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Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.
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- 20 wins & 6 nominations
Kim Dong-gon
- Sandwich Man
- (as Dong-gon Kim)
Jung Jin-young
- Makdong's 3rd-eldest brother
- (as Jin-yeong Jeong)
Lee Mun-shik
- Thug on train
- (as Mun-shik Lee)
Son Yeong-soon
- Mother
- (as Young-Soon Son)
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Innocence will be exploited
Green Fish is not a real gangster movie, but more an illustration of the battle between good and evil, between innocence and depravity, between the righteous one and those who only believe in the law of the strongest, between the city (and all its poisons) and the countryside (with its green fish). The law of the strongest is not only a matter of physical forces (strength, number), but also of mental ones (deception, manipulation, ambush, cynicism of the individual). The film has also a socio-economic dimension: the protagonist of the movie is a young man who has been released from the army. He has no job, but is hired by the immoral leader of a gang who appreciates his courage, his sincerity and his 'morality' (his sense of justice). And the women in all that? They have no other choice but to follow the strongest, if, and only if, they are young and beautiful. As for the unborn child, there is more than serious doubt about the real father
The first film by Lee Chang-dong contains already many ingredients of his later movies: a train, spasticity, gratuitous violence or exploitation of innocence. It says a lot about the director's vision on the way of the world.
The first film by Lee Chang-dong contains already many ingredients of his later movies: a train, spasticity, gratuitous violence or exploitation of innocence. It says a lot about the director's vision on the way of the world.
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