Homeless Angels

The movie, made in 1941, was very impressive movie when we consider it as a 1940s Korean movie. The movie has a very moving story. A great teacher raises many homeless children by spending his own money. He changes their lives by teaching them how to earn money in legal ways and how to corporate each other. Not only that, he shows his great love to children forgiving those who try to run away and gone. A doctor, a friend of the teacher, also fights for the weak, and his behavior enables viewers to learn what is the right behavior in some kinds of situation. However, one thing that is somewhat unsatisfying is the last scene when all characters bow to the Japanese flag because all characters in the movie are Koreans. This shows how deeply Japanese government and military is infiltrated to the Korean society. The movie probably would not have been shown in the movie theatre in that time if there were no such scene. by Joon Hyung, Jo