Silenced

"Silenced" (Dogani in korean) is a 2011 South Korean drama film

Silenced (based on the novel The Crucible by Gong Ji-young, starring Gong Yoo and Jung Yu-mi.)

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---Honestly, I am very fascinating about korean romantic-comedy dramas and movies, it relieves my stress and depression. Especially nowadays we are experiencing this kind of crisis and being quarantine in our home. And this movie taught me about the reality of
"J U S T I C E". Sometimes there are scene that I can't even handle to watch. It boils me inside, 😡 argh! I only choose those scene (pictures) that only suitable for the readers. 

First of all, I want to share the plot summary of this movie. It is based on events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000's.

Kang In-ho is the newly appointed art teacher at Benevolence Academy, a school for hearing-impaired children in the fictional city of Mujin, North Jeolla Province. 

He has a dark past - his wife committed suicide a year ago, and his sick daughter is under the care of his mother. 

He is excited to teach his new students, yet the children are aloof and distant, trying to avoid running into him as much as possible. 

In-ho does not give up trying to show the kids that he cares. 

When the children finally open up,

 In-ho faces the shocking and ugly truth about the school and what the students have been enduring in secret:

the children are being physically and sexually abused by their teachers. 

When he decides to fight for the children's rights and expose the crimes being committed at the school, In-ho teams up with human rights activist Seo Yoo-jin, 

but he and Yoo-jin soon realize the school's principal and teachers, and even the police, 

prosecutors and churches in the community are actually trying to cover up the truth. 

In addition to using "privileges of former post", the accused do not hesitate to lie and bribe their way to get very light sentences.

Using their last night of freedom to go out partying, the Lee brothers are last seen laughing that the judge was so easy to pay off for a light sentence. 

As Park leaves the party and walks home, he bumps into Min-su along the way. 

Attempting to force the boy to come to his home to be raped once more, Park is shocked when Min-su stabs him in the side with a knife, having fallen into despair at his grandmother giving away his chance to put Park away for good. 

Park, brushing off the stabbing, smacks Min-su to the ground, where he begins viciously beating and kicking the boy, proclaiming that before he goes to prison, he's going to beat Min-su to death.

As he prepares to finish Min-su off, Park is overpowered by the boy, who flings the both off them onto a nearby railroad track.

As a coming train barrels toward them, Park begins screaming at Min-su, but, using Park's knife wound, keeps Park held down. 

Ultimately, the train runs over both the screaming Park and Min-su, the latter refusing to let the rapist get away with his acts, and they are both killed by the train. 

--- and Kang In-Ho saw the incident and it's too late for him to stop them. But he only saw the moment when Min-su looking at him like he never regret everything what he'd done. I cried on this scene so much....

---- It's so sad and very depressing about what happened to Min-su. He put the justice through his hands by killing Mr. Park cause he know that no one can help him by getting the revenge and giving him a justice of what Mr. Park did to him.---

But the Impact from this movie to the viewers was great, we openly understand of how Justice works on this movie from having a disability who fights for their own rights. Some of us didn't know about what kind of struggles and problems that they went through, just to get the justice that they wanted.

Well~

In 2011, the Korean National Assembly passed the "Dogani Law" (named after the Korean name of the film), removing any statute of limitations for sexual assault against children under 13 and the disabled. It also raised the minimum sentence for rape of young children and the disabled to up to life in prison, and abolished a clause requiring that victims prove they were "unable to resist" due to their disability.

"For the past few years, we have seen almost no South Korean films that actively examined the state of our society, the values of what is right, and what we need to do the way The Crucible does." 

Film critic Ahn Si-hwan.

-------one of my favorite scene----------

I was surprised when Kang In-ho talked about his favorite quote in here cause it's my favorite quote too   <--💜-------

Hope you enjoy, I highly recommend this movie, please share and let me know your thoughts about it. Also you can recommend me some of your favorite movies and drmas too. Just comment below or message me. Thanks!

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