As a great realistic film, The Melting Pot lives up to its reputation. Looking back, let's take a look at the powerful words that have appeared in the film.
"We fought all the way, not to change the world, but to prevent us from being changed by the world." Even if the world we live in is filthy, as long as there is a clean stream in it, as long as someone pursues truth and justice persistently regardless of power, there is still hope.
This is a film based on Gong Jiyeong's novel of the same name, directed by Huang Donghe and starring Kong You. The novel Melting Pot is also a true story based on the sexual violence in a school for the deaf in Gwangju. This film is very realistic and critical, pointing directly at the dark side of society and ravaging the disadvantaged groups. It is very sad.
After the release of The Furnace, it caused great repercussions among the people. More than one million people signed online asking the government to restart the investigation of the furnace case, which further fermented into a "furnace effect". Even the South Korean National Assembly has specially passed a melting pot law for this purpose, which has strengthened the punishment for sexual assault cases of the disabled and minors, and promoted judicial reform through the popularity of a film. This sounds like a fantasy, but it has become a reality in South Korea. The audience with poor psychological endurance is bound to be influenced by it, and they can't get out of the mood of the movie for three days, and then lose confidence and hope in the reality we are in. The film did not analyze the reasons why the wicked committed such heinous crimes, but pointed the finger at the injustice of justice and the lack of legal protection for minors. Therefore, the director does not hesitate to reproduce the process of children's sexual abuse in the film in order to gain the greatest sympathy of the audience and arouse the attention of ordinary people to these vulnerable groups.