Zhang Guang, the actor who plays the leading role in the film, found that the characters he created brought great trouble to his life after filming. His wife didn't talk to him for three days, and the children seldom came home. When you meet a stranger on the road, the other person will stare at him and make a detour, or point at him behind his back, and even someone will scold him in front of him. At Busan Film Festival, two women were scared away when they saw Zhang Guang.
This film is a sensational melting pot, and the prototype of the melting pot incident was revealed in 2005. It happened in Korea and tells the story of a private school for the deaf. The school is completely independent and is not bound by other departments. It is defined as a welfare unit by the outside world and can receive state subsidies every year. The official website of the school says, "Students work hard in the city, a school full of love and benevolence".
However, school is a different story. Dozens of people in the school, from principals to staff, have violently sexually assaulted deaf students in the school for many years. Until 2005, a teacher named Quan was falsely accused by the school of sexually assaulting students, and Quan secretly reported it to the local department concerned with physical and mental disabilities. This report makes the original appearance of Gwangju Renhe Special Education School appear in public view. The evidence records the school's aggression against the students who stayed in school in 2000, from the principal to the teacher. The victims were between the ages of 7 and 20.
In order to report successfully, all continue to collect evidence from the school. After learning about this, a lawyer got in touch with Quan, hoping to expose the truth of the whole case, bring the real murderer to justice and give the children justice. Unfortunately, the school has a deep background, and several assistants hired by teachers and lawyers who participated in the investigation were assassinated by the school one after another.
The law firm was forced to dismiss the lawyer. Before long, the lawyer was diagnosed with cancer. The lawyer did not give up and continued to fight against the three victims of the hearing-impaired school for seven years. The doctor who treated the lawyer heard about this incident and joined the protest team, hoping to restore the truth of the incident, but unfortunately it backfired.
The case was tried as scheduled, and the first instance ruled that the Korean National Human Rights Commission decided to report only six of them and only four of them were tried. The principal and the owner with serious circumstances were sentenced to five years and 65,438+00 months' imprisonment respectively, and two teachers who were sexually assaulted were sentenced to two years' imprisonment. As soon as this result came out, it caused an uproar in South Korea. In the case that most people refused to accept the penalty, the case ushered in a second-instance judgment.
The verdict of the second instance was: since the principal and the director had no bad record before and reached an agreement with the victim's family, they were sentenced to probation, and both of them were exempted from imprisonment. It is rumored that the principal bribed the victim's family with public funds, which involved not only inducement but also coercion.
Seeing this judgment, the youngest of the three children lost hope for life. Only death can free him from this unfair treatment. The boy tried to carry through the aggression against his teacher. The other two children were forcibly taken away by the orphanage.
The lawyer refused to give up and protested all the time. Finally, because of the protest, he was knocked down by the high-pressure water gun and never got up. After the lawyer left, the doctor still did not give up. He still insisted. Finally, he found that although the truth was at hand, he could do nothing but die. The helpless doctor chose to commit suicide. Before committing suicide, he left a suicide note of tens of thousands of words and wrote down all the truth. The suicide note finally appeared on the Internet, which attracted the attention of many netizens. Hearing-impaired schools began to rectify, thinking that the doctor's sacrifice was worthwhile. Two years later, disappointment came again.
In 2007, Gwangju Renhe Special Education School reopened after rectification, while the employees involved continued to work in the school. No matter how the local people protested, the school was still in operation.
In 2008, a Korean woman writer read relevant reports and personally came to Gwangju to spend many days with the victimized children, and wrote a novel "Melting Pot" based on real events. There is such a description in the article. When the defendant was given a light sentence and the interpreter announced the punishment result in sign language, the court was filled with shouts of deaf-mute students. At that moment, I seemed to hear a cry I had never heard before.
The Furnace was officially published in 2009. At this time, Kong You, an entertainment star, was doing military service in the army. He received a gift from the chief. This gift is the novel The Furnace. After reading this novel, Kong You was also shocked. After leaving the army, Kong You has been thinking about the melting pot. He and the brokerage company raised money everywhere and finally got the movie version of the furnace started smoothly. Kong You plays the leading role in the play. 20 1 1 In September, the film "The Furnace" was officially released, which caused an uproar as soon as it was released. Only two days after the film was released, more than 20,000 viewers signed online, asking relevant departments to review the old case of that year.
Due to social pressure, on the sixth day of the film's release, Gwangju police began to re-file, re-collect evidence and re-investigate. After investigation, the punishment was too light before. According to Korean law, a person who sexually assaulted a disabled person was sentenced to more than seven years in prison, and if the victim was a young child, he was sentenced to more than ten years in prison.
The previous two teachers were only sentenced to two years, which obviously could not calm the public's anger. Unfortunately, according to Korean law, the two have passed the seven-year prosecution period. Therefore, the Korean people demand to raise the sentencing standard and abolish the prosecution period. It was verified that 14 people in this case were suspected of sexual assault. At this time, the principal of the school has died, and the official will be jointly and severally liable for compensation to the victims. This survey found that the number of hearing-impaired students who were sexually assaulted increased from the last 12 to more than 30.
Due to the influence of the melting pot, South Korea has revised relevant laws and increased the sentencing of hearing-impaired people without probation. This law is named after the movie-the law of the melting pot.
Why is this film called "The Melting Furnace"? After reading it for the second time, I realized that what the author wanted to say was the melting pot of society. All kinds of people will enter the melting pot of society and become different after baptism. Many people come out of the furnace and find what they used to hate the most. Strive, persist, hesitate, struggle, give up, despair. Resistance is usually accompanied by pain. Should we persist in resisting?
As the old saying goes, "society is a big dye vat, which makes many people lose their way." Can you keep your true colors after years of baptism? As a member of society, we should understand what our goals and hopes are. We didn't come all the way to change the world, but to prevent the world from changing us.