NAYOUNG’S LIFE She suffered from depression and mental exhaustion after the attack, but made up to 70% recovery afterward. She started going to school and her father says that he has only seen drawings since 2020 to escape news and have to learn about issues related to sexual cruelty.
Telling a narrative about sexual abuse these days is often surprising thanks to the explicit methods movies use to depict such aberration. The elegance with which the subject must be treated is usually set aside to show us the act itself —and its aftermath— in a ruthless way. A resource that seeks to break us as spectators in the face of the most atrocious abuses that can be committed against a human being.
If we talk about rape of a minor, the shock level increases. Not just because of how damning it is, but also what it means to make a film that casts a child playing the role of a victim, and how that role will embrace the dignity of such a vulnerable being.
Cho Doo Soon: A case that showcases injustice and impunity in Korea
Undoubtedly, the situation of Cho Doo Soon marked a before and after in South Korea. Well, he motivated society to not only debate, but also criticize the South Korean justice system and its response to sexual crimes.
Victim identity
Nayoung or Na-young is the pseudonym of a little girl who was the victim of a rape in South Korea, her true identity was never revealed, this measure was taken to protect the little girl. What is known is that the little girl was 8 years old instantly of the case, his parents were married and his mother was 5 months pregnant.
Nayoung’s family was poor, her parents working long hours each day and even in this way they only managed to sustain the basic conditions of life.
Cho Doo Soon will premiere on December 13,
‘Hope’, a film directed by Lee Joon Ik and based on the exciting story of Nayoung, is a disturbing, unfortunate audiovisual and powerful part that portrays occasions in society that are sometimes invisible to our eyes, such as the accompaniment and the promise that can be born after a regrettable moment.
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