October 4th, at a movie theater in Seoul.

Since it was Friday, there were quite a few people in the cinema. Among the crowd, Li Taiyong skillfully bought the ticket and waited to enter.

Li Taiyong, 35 years old this year, is a professional film critic. He usually pays special attention to new and popular films.

Today, he came specifically to watch the movie "International Market".

While waiting, Li Taiyong cast his eyes on the poster of "International Market" on the side.

The poster shows a family portrait, which shows members of a large family sitting around an old-fashioned TV, smiling brightly.

Because of the nature of his profession, Li Taiyong did his homework in advance and knew that this was a co-production between China and South Korea.

The screenwriter is Ye Zhiqiu, and this is another work he collaborated with SG Entertainment after "My Sassy Girl".

The director is Park Jung-hyun. There's not much to say about him. He has decent abilities and was lucky enough to have chosen the right agency. In the past two years, he has directed quite a few works under SG Entertainment.

The male protagonist in the center of the picture is a Chinese named Hwang Jung-min, and the female protagonist is a Korean actress Choi Yun-jin.

Ordinary audiences may be unfamiliar with Hwang Jung-min, but Lee Tae-yong has studied this actor specifically.

——The Chinese film emperor has starred in many popular works in recent years. In fact, Li Taiyong likes this plain-looking actor very much and thinks that his acting skills are at a textbook level.

While waiting, Li Taiyong also noticed that there were quite a few audience members who bought tickets for the "International Market" show like him.

After all, although the male lead is relatively unfamiliar, the female lead Choi Yun-jin is one of the most popular actresses in the country and still has a certain appeal.

In addition, the producer SG Entertainment obviously has high hopes for this movie and has put a lot of effort into publicity and promotion, so it is not surprising that the audience knows about it.

However, these are minor details. If a film wants to be truly successful, it still depends on its own quality.

As the time approached, Li Taiyong followed the crowd into the theater.

Not long after we sat down, the movie started.

At the beginning, the story is set in the 50s. It was snowing heavily in winter and the war broke out. Refugees flocked to the port to escape by boat. Among them, the male protagonist De Xiu and his family were also in the crowded crowd.

When De Xiu was climbing up the boat with his young sister on his back, a big hand suddenly reached up from below and pulled his sister off him.

Although De Xiu reacted and grabbed his sister's sleeve tightly, the sleeve was torn off.

His sister fell down, and De Xiu, feeling extremely guilty, wanted to go down to look for her, but was stopped by his father.

His father did not blame him. He just took off his warm coat and wrapped it around him, then held his shoulders and spoke solemnly.

"If I hadn't come back, you would be the head of the family. You would put your family first no matter what, understand?"

After saying this, the father hurriedly jumped off the boat in the opposite direction, but before he found his daughter, the ship had already started moving.

Under the boat, his father shouted at him to go to his aunt's house first. De Xiu and his mother cried heartbreakingly, and the family was separated.

There was silence in the theater. The opening scene of separation between close relatives made people feel very upset. The emotional female audience members had already begun to wipe away their tears silently.

However, this is just the beginning, the "knife" of this movie runs through the entire process.

In the plot, Dexiu's family came to his aunt's house, and his aunt opened a grocery store in the international market.

Upon learning that her brother's life or death was uncertain, the aunt shed tears silently.

In times of war, it is possible that a separation could be a farewell forever.

My aunt's family was not well off, and the only place they had available for them to live in was a warehouse.

In the warehouse, De Xiu, who was always surrounded by self-blame and guilt, remembered his father's instructions before they parted. He held his mother's hand and secretly made up his mind to support the family.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed. De Xiu has grown up and works as a porter at the dock. He gives all the money he earns to his mother to support his younger siblings in school.

He also had a dream of going to college and becoming a captain, but he had no money to pay for tuition, so this dream was destined to be out of his reach.

Fortunately, my younger brother worked hard and was admitted to the best university in Seoul, but the high tuition fees are still a problem for the family.

At this time, De Xiu stepped forward and told his brother not to worry about tuition fees.

Not long ago, a good friend told him that Europe was recruiting a large number of miners, and that they could get high salaries in just three years, but it would also be accompanied by great dangers.