我们扭曲的英雄 (1987)

《我们扭曲的英雄》（韩语：우리들의 일그러진 영웅，又译《扭曲了的英雄》、《我们丑陋的英雄》），为韩国作家李文烈的小说作品。该故事首先于《世界文学》（韩语：세계의 문학）刊载，大受好评，更被改编为同名电影。

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剧情

故事发生在20世纪60年代初，男主人公韩秉泰跟随仕途失败的父亲从汉城转学到乡下。

到了新学校，韩秉泰发现全部同学都屈从于班长严锡大的统治之下，他们不仅仅要作弊帮助他答题，还要把自己从家里带来的中午饭交给他处理。韩秉泰本来怀着汉城小孩的优越感，以为自己一定可以成为班上同学的领袖，他根本就不听命于严锡大。

可是，很快他就发现自己根本不是严锡大的对手，因为严锡大不仅受到全班同学的拥戴，他还是老师心目中最正直，最优秀的典范，老师也赋予严锡大更多管理班级的权力。严锡大利用检查清洁卫生的机会，好好的惩罚了一次韩秉泰，不管有多么的认真，他擦的玻璃始终不能获得通过。韩秉泰骄傲的心理防线崩溃了。他也开始象别的同学那样利用各种机会讨好严锡大。严锡大在确认已经将韩秉泰收拾得服服帖帖以后，向全班同学宣布韩秉泰为班级的第二号人物。韩秉泰开始成为班级里欺负弱者的主力。

严锡大的专制统治在一位充满民主思想的金老师到来后，彻底瓦解了。金老师发现严锡大的所有试卷都是由他人代答。金老师毫不犹豫地惩罚了他，学生们也开始一个一个地揭发严锡大的罪状。严锡大之所以能在班级里建立起来自己的权威，是因为那些完全服从于权威的同学造成的。

噩梦般的学生时代终于过去，韩秉泰也为自己的软弱付出了代价。可是当韩秉泰听说失踪多年的严锡大也要来参加小学时期的老师的葬礼时，他感觉到一阵莫明的恐慌。很显然，虽然他已经长大成人，可是他还无法完全从严锡大的阴影中走出来。

演员

洪景仁 饰 严锡大

高正一 饰 韩秉泰

崔岷植 饰 金老师

李真善 饰 吕老师

太民永 饰 韩秉泰（成年）

申　久 饰 崔老师

Our Twisted Hero (Korean: 우리들의 일그러진 영웅) is a South Korean novel written by Yi Munyol. It is a political allegory of Korea's transition from dictatorship to democracy, with themes of how totalitarianism can crush intellectual opposition, either by intimidation or assimilation.

It was first published by World Literature (세계의 문학) in June 1987. Yi Munyol was awarded the 1987 Yi Sang Literary Award for the novel.

This book was a big hit in South Korea and was later made into the 1992 film adaptation, Our Twisted Hero, directed by Park Jong-won. It was translated into English by Kevin O'Rourke and published by Minumsa Publishing in 1988 and Hyperion East in 2001.

Characters

Han Pyongtae - protagonist

Om Sokdae - class monitor of the 5th grade

5th grade teacher

6th grade teacher

8th grade teacher

Pyongtae's Wife

Plot

This story is told by a man named Han Byeong-tae (or Pyŏngt'ae), recalling his memories when he was in 5th grade and part of 6th grade.

Due to Byeong-tae's father failing in business, they move to a low town and go to Y Elementary School. There, he meets Eom Seokdae (or Ŏm Sŏkdae), a president of the 5th grade and one who holds everything in his grade, more than his teacher. However, Eom Seokdae forces students with threats and violence to follow him. Byeong-tae fights Soekdae's reign and tries everything in his power to overthrow the bully. However, every single student in their class supports Soekdae. Therefore, everything goes wrong for him; his parents misunderstand him, his grades go down and his power ranking also goes down. Hence he loses, gives up, and gives up under Seokdae's power.

After, Seokdae treats him specially, granting him more power and allowing him to gain popularity. First, he restores Byeong-tae's fighting rank to even higher than before. Second, he makes everyone hang out with Byeong-tae so he is not alone. Byeong-tae also gets his grades back up. At this point, the narrator begins to have mixed feelings for Seokdae, ranging from gratitude to fear. "I was thankful to Seokdae. But when I think it back, those things were the things I had lost to Seokdae. He had just given it back."

But when Byeong-tae goes to 6th grade, Seokdae's power breaks, because the new teacher takes action against the strange distribution of power among the classmates. After Seokdae's cheating and bullying have been outed by the teacher, he leaves school and is never heard from again.

The story turns back to the present. Byeong-tae, now grown up, ends up seeing a familiar man getting dragged down by the police in a station. As the man turns his face, Byeong-tae recognizes the distinctive features as Seokdae. Seokdae seems unchanged, still controlling people or at least trying to.

Analysis

Han Byeong-tae fights against Eom Seokdae until he is left with nothing. At this point he breaks and gives up his principles, in a scene reminiscent of a parallel one in Orwell's 1984, turning instead to fight to gain Eom's respect. He is rewarded for this turn by being made Eom's second-in-command, a privileged position. When the new teacher breaks Seokdae's power in the school, while all the other students turn on Seokdae, only Byeong-tae refuses to admit to Seokdae's wrongdoings. This is seemingly because he cannot give up the power that cost him all of his original beliefs of freedom.