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Clearing up the misconception that many of you seems to have

posted 11 years ago by neverremembered
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The note that is given by the terrorist group at the end to Park is NOT the same note Young-Mi wrote at the start. I'm baffled to how some of you could possibly think this as Young Mi didn't even know of Park at the start of the movie.

The note at the start orders death sentence to a completely different guy. This person (not shown in the course of the film) was sentenced to death for wrongly involving the police to kill 4 of his employees during a Worker's strike.

The note that is given to Park at the end is also a death sentence but it reads something like: The defendant Park is proven guilty of murdering the Anarchist member Cha Young-Mi, it is decided unanimously by the panel that the death sentence is carried out to the defendant Park in the name of justice.

Source: I'm Korean.

[–] alexander-korzec 11 years ago

Wow this is the answer I have been looking for for the last half hour, just made an account to say thank you!

I was like... if she put the hit out at the beginning of the movie, why didn't they just go kill him right away?

Also the note at the beginning was printed on red paper, so that wasn't making sense either.

Definitely would have been nice to have more detailed subtitles for each note so they could have been more easily distinguished.

[–] trixietrx 10 years ago

Thanks! You saved me a ton of searching! So there was a group afterall. What a hard movie to take tonight. Not the gore, the emotional aspect of it all. My heart is hurting after watching this, so much sadness, so much hurt, so many misunderstandings.

If you want to elaborate on anything else, I'm partially interested in foreign films because I learn things about the culture. Feel free to educate me on anything meaningful in the movie you think a suburban American may have missed or mis-understood.

Sorry for spelling, totally tired and this movie wiped me out.

[–] lightningcows 7 years ago

i will say that one commonality between Koreans and Americans that i did find interesting is the "girl-on-top" sexual position. Appears to be fairly universal sexual position across cultures.  Other than ET I suppose. For some reason, the aliens on the X-Files and such seem asexual. Oh, and the other commonality that seems the same across Americans and Koreans is that Koreans also have the driving wheel on the left hand side.

I would agree that it would have helped for the translations of the notes to have been more legible in the subtitles, but there was also a repeat of the voice-over by Yeong-mi Cha, the girlfriend, about the terrorist organization as the 4 men were driving away after stabbing Park. The police had concluded earlier that Cha, the girlfriend, was the only member of the leftist anarchist group, but apparently, the police didn't dig deep enough.