Peppermint Candy, a film by Yi Ch’ang-Dong (Lee Chang-Dong) is an interesting movie that is full of dramatic events. It emphasizes the great effects of the Korean dictatorship on the society. It left a huge impact on the Korean society and history. It is a film that relates recent Korean history through the protagonist’s personal history. It tells us about the life of Korean society for the past twenty years through the adventure of a protagonist, Young-ho. Throughout this film, we can understand why the main character Young-ho, has a twisted personality and how the choice of technique can influence the story of the film. South Korea is a country that has rapidly developed. But the country also experienced military dictatorship in the 1980s …show more content…
This oppressive and manipulative system diminishes his individuality and turns him into a person who lives without any hope and love. The young, moral man turns into a brutal, violent man. He is expose to militarized masculinity as early as in the military base during the Gwangju Massacre period. Moreover, these changes happen as a result of economic changes and the military dictatorship in South Korea. The violent and turbulent events under the military dictatorship shape the life of Korean society as well as the life of Young-ho. Young-ho’s masculinity shows how military society influences his personality and his mind after he joins the army. In this movie, it is clearly emphasized how the military took control of Korea in the 1980s and 1990s, and created a militarized society that valued masculine nature. This masculine nature is clearly shown when Young-ho decides to buy a gun and plans to kill someone and takes that person with him before he kills himself. Young-ho also hires a spy to uncover Hong-ja’s affair with another man and harshly abuses her. This event clearly shows that Young-ho uses his violence in his actions. In the Gwangju Massacre scene, the upper-class soldier beats the men, including Young-ho by kicking them and assaulting them. When Young-ho works as a cop and wants to discover the name of a leading pro-democracy activist, he brutally abuses the student protesters. He does that just to get the …show more content…
At first, Sun-im and Young-ho like each other. But, their relationship gets harder and bitter as soon as Young-ho enters the military base. Sun-im sends a bucket of peppermint candy to Young-ho to remind him about his home. One night, the soldiers get a call to go to mysterious battle. Their sergeant abuses them by kicking them and calling them “bastards” and “bitches” while they are having a hard time putting on their gear. Young-ho accidentally spills the peppermint candy from his bucket. He does not have much time to pick up all the candies and the candy breaks into pieces when the soldiers step on it when they are in a hurry. It is a significant event as the peppermint candy represents the innocent world of Sun-im. But then the shattered candy represents the end of innocence in Young-ho’s life. When he is on duty, he accidentally kills an innocent school girl who wanders into the confrontation, just trying to make her way home. This scene gives a huge blow to Young-ho as it is a turning point when he completely loses his innocence. He is now a ruthless, emotionless guy. When he kills the school girl, he also kills the innocent world that he shared with Sun-im. His hands are full of blood. He no longer has the sweet hands that Sun-im admires. He cannot forgive himself. Thus, he rejects Sun-im adamantly as self-punishment. Even though he has already moved away from the innocent world, the memory of her still lives in his
Blaine Harden, former national correspondent and writer for the New York Times, delivers an agonizing and heartbreaking story of one man’s extremely conflicted life in a labor camp and an endeavor of escaping this place he grew up in. This man’s name is Shin Dong-hyuk. Together, Blaine Harden and Shin Dong-hyuk tell us the story of this man’s imprisonment and escape into South Korea and eventually, the United States, from North Korea. This biography that takes place from 1982-2011, reports to its readers on what is really going on in “one of the world’s darkest nations” (back cover of the book), that is run under a communist state and totalitarian dictatorship that was lead by Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and currently lead by Kim-Jong un. In Escape from Camp 14, Shin shows us the adaptation of his life and how one man can truly evolve from an animal, into a real human being.
A young boy gets older and even though they struggle financially his parents make sure they teach him the honest values of life. But in this film George Jung is a high school football star and wants to see other options and forget what values his parents have taught him. The young man from a small place gets millions from distributing cocaine and ends up losing it all. The behaviors of George Jung become intense with curiosity as he arrives in California to attend college with his friend Tuna.
This film tries to show that these young people are under influents of American movies and culture. They don’t really obey their parents, because they’re blaming their parents for anything that happened during the world wars. But at the same time the movie doesn’t try to blame everything on them. It wants to show that with pushing the young kid too far, nothing is going to get fix.
The deeply rooted history of a Confucian paradigm in Korea has for long limited women’s roles and rights. In the male-dominated and patriarchal society, women’s roles remained in the domestic sphere, where they were required to be submissive. However, with the introduction of westernization and modernity in the 1920s, modern generation was rapidly incorporated into colonial modernity. Korean women began to “redefine the Korean female identity” by displaying the “new woman” characteristics, in which some literate women initiated to “enhance their education, determine their own physical appearance, and contribute to the debate about changing gender roles and expectations”(Yoo, p.59) Fearing the threat of the emergence of the “new women” with the potential disturbance to the hegemony, Japanese colonial authorities as well as nationalist reformers veered the direction where the new ideologies of womanhood with modern sensibilities, also contained them within traditional gender boundaries, such as in education and social spheres(Yoo, 60). Park Kyung Won, the main female character in the film Blue Swallow, also lived during this era of the “new women” as well as restrictions under the Japanese colonial rule. In the film Blue Swallow, while her father encouraged her to stay at home for her to fit into the role of the traditional women, Park works as a taxi driver and eventually studies abroad to attend Tachikawa Flight academy, where she becomes the first civilian Korean female pilot. She displays the “new women” image, in which like the other “new women”, she does not conform to the traditional norms of a woman and strives in redefining the Korean female identity. However, her engagement in male-dominated education and profession, “ma...
There is a major change in the men in this novel. At first, they are excited to join the army in order to help their country. After they see the truth about war, they learn very important assets of life such as death, destruction, and suffering. These emotions are learned in places like training camp, battles, and hospitals. All the men, dead or alive, obtained knowledge on how to deal with death, which is very important to one’s life.
This book shows that in highly emotional situations you react before thinking. Two soldiers named Strunk and Jensen got into a fight. Strunk stole Jensen’s jackknife. When Jensen found out, he retaliated by breaking Strunk’s nose. This shows that people don 't always think and just react to situations. Also there is irony in this. They both are fighting on the same team in this war, but yet are fighting each other.
Why would anyone feel the need to write an entire book on such a mundane topic such as sugar? Look around at some food products you might have and you will realize that many if not all of them contain sugar in some form or another. For example, a can of soda, which most people drink everyday, contains (depending on the brand) approximately 40 grams of sugars. Look further and you might find that even things such as cheese or chips or soup contain several grams of sugar in them. The wide diversification of products that contain sugar just goes to show you how widespread the use of sugar really is. This fact alone could be enough to convince someone to create a book solely about sugar. One passage that Mintz quotes on page 15 that really seems to capture our (Westerners) infatuation with sugar, and a strong reason the book at hand is as follows:
War slowly begins to strip away the ideals these boy-men once cherished. Their respect for authority is torn away by their disillusionment with their schoolteacher, Kantorek who pushed them to join. This is followed by their brief encounter with Corporal Himmelstoss at boot camp. The contemptible tactics that their superior officer Himmelstoss perpetrates in the name of discipline finally shatters their respect for authority. As the boys, fresh from boot camp, march toward the front for the first time, each one looks over his shoulder at the departing transport truck. They realize that they have now cast aside their lives as schoolboys and they feel the numbing reality of their uncertain futures.
The “Man I Killed” takes us into the Vietnam War and tell us about a soldiers first time of killing another individual. The author describes a Viet Cong soldier that he has killed, using vivid, physical detail with clear descriptions of the dead mans’ fatal wounds. O'Brien envisions the biography of this man and envisions the individual history of the dead Vietnamese soldier starting with his birthplace moving through his life, and finished with him enrolling in the Vietnamese Army. O'Brien also describes some of the dead soldiers’ hopes and dreams. The author uses this history in an attempt to make the dead man more realistic to the reader
Japan was imperializing late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. Korea was a Japanese colony. After World War II, the Japanese had to get rid of the colony. North Korea became a Communist. South Korea wants to be democratic.
The inquiry science lesson that was chosen was Candy Heart Science Observations. Students were asked to determine if candy hearts will sink or float. Students were also asked to
The story is set in the 1920ies in what has been termed The Jazz Age in which individualism was on the rise. The time period was also characterised by a post-war emptiness and cynicism. As such, the story deals with loss of meaningful life, with the sterility and vacuity of the modern world and with the crucial necessity of taking responsibility for the quality of one's own life (Yanling, p 108). The nature of the story’s dialogue tangibly represents the above mentioned time period emptiness and
Mitgang tells us that the novel is about the life of two children who live in a small town, where they deal with racism in society. Prejudice surrounds their childhood, and it lurks with them while they are playing, and even while they are in the classroom. Mitgang tells us that on top of all this, racism is conveyed in the children?s language.
It is successful both in the domestic market, and internationally. This essay sets out to understand this phenomenon. First, it attempts to trace South Korean cinema’s comeback story. I feel a need to do this because I find that so many of my South Korean friends and colleagues are reluctant to admit this, or focus solely on the problems the industry is facing in the future. There may be worries about the future, and there may be “ifs” and “buts” about the present state of the South Korean film industry.
Meta: Candy is the theme of the moment within the world of slots, with Mobilots jumping on the trend with its latest release. Promising to deliver a taste worth savouring, is this game as sugary sweet as it proclaims?