Defence Sublimates Humanity — Comment on the Korean Film “The Attorney”

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10.2991/assehr.k.210106.045How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Korean films, “The Attorney”, human nature

Abstract

“The Attorney” is a representative film in recent years in South Korea which tells the story of the hero Song Woo-seok, who is transformed from a mercenary lawyer to a democratic fighter who pleads in the name of the people, and finally starts to pursue the path of democracy and freedom. Through five thrilling court defences, the film shows the sublimation of human nature in the struggle from the “little self” who pursues nothing but making a life and get rich to the “great self” who dares to sacrifice himself to fight for people’s rights. Taking “The Attorney” as a representative, it can also be seen that there are some common characteristics of Korean films in recent years, such as revelation of the dark side of society, the hope of people in tragedy, and the protagonist’s empathetic transformation, etc.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhijing Zhu
AU  - Guicheng Zhuang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/06
TI  - Defence Sublimates Humanity — Comment on the Korean Film “The Attorney”
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 233
EP  - 237
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210106.045
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210106.045
ID  - Zhu2021
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