I got to know the harsh reality that South Korea had been through. It is very heartbreaking that the people had to suffer all that. With all these scenes, I get to understand and be reminded of what the movie is all about. However, we know that this is the opposite as soldiers freely shoot the protesters in broad daylight. This now becomes a trigger for the public to blame the protesters for the violence and take pity on the soldiers. We even come to a scene wherein it is falsely reported on TV that the violence has resulted in one university student and five soldiers as casualties. The people outside Gwangju are clueless about the degree of violence present in the city because any kind of news about it, whether through newspapers, radio, or television is censored. What I can gather from the movie is that the government has declared martial law in Gwangju because of the protesters led mostly by university students. ![]() It focuses more on the struggle of the main characters to let the truth about what’s happening in Gwangju, and how the government censors the news and silences the people who try to inform others about the uprising. The movie does not give away too many specific details about the uprising anyway. But, seeing that this movie had a good response in South Korea, I guess they relayed it well. I don’t have any personal knowledge about the Gwangju Uprising so I won’t go digging into whether or not they strayed away from the truth. These kinds of movies sometimes don’t really sit well with me because some either just miss the point and ruin the intention or destroy the meaning of a powerful event because of bias. I tend to view movies based on true stories or events more “ critically”, most especially films that try to tap political consciousness. The two struggled to let the rest of the country and the whole world know about the horror and violence in the city. There, they found the city under siege and witnessed the killings caused by upheavals. Clueless about what was happening in Gwangju, Man-seob drives Peter to Gwangju, where they encountered problems on the way such as roads being blocked by soldiers but they still somehow manage to make their way into the city. Man-seob and Peter’s lives entangle when Man-seob drives the latter from Seoul to Gwangju, in exchange for a 100,000 won fare. The movie revolves around Man-seob (Song Kang-ho), a taxi driver who struggles to make ends meet for his daughter, and Peter (Thomas Kretschmann), a German journalist. Set in the 1980s, the movie is based on a true story that happened during the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea. In today’s post, I’m sharing my short review of the film! This film is all about… In my search, I found a Korean film called A Taxi Driver. Sometimes I find myself searching for movies made years ago. ![]() Nowadays, it’s hard to find films worth watching that would really reel you in.
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