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Originally titled Dogani, this 2011 Film of the Book (the 2009 Korean novel titled The Crucible) is based on the true story of the litany of physical and sexual abuses committed against the pupils of a Gwangju school for the deaf and hard-of-hearing between 2000 and 2005. The film drew millions of viewers and sparked national outrage in South Korea, resulting in the introduction of tougher legislation to deal with sex crimes.Kang In-ho (Gong Yoo) is a newly arrived art teacher at the Benevolence Academy for deaf children in the city of Mujin. He quickly notices something is amiss at his new workplace. He is casually ordered to pay a bribe to receive his post (in front of a complacent local Police Inspector Jang), and most worrying of all, the children he is assigned to teach are withdrawn, fearful, and frequently sport cuts and bruises. When he eventually gains the trust of eight-year-old Jin Yu-ri, she leads him to horrific sight - that of caretaker Yoon Ja-ae savagely beating eleven-year-old orphan Kim Yeon-doo, and when he alerts human rights campaigner Seo Yu-jin, the two quickly discover the extent of physical and sexual abuses committed against the children by their educators. They then proceed to collect testimonials from Yu-ri, Yeon-doo, and a third student, thirteen-year-old Min-su, in order to bring the abusers to justice, but find themselves blocked at every turn by Jang, foot-dragging bureaucrats, and Headmaster Lee's Christian congregation.The film was released under the title Silenced in the English-speaking world. Not to be confused with The Crucible, the theater play.
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Heroes Love Dogs
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Heroes Love Dogs: Yu-jin has an adorable little puppy, of which Yeon-doo and Minsu can be seen playing with at one point.
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Papa Wolf
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Papa Wolf: This is In-ho's reason for going against the school system when they turn a blind eye to the abuse of the children there, him citing this almost specifically, as mentioned above.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: Essentially, South Korea, according to the film. Routine violence against children in schools, a less-than-accommodating attitude towards the disabled (to put it mildly), institutionalized corruption and a soft approach to sexual abuse are placed on display with no punches pulled.
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All Gays Are Pedophiles
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All Gays Are Pedophiles: All of Park’s victims are male children. He’s also the only explicitly gay character in the film.
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Within the first 20 minutes of the film, we see Park Bo-hyeon beating his student Min-su with his fists and feet, and the caretaker, Yoon Ja-ae, shoving Yeon-doo head-first into a washing machine for being out of bed at night. And it gets worse.
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Raised by Grandparents
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Raised by Grandparents: Min-su has a Missing Mom and a severely mentally disabled father, and so is cared for by his grandmother. In-ho's daughter also counts, as she has been raised by In-ho's mother due to her father being busy and away from home.
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Parental Abandonment
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Parental Abandonment: Min-su's mother's whereabouts are unknown, according to the school database, and considering the mental state of his father, it's implied she has abandoned them both. Also implied in the case of Yu-ri, as her parents are never mentioned onscreen and she is fostered at the end of the film.
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Sadist Teacher
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Sadist Teacher: In-ho is pretty much the only non-abusive teacher shown onscreen.
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Bring My Brown Pants
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Bring My Brown Pants: Yu-ri wets herself after giving her testimony in court, the emotional weight from recollecting the traumatic abuse she endured being too much to bear.
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Villainous Incest
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Villainous Incest: Yun and the headmaster, albeit Not Blood Siblings.
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Tomboyish Ponytail
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Tomboyish Ponytail: Yu-jin's hairstyle of choice during most of the movie, which suits her demeanour.
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Cold-Blooded Torture
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Cold-Blooded Torture: Yoon's dispassionate violence against Yeon-doo (dunking her head into a washing machine on a spin-cycle), which results in the latter being hospitalised, definitely counts.
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Would Hurt a Child
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Would Hurt a Child: A disabled child at that.
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Break the Cutie
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Break the Cutie: They come pre-broken, as In-ho quickly discovers.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: The school settles out of court with the families of Min-Su and Yu-ri, meaning that Yeon-doo's case is the only one that goes to trial. The Lees and Park get off with only a year of jail time each, and it's later revealed that the Lees' attorney bribed the prosecuting attorney with a prestigious position at his firm to throw the case. An enraged Min-Su attempts to kill Park, but during their fight both are run over by a train, and the ensuing demonstration by disabled activists at Min-Su's funeral turns into a horrific display of Police Brutality. The one silver lining is that Yeon-doo and Yu-ri are placed with supportive foster families by the end of the film.
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Forced to Watch
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Forced to Watch: In a flashback, Park is shown raping Min-su's little brother as he watches helplessly from the other side of a locked door. Park subsequently rapes Min-su as well.
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Big Eater
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Big Eater: Yu-ri is known for having a ravenous appetite.
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Troubled Fetal Position
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Troubled Fetal Position: Yu-ri jams herself into a corner in this fashion when In-ho comes into her room, assuming he's trying to molest her.
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Pragmatic Adaptation
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Pragmatic Adaptation: The film actually tones down much of the abuse as portrayed in the book.
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Orphan's Ordeal
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Orphan's Ordeal: Yeon-doo receives a lion's share of beatings and rapes, to the point that she is eventually hospitalised. As an orphan, she is particularly defenceless against this treatment. Truth in Television, as child abusers are notoriously good at picking out vulnerable victims.
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Hair-Trigger Temper
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Hair-Trigger Temper: Yu-jin, though given her line of work, she usually has a very good reason. Usually.
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Pedophile Priest
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Pedophile Priest: Headmaster Lee Gang-bok, who has repeatedly raped both Yu-ri and Yeon-doo, is the Presbyterian equivalent - an elder.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: Young-soo, in an example of Death of a Child. In the first scene of the film. His older brother Min-soo also kills himself and their abuser, after the latter walks out of court with a slap on the wrist.
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Politically Incorrect Villain
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Park and the Lee twins, who routinely ridicule the deaf children in their care, and claim their physical disabilities cause them to be "mentally deficient" or "not like normal people".
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Verbed Title
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Verbed Title: Referring to blackmail and threats used to silence people.
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Villain with Good Publicity
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Villain with Good Publicity: The Lee twins are respected members of the Christian community, the sons of the founder of the Benevolence Academy, (originally a charitable endeavour on the part of the elder Lee), and play up their reputations as benefactors of the poor, disabled children. It works, God dammit!
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: Park Bo-Hyun.
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The Speechless
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The Speechless: Being deaf, the schoolchildren, in more ways than one.
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Faux Affably Evil
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Faux Affably Evil: Headmaster Lee in particular. He conducts himself with all the courtesy and deportment one would expect of a respected church elder - and several minutes into his first scene, demands a bribe from In-ho before he'll employ him.
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Boarding School of Horrors
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Boarding School of Horrors
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Depraved Homosexual: Park Bo-Hyun exclusively targets little boys.
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Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
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Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Yun Ja-ae, who tortures students for disobedience and, quite frankly, looks like she's been dead for five years.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: All except one. The movie itself changed that - the film sparked greater awareness and outrage among the public, resulting in the investigation being re-opened, and new, stricter laws against child abuse being put into place.
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Harmful to Minors
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Harmful to Minors: Yeon-doo, Yu-Ri, Min-Su and his little brother are all violently raped and molested throughout the course of the film.
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I Have You Now, My Pretty
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I Have You Now, My Pretty: That scene between Headmaster Lee and Yeon-doo. You know the one.
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Evil Gloating
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Evil Gloating: The school staff, frequently. Most notably Ja-ae bragging to Yu-jin that she got Min-Su and Yu-Ri's families to settle out of court.
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Siblings in Crime
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Siblings in Crime: The Lee twins. And, by adoption, Yun Ja-ae.
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Rage Breaking Point
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Rage-Breaking Point: Two for In-ho: After witnessing Park beating Min-Su once again, In-Ho loses it and beats him over the head with a flower vase. Later, when Headmaster Lee's lawyer makes a vague threat towards his daughter, In-ho takes out his anger by repeatedly punching one of the windows on his car until it finally breaks, all while uttering a cry of pure anguish.
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Taking You with Me
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Taking You with Me: After the perpetrators walk free, Min-su kills himself and his rapist by throwing them both onto the train tracks where his younger brother killed himself to escape Park's abuse.
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Broken Bird
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Broken Bird: Min-su is the closest example, having become cynical and by turns defiant and passive since the suicide of his little brother.
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Horrifically, the beatings of the children occasionally take place in the crowded faculty room, where no one raises any objections, or raises their head from their work. They're that accustomed to the casual brutality.
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Disabled Means Helpless
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Disabled Means Helpless: This trope is played rather cruelly in the case of the schoolchildren, as, for the most part, they are deaf and, presumably, mute so, they can't really communicate too well what is wrong, along with the fact that the perpetrators take advantage of this.
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Red and Black and Evil All Over
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Red and Black and Evil All Over: Ja-ae's first scene has her dressed in red and black . . . and torturing Yeon-doo.
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Calling the Old Man Out
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Calling the Old Man Out: In-ho's mother objects to him "stirring up trouble", as she calls it, and when she admonishes him during the trial for looking after deaf orphans in place of his own child, he replies that he wouldn't be fit to call himself a father if he abandoned children who needed his help. He then leads Yeon-doo by the hand into the courtroom.
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Not Blood Siblings
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Not Blood Siblings: The caretaker, Ja-ae, is the headmaster's adoptive sister. And his lover.
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Dirty Cop
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Dirty Cop: Inspector Jang is quite happy to allow Headmaster Lee to extort money from his new employee in front of him. Which actually seems downright benevolent once we learn that he is also fully aware of the goings-on at the school.
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Anger Born of Worry
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Anger Born of Worry: The normally easy-going In-ho flies into an panic-fuelled temper when he spots Yu-ri perched perilously on her third-floor bedroom window-ledge. Unfortunately he frightens the life out of her when he pulls her back into the room.
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Creepy Twins
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Creepy Twins: Headmaster Lee Gang-bok and assistant headmaster Lee Gang-seok, both of whom inflict horrific sexual abuse on female students.
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Dark and Troubled Past
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Dark and Troubled Past: On top of the routine physical and sexual abuse inflicted upon them by their teachers, Yeon-doo is an orphan and Min-su's parents are absent. Also, as we eventually learn, Kang In-ho himself, whose wife committed suicide a year before the events of the film.
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