Uprising movie 2024 (Review)

Uprising movie 2024

In the Joseon Dynasty, two friends who grew up together — one the master and one the servant — reunite post-war as enemies on opposing sides.

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in the aftermath of this; in a marketplace festooned with the severed heads of these “traitors”, a runaway slave is captured and presented to the authorities.

Cheon-yeong (Gang Don-won) was not born into slavery but, thanks to the bureaucracy of the day, was taken as chattel as a child, after his mother was effectively sold to pay a family debt.

Working for the Deputy Minister of Defence in his mansion, Cheon-yeong’s “job” is literally to be a whipping boy for the master’s son, Jong Ryeo (Park Jeong-min). Unexpectedly, and against the master’s express wishes, the two boys become friends (“What compelled you to treat a slave like an equal?” barks the rich boy’s father).

Something that comes up almost as an aside in this handsomely mounted period piece, co-written and produced by Korean auteur Park Chan-wook, is the astonishing detail that, in the 16th century, invading Japanese soldiers would saw off their victims’ noses as trophies of war.

So prolific were these ad hoc amputations that there’s a shrine of sorts in Japan — the Mimizuka monument in Kyoto, Tokyo — that holds the noses of nearly 40,000 Koreans killed during that time, not to mention some 30,000 similar “souvenirs” from China.




But, surprisingly, Kim Sang-man’s drama doesn’t play that card.

This isn’t a story of Korea falling victim to outside aggressors, although that is a significant part of the drama.

Instead, it’s a film about the enemy within, something the Koreans would know quite a lot about — most recently with corrupt president Park Geun-hye, whose secret 60-page document blacklisting Park and other significant artists was made public after her impeachment in 2016.

One could also see its moral — live and let live — as a reaction to the infamously judgmental nature of Korean society, something that has claimed the lives of many public figures lately.