A Few Good Men Film Analysis

The film begins telling the story of Kwan-soo, a champion swimmer with some bad habits. Before his training starts, he goes with some friends in a village with some friends, where he spends his days playing cards and drinking. He delays coming to the training camp for eleven days, and when he finally returns, he is brutally beat by his coach, in an act that makes him resign swimming altogether. Subsequently, he calls a reporter named Young-hoon, he met during his "wild" days and asks him to write about the beating, but he declined telling him that this is how things work. A number of years later the focus is on a boy named Joon-ho, also a swimmer, who always comes fourth in the competitions, infuriating his mother. Being desperate, she turns to a coach known for his ability to make his athletes champions. This coach happens to be Kwan-soo, who has become a coach despite retaining his awful habits. Eventually the boy manages to get second position but his body is covered with bruises. Furthermore, the father of the boy turns up being Young-hoon.
This world is dominated by the pressure applied to the athletes, which, as the film suggests, does not derive only from the fans or the coaches, but also from the families. The character of Joon-ho's mother exemplifies this last fact, as Jung-ae is an individual who thinks that her son's beating is justified, if he is to win. Furthermore, Jung also presents a question similar to the one in "Whiplash," if the only way to reach the top is through extremely harsh conditions and violence. The other notion the script exemplifies is the fact that victims of violence, tend to become violent themselves, towards