The 38° military demarcation line has become the most tense place in the world, and any trouble may become the focus, not only because it is the place with the most troops in the world, but also because of the sadness of the same nation being separated by a line.
Originally, a South Korean soldier who accidentally crossed the border stepped on a landmine, and a kind North Korean soldier saved him, which triggered a political tragedy. This is all embarrassing. It has nothing to do with politics or doctrine. Maybe they will become best friends. As the protagonist himself said, spanning 50 years of humiliation can lead the two countries towards friendly reunification. Still a victim of politics.
There are two colors throughout the film. One shows the turbulent border between North Korea and South Korea incisively and vividly with an extremely oppressive sense of darkness, and the other shows the pure friendship between the soldiers of the two countries with cheerful and warm happiness. Happy friendship, showing the darkness of politics, laying the groundwork for the last friends to shoot each other, satirizing human nature, this method of promoting first and then suppressing brought deep thinking to the audience.
A photo shows inter-Korean relations
The inter-Korean issue is a legacy of the Cold War, and it is also the conflict point of the new Cold War. This is also the most difficult part of the inter-Korean issue.
The film has two story lines, one is a friendship line that tells the story of four soldiers who meet their confidants. The other is the political line in which neutral nations intervene in the investigation after the shootout. The two lines intersect, and the complexity of the narrative is second only to the peninsula relationship.
The film usually uses the center surround camera to express the relationship between the four people. The four soldiers sit together, just like the leaders of the two sides are talking, but at the same time, the two Koreas are fighting with each other, and the four soldiers are chatting and laughing. This is also the director's irony. The technique, and all 4 soldiers used close-up shots, was very tense, and also laid the groundwork for the subsequent border conflict.
The owl at the beginning of the film is actually a finishing touch. The owl is a metaphor for seeing what you really want in the dark night, but you can only see the truth under the protection of the dark night. Doesn’t this even show the hypocrisy of the North Korean issue!
the end of the film
The only group photo of the 4 brothers turned out to be caused by a foreign tourist whose hat flew up. Note that according to the tidbits of the film, there is a real Panmunjom here. Purpose The Korean Peninsula must move towards reunification.
The essence of the confrontation in the world is the confrontation between capitalism and socialism. However, the heroine's father has no choice. Maybe he saw the filth of war and chose to go to a peaceful place. This is not just his father's idea. , is the idea of every human being who loves a better life, because our wish is world peace.
2018.10.26 The leaders of the DPRK and the ROK meet in Panmunjom
At the end of the movie, South Korean soldiers jumped off the building to end this political tragedy. It is simply that the peninsula today is no longer as tense as before, and I hope that it will not be so tense in the future.
The world is still unstable, but fortunately we are born in a stable country. The reunification of the DPRK and the ROK is the general trend of history, and world peace is the joint effort of everyone.
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