Four people, two outposts, one bridge and one nation

Blaze 2022-04-23 07:03:44

The story as a whole pays more attention to the description of the friendship between the four people in the second half of the movie. In this way, in order to help Lee Soo Hyuk and Nam Sung Shik to drag off the relationship, Wu Jing Pil killed the soldiers who broke in later, and in order to cover Lee Soo Hyuk yelled.

Carefully, we can find that there is an owl at the beginning of the movie. This owl witnessed the incident in the middle of the two outposts. In Korea, owls represent wisdom. This may be a reference by the director in this movie, and at the same time The title owl flies into a bright bullet hole found at the crime scene.

The film is based on the background of the North-South relationship on the Korean peninsula at that time. The four soldiers were very close and could even sacrifice themselves for each other, which formed a sharp contrast with the tension at that time. At the same time, at the end of the movie, Lee Soo Hyuk stood at the place where Nam Seong-sik jumped off the building and guided himself to commit suicide in order to pay for his mistake and killed Jung Woo-jin. He also showed a group photo of the four together. Although the four were separated by a guard line, the relationship between the four was not alienated by the fact that one line, one bridge, two ethnic groups and two outposts.

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Joint Security Area quotes

  • Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil: Your shadow is over the line. Watch it!

  • Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeok: Hey Assholes! You just gonna leave me here?

    Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil: You told us to go.

    Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeok: I said don't come closer, when did I say to leave, you fuckers!