National Security (2012 film)

National Security Hangul 1985 RRNamyeongdong 1985 is a 2012 South Korean prison drama film based on the memoir by Kim Geuntae, a democracy activist who was kidnapped and tortured by national police inspector Lee Geunan fordays in 1985 during the Chun Doohwan regime.

September 4, 1985. Kim Jongtae Park Wonsang, 37, a prominent activist against the military dictatorship of Chun Doohwan and onetime commissioner of the Youth Federation for Democracy, is arrested and taken to a special interrogation facility in Namyeongdong, a district in the center of Seoul synonymous with political torture in the 1970s and 80s because it was the location of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency KCIA. During the first three days he is allowed no food or sleep and told to write an exhaustive essay on his life to date. On the fourth day, in order to find out why he resigned from the YFD, head interrogator Park Nameun Myung Gyenam starts water torture, and on the next day waterboarding. On the sixth day, torture specialist Lee Duhan, known as The Undertaker Lee Geungyoung, starts a deadlier form of water torture, trying to get Jongtae to admit he is a communist in league with North Korea. By the 11th day Jongtae writes whatever they want him to, but Lee says its full of inconsistencies and unusable in a court of law. The next day, after finding Jongtae tried to smuggle out a note to his wife Woo Heejin, Lee resumes a more painful version of water torture, as well as electric shocks.Many had strong reactions to the film, some even choosing to leave theaters during its screenings at the 17th Busan International Film Festival. ........

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