The process of remembering in The President's Barber

Freud's article "Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through"explores hypnosis as a method of uncovering repressed memories of the patient: "in hypnotic treatments the process of remembering took a very simple form. The patient put himself back into an earlier situation, which he seemed never to confuse with the present one, and gave a mental account of the processes belonging to it" (148). The doctor is portrayed as a successful extractor of earlier reality, there to "fill in the gaps in memory" which may have been repressed.
Reading this article against The President's Barber seemed quite ironic to me, as this is a film that presents an account of national history through the seemingly oblivious eyes of commoner Han-mo. This film is not meant to be a documentary-like account of 1960s-70s South Korea, but instead disputes the authenticity of history by satirizing otherwise horrible and violent events such as the 4.19 student protest, with Han-mo's comic incompetence. The use of the tragi-comedy genre sets up history and memory at odds with each other, as the film is narrated by a retroactively-gazing Nak-han, and our access to politics is tinged with Han-mo's tribulations as the President's barber. The question here is what is the "right" way to remember history? Is it through the people who "make it happen," for example people in positions of authority, law-makers, governments...or through the eyes of the people who were decidedly apolitical, trying to make a living and raise a family, dealing with the mediocrity of everyday life when they happened to get roped into issues they might not really understand?
I think The President's Barber was an exploration of how Park's authoritarian regime affected the everyman, and how seemingly common people contribute to the formation and re-interpretation of collective memory. Han-mo starts off without much political opinion, happy to appease as many people as he can and not make a stir. However, when his son is tortured for being a suspect of the "Marxus disease," he shows the first sign of real outrage and anger at the regime, running out into the street yelling for justice for his son. In contrast with Freud's straight-forward "uncovering" of memory, The President's Barber is demonstrating that there is much more to it than that: it is a dynamic process of construal and modification that takes as many forms as there are narrators to tell their story.