to perform tasks, playing the role of the fool Dong Jiu, and collecting intelligence. In fact, as he continued to get to know the people in the village in depth, his heart changed early on. Seeing everyone gathering together happily, when he was afraid that he would change, he had already changed. That's why he later said that if he was still in this village, the people in the village would be unsafe, so even if he had to die, he would die in a place that would not threaten the villagers. And unknowingly, he became a close brother in the village. Alan would come to him to confide his past and secrets when he was drunk. Children would come to him for help when their brother disappeared. Uncles would come to him to buy flowers when they wanted to express their feelings. His son would come to him to complain and talk to him about the principles of life. All of this is based on trust between people. The belief in absolute loyalty to the party has long taken root in his heart, but this trust and warmth are actually constantly causing his past beliefs to collapse. He thought that as long as he trusted the party, the party would trust him and help him take care of his mother. His mother was the only pillar of support for him to carry out his mission. When Professor Xu Shangjiu revealed all the truth to him, his pillar of support collapsed in an instant. , lost all momentum. Everything he thought was just a lie, but the faith in his heart reminded him that he could not exchange the bloodshed of his compatriots for his own survival. Their sacrifice was to leave a name with honor rather than to be removed as a traitor. After discovering that he had been betrayed and lost the strength to support, he discovered that the amount of money in the bankbook left by his aunt continued to increase. Even though he was a fool, his aunt regarded him as his second son, and her son also regarded him as her own. Brother, and the people in the village did not dislike him at all but treated him tolerantly. He wanted to survive and return to his old life, but the only way to survive was to surrender. This method is undignified, so in the end I would rather jump than surrender. Yuan Liuhuan is a very tragic character. His mood is very complicated. He seems to have a choice, but he has no choice. Everything is doomed from the beginning, and the final choice is his only relief.

Li Hailang, who is also the team leader, has the same strong skills and speaks without concern, but secretly rescued the family members of the team members from the shelter when he entered the army. Despite his unruly appearance, he has always been cool, playing the guitar coolly, repelling the compatriots who came to execute them handsomely, and supporting Yuan Liuhuan to leave amidst the hail of bullets. Until the last moment, he said, this is how life is, come in a hurry. It’s so boring to play in this world for a while and then leave. In the end, I will be the hero. He and the chief instructor who fired the grenade jumped down and saved everyone. He would talk coquettishly about being their hot neighbor in the next life, and then seduce them and get rid of them. But at the same time, he also knew that even if a salmon goes upstream and returns home, it will inevitably die after laying eggs. He knew that in the end there was only one outcome for everyone.

Li Haizhen, although he is young, has always known the principle of survival, because this principle was taught to him by Yuan Liuhuan.

To him, Yuan Liuhuan was a character similar to an elder brother or even close to an elder brother. Yuan Liuhuan's sword had a great impact on his subsequent career. It is this belief that Yuan Liuhuan gave him that constantly desires to survive that allows him to survive in fatal missions again and again and grow into a member of the five-star team, so he will continue to want to get closer to this person who is like a man in his heart. He is the leader of the team who exists like a god, the brother who protects him with all his strength and even sacrifices his life to protect him, the person who teaches him to grow and allows him to survive. This friendship is really touching. It's just that the enthusiasm for gay love is too great, and it's impossible to tell whether this is gratitude or another inexplicable emotion. Some people also asked why Yuan Liuhuan's knife saved him. That was because the knife inserted deeper by Yuan Liuhuan would be fatal. Yuan Liuhuan used this extreme method to tell Hai The pain of being really on the verge of death made him know that if he wanted to live, he must remember this feeling, and try his best to survive in order to become the team leader. Moreover, they are both spies, although Haizhen respects Liu Huan, and Liu Huan also regards Liu Huan as the team leader. Hae-jin regards him as a younger brother, but the two people who were trained as killing machines cannot get along like brothers, so Yuan Liuhuan chose to remind Hae-jin in this way to teach him how to survive.

What chills me the most is not the final task given to them by the party, but Professor Xu Shangjiu’s experimental theory. It turns out that in the minds of some people, they are just part of the experiment, an experimental subject used to prove the theory, and after it is discovered that they are all failed experiments, they should be abandoned and killed. In fact, the professor has been using Yuan Liuhuan's loyalty and kindness from beginning to end to help him improve his theory. But a person's ideological change should not be analyzed only from the perspective of subjective consciousness. The professor felt that Won Ryu-hwan would definitely become a traitor in South Korea, but he never analyzed the objective environment. He did not see the villagers' Simple and sincere, even though he has lived in the village for sixteen years, he still selfishly hurts Yuan Liuhuan, who has always trusted him, in order to prove his theory and return home early. Similarly, the chief instructor cannot understand why they all become like this. They are obviously well-trained elites, but that is because the instructor has not put themselves in their shoes and thought about it. Ordinary love and country are the pillars of survival, and for the sake of unity And generating hatred, fear and killing will only turn them into monsters. Closed training never made them feel warm. All they faced were cold walls and cold training dolls. Yuan Liuhuan turned out to be just a component of this brainwashing factory, but due to the influence of the surrounding environment, he Just after turning from a monster back to a normal person, the other two people were gradually infected by him and the villagers. It is the conflict between these two parties that leads to the ending. The comedy at the front is completely unable to dilute the sadness at the end.

In addition, after watching the extended version, I will feel that the whole drama is much more complete. Several paragraphs in the extended version are actually missing plot twists and emotional turns. Many people ask why a South Korean police officer wants to arrest a North Korean spy. In fact, the answer is found in the extended version. The South Korean policeman used to be a member of Unit 5446. Looking at Won Ryu-hwan now, it was like seeing his younger brother, so he hoped that he would choose to surrender with his life saved. Another point in the extended version that I felt was not necessary to delete was that the supermarket lady asked the village chief to check Yuan Liuhuan’s life experience but found nothing, but the village chief found Yuan Liuhuan and said to him: No matter your past What is it, but you are a member of this village in this village. (I just remember that the original sentence is probably not there) The sudden change in Yuan Liuhuan's expression after this sentence gives people more reason to believe that the two years of living in the village and the villagers' attitude towards him have changed how much he has changed. There are not many action scenes in the extended version, so it doesn't have much impact.

Their sacrifice is great. They sacrifice their lives for glory and dignity. Those secret friendships are hidden in their hearts and have never been expressed in words, but their actions express everything, so they are secret and great. , it is the victims of these political struggles and also the awakeners. Just as Yuan Liuhuan said at the end, "In my next life, I just want to be born in an ordinary country, an ordinary family, be an ordinary person, and do ordinary things." In the world where there is no country and family hatred, there are no tasks and no conflicts. , there is no identity crisis, only peace and love in the world, there is no need to think too much, live sincerely, how nice it is.