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Review:

In the movie , hero Lee Ja-seong became fifth-in-command in gangster with his secret, which he is a policeman. The reason why police did it is could not be controlled mobster. The mob, who have managed bar or sell drug, are becoming progressively commercialized and legalize. These point is not fiction. Anyway, mob boss killed and mob need next boss. Candidate are organizer’s second-in-command Lee Jong-gu(Park Seong-Woong) and Jeong Cheong(Hwang Jeong-min), who guessed actually next boss. By the way police try to interfere boss election of mob. Lee Ja-seong is obliged to stand in mob by his superior Kang’s order, which he should stakeout until a new mob boss is elected. While his life is being threatened, his wife is near the end of her pregnancy, and he is surrounded by enemies on all sides. Hero Lee Ja-seong was suffering for situation, which he should betray his boss Jeong Cheong no matter how Jeong Cheong was gang. All of those unfolded just as Head of a section Kang’s scenario. However, Lee Ja-seong was perplexing about which police is booming unexpected person for next boss.

The movie is nice despite some of the violent scenes. Especially, the movie good as mob movie go. There are many mob movies including a film for lowbrows in Korea, and those movies are very interesting without reference to the level of works. If foreigners watch those movies, they might think that there lived many mobster and they was prancing around street. That is not true. I never actually saw mobster, despite I lived in Korea for closed to forty years.

The mob comedy has been a commercial success such as <The Wife is the Gang Leader>or <Marrying the Mafia> in Korea. So these movies have been a popular series. On the contrary, there are several serious movies except these comedies at the same time. That is just noir. There are some movies such as <NO.3>, <Green Fish>, <Friend>, <The Spirit of Jeet Keun Do – Once upon a Time in High School>, <A Dirty Carnival>, <The Show Must Go On>, <Bloody Tie>, <My Brother>, <The City of Violence>. Strictly speaking, there are exist non noir of these. Non noir movie may be summarized as follows <Friend>, < The Spirit of Jeet Keun Do – Once upon a Time in High School>, <My Brother>, <The City of Violence>. In the case of <My Brother>, the movie is nearly drama genre, and <The City of Violence> seem to be action genre. In the case of <Friend> and <The Spirit of Jeet Keun Do – Once upon a Time in High School>, these movie can be called just general mob movie. In the case of <NO.3> is much vaguer. I don’t want to say to these movies “You are not noir”, but it can’t be helped.

In summary, there are two kinds of the mob movie. The former is just general mob movie such as <The Wife is the Gang Leader>, <Marrying the Mafia>, <Hi, Dharma!>, <Friend>, < The Spirit of Jeet Keun Do – Once upon a Time in High School>. And the latter is what can be called ‘noir’. There are <A Dirty Carnival>, <The Show Must Go On>, <Bloody Tie> as a real noir. And the movie ‘New World’ belong to the second class. I judged between general mob movie and noir by standard whether or not the movie glorifies violence . After the movie like ‘Friend’ , a man’s world look great. In addition, it looks gorgeous that they can use their fists. And the mob is not all that mean. On the contrary, the movie classified as ‘noir’ is a little different. The mob and their violence don’t look nice and they are not graceful any more.

After the movie <New World>, that will be clear. That dirty fight has little appeal for me who like martial arts movie. In practice, I don’t know how to fight the mob. However, mob fought at least with iron pipe. By the way, the movie <New World> ’s all the fight scene, which show sashimi knife, is unusual. Meanwhile, there was not much fighting, which exterminate opponent. The mob mobilized all kinds of cowardice actions, such as what group of people hit one people, what use hidden weapon, what attack demilitarized opponent with a weapon, what unannounced raid, etc. It is inferior method which not even used in evil forces(邪派). Besides, mini-boss Jeong Cheong killed opponent with a thrust of the sashimi knife for himself. Nice mob is nowhere anymore.

This is why the movie well crafted. Again, the movie in no way glorifies violence. And the movie was excellent because the movie did not approach the dichotomy of good and evil.

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