MOVIE 'Jiseul'

A month ago, a meaningful movie was released. Its title, ‘Jiseul - Requiem for the dead and the living’, is composed of Jeju dialect. Jiseul means potato in Jeju dialect. Jiseul deals with Jeju 4.3 Affair. 4.3 Affair was the public resistance happened in Jeju from 1428/4/3 to 1954/9/21. This movie focused on sacrifice of innocent people irrelevant to any ideology or politics. Jiseul is made up of four chapters related to ancestral rites. It means the ancestral rite for the innocent victims.  The movie doesn’t have any well-known actor or actress. Because of unknown casts, I can feel as if they are really local residents. A conflict between residents and government started with incident that the child got kicked by horse set a police on. However police totally disregard this accident. So residents protest against the government. The affair became serious coincided with other political events. Jeju residents flee to a cave and all they had for foodstuffs in potato. In the dark cave, refugee supported themselves full of anxiety. The movie implies that Jeju 4.3 Affair was a tragedy. After the end of the movie, audiences’ hearts ache with sympathy for the innocent people. Still now, many people don’t know in detail about Jeju 4.3 Affair but I want more people realize the truth of the affair.