The film carried on in a very calm way. It was like someone telling a story. But the story itself is very powerfully. I didn’t see much violence in the film but I can still feel violence inside it. Maybe it is what politics is.Using black and white picture is a good way to pay respect to the late “soldier” Jeon tae-il. And it’s easy for the audiences to tell the difference between now and the past. Jeon was obviously whom the director wants to praise. However, although the film has shown the life of Jeon tae-il, it didn’t show much detail about how he helped those young female tailors or how he organized the “fool organization” directly. I think it’s a smart way to let the audiences to think themselves.Interestingly, the story was not only talking about Jeon tae-il. The book writer Kim Young-su and his wife Shin Jung-sun were also relevant to politics. Especially his wife, who was a law school student, wanted to found a party, but she and other members were threatened by some “conservatives”. Again, the director didn’t show the direct difficulties they confront. Instead, he just showed us that Shi was beaten by someone, that Kim was afraid of census.The couple’s story told us that many years (maybe 5 years?) after Jeon’s death, the situation of politics was still the same. It is kind of irony.Talking about Jeon’s death, I feel a little surprised. Why he chose such an extreme way to terminate himself? The director didn’t give him any hope? The smartest point is that at the end, “Jeon” and Kim met again, with Kim’s book on Jeon’s hand. One the one hand, Jeon’s death reflected how depressed Jeon was about the situation; on the other hand, the reunion implied that there was always a hope.。

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