Story about The President's Last Bang / 那时侯那些人 / 那时候的人们 / 总统致命一击
A look at the life of President Park Chung-hee and the events leading up to his assassination. On Oc...
A look at the life of President Park Chung-hee and the events leading up to his assassination.
On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung Hee, who had ruled South Korea since a 1961 coup, was assassinated by Kim Jae Kyu, his director of intelligence. The film depicts the events of that night, with a coda about the fate of each conpirator. While Park dines in the Blue House with two associates and two young women, Kim carries out his plot. He talks briefly of bringing democracy; mostly he seems irritated. The other assassin seem without motive beyond following order. The killings are bloody, the aftermath equally disorderly and haphazard. Can major events of history be so mundane, so nearly comic?
