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The President's Last Bang(그때 그 사람들)

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Korea · 2005
1h 42m
Director Im Sang-soo
Starring Han Suk-kyu, Baek Yoon-sik, Song Jae-ho, Kim Eung-soo
Genre Comedy, History

President Park Chung-Hee, who ruled South Korea with an iron fist for nearly twenty years, was assassinated by his director of intelligence and close friend, Kim Jae-Kyu on October 26th, 1979. The film follows the events leading to and the aftermath of the successful assassination.

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60

Variety by Derek Elley

South Korean cinema finally gets its first full-blown political satire with The President's Last Bang, a virtuoso slice of sustained black humor.

75

New York Daily News by Jami Bernard

This South Korean political satire might not have historical resonance for American audiences -- it's loosely based on the 1979 assassination of dictator Park Chunghee by his own people -- but it takes the same comically dim view of governmental power and procedure as "Dr. Strangelove."

80

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

An outrageous, savagely comical account of the disastrous circumstances surrounding the assassination of dictatorial South Korean President Park Chung Hee in 1979.

83

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

Though The President's Last Bang is undeniably dense-with more than a dozen significant characters-the particulars aren't too tough to understand.

80

L.A. Weekly by Scott Foundas

This meticulously well-made picture is disarmingly funny at times - not least during the ballet of bloody absurdity that is the assassination itself - but also subdued and straight-faced, with one eye planted on 1979 and the other on the violent student demonstrations looming in the distance.

75

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Take the real-life 1979 assassination of Park Chung-hee, the despotic, hedonistic, seal-testicle-loving president of South Korea, and stage it as if the Marx Brothers were running the country, and you might get The President's Last Bang.

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