Korean Independence Movement vs. The Good The Bad The Weird

I briefly discussed with Professor Cho today the position the film takes in terms of the Korean Independence Movement. In one of the earlier scenes it seemed to make light of the movement. An independence member briefly appears on camera on the train in front of Yoon and is quickly apprehended by officers. Yoon does not acknowledge the party member and the disruption is quickly forgotten in the memories of the viewer. The party member hardly had a chance to show the flag. The independence movement is a subplot in the movie that does not particularly drive or motivate the characters' actions, even in the case of Dowon who simply goes after the movement's target for the money involved. I thought that this was an interesting point brought up by Mark Ward in his lecture regarding Imperial Sovereignty & Colonial Violence. The peace preservation law suppressed burgeoning anti-colonial movements in Korea. People of the colony were apprehended for thought crimes and according to the numbers presented (I unfortunately did not think to write them down) there was a large number of people who the Japanese believed needed to be rehabilitated in order to have a more pro-Japanese or pro-colonial mindset. If there were a significant amount of people against the occupation and they did leave the country and emigrate to, for example, Manchuria, one could postulate that there is q loss of national identity that could lead to an increase in independence movement party members in ord I unfortunately r to regain the national identity. However, like I mentioned previously, the three main characters lost their sense of national identity upon moving to Korea, they felt no attachment to a land that wad taken away from them. Choe presents the independence movement as q means of survival, not just against the Japanese but also the conditions in which he found himself. He writes, "But the world had betrayed us. It has not respected our good faith. We have been insulted, scorned, and abused. We have been living an illusion up till now. I hadn't realized that the world not only permits but condones the tyrannical, the deceitful, and the wicked." (122). Instead of being q victim of colonization, the three main characters become the perpetrators of violence, almost equivalent to the violence of the Japanese, rather than subservient. In this process, The Good, The Bad and The Weird achieve a success of sorts beyond that of the independence movement. Excuse the errors! I am writing this from my phone due to laptop malfunctions! There is an error of repetition between the word order (separated as or _____ r that my phone is having a hard time deleting!