What an interesting backdrop! Whatever happened to these "turncoats"?
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A fascinating topic, although the title is a bit jarring for those of us schooled in European history!

Ian Buruma, the great Dutch historian, who is incidentally a specialist in East Asian culture, has written a fine book on this topic, 'Year Zero: A History of 1945' He delves deeply into the trauma and dislocation of World War II's aftermath, and the hard choices that the victors and survivors made to create functioning governments for the nations ravaged by the war and the nations created and re-created with the fall of the old empires of Japan and Europe.

Gaksital is an obvious heroic fantasy version of the Korean resistance to Japan, but a score of countries in Europe deliberately created their own legends of resistance to re-establish a national identity and a ruling elite who both knew how to run a country and had the moral credibility to lead. It sounds very much that this film is taking up Buruma's topic. Could be both entertaining and thoughtful.

Such a heavy theme for me...I need more bigger size brain to chew in. I hope this movie turns good because it's Yoo Ah In on it for heaven's sake.

crazy horse on the casting rampage. he seems to have just galloped through casting meetings and snatched all the contracts like some kind of Zorro.
now when it comes to the dilemma of history: when Estonia was occupied, very few people cooperated with the Soviet authorities. Most leaders, professors, artists, officers etc were sent to prison camps in Gulag or Vorkuta. when we re-established the independence, there wasn´t much anyone to take with competence in government. the first leaders were foreign estonians from Canada or Sweden, who had left during war or were born abroad. but there were also incompetent, greedy, ex-communist jerks who now present themselves as heroes and are still in the government. since their middle school drop out friends-businessmen, who own 99% of all profit, pay them well, they make decisions benefitting those. the system is really rotten. people born after 1994 dont understand. and people born in 1980-1984 are idealists who want a clearer system without corruption and infantile statements. our premier uses curse words and our minister of economy called someone a dick. they are not from the former glorious elite we had in the 1930ies. we had mayors who offered their house as a summer bungalo for the King of England. there were people who had airplane companies. now we have people who close schools and libraries and say football and free beer is all you need.

sorry for the rant it is just that I relate to the subject.

Sounds interesting, might have to give this a watch. Battlestar Galactica explored a similar theme for a few episodes, only when the President found out about the Secret Punishment Committee, she put a stop to it and issued a mass pardon. But not before a few people had been chucked out of the airlock, natch.

But they didn't have the same problem of not having anyone with the ability to run things, because these were mainly just regular people trying to get by in a rubbish situation, not trying to get rich, just survive.

Also, I love Yoo Ah-in. So. Very. Much.

It does sound intriguing! But has he confirmed for this role yet? I hope he did take it! Min Kyu Dong is his old friend, anyway. Fighting, YAI!