Korean Civil War

Elody 2022-03-21 09:02:41

It was because I was watching Wang Shuzeng's Far East Korean War, so I found this film to watch. The work in 2004 has not been imported in China, and it is not easy to find this film. Interesting to say, for this film, I used a book (Yu Dan's Analects) and a disc seller for a Yu Dan's Analects and this Tai Chi Flag Flying for two discs. It has been in the drawer for a long time, and I finally took it out to watch it today. What I didn’t expect is that this movie is nearly three hours long, which is longer than the last Jia Zhangke I watched the second time. After a break for a while, continue watching. Fortunately, Won Biao and Jang Dong Gun were eye-catching enough to support me in watching.

There are not many movies about war. Perhaps the shooting skills need to highlight the real and brutal war, which is far more shocking than watching a documentary about the Korean War. How can it be described by the word "tragic". This is a blockbuster with a lot of investment and production, and it has changed my view of Korean dramas. Maybe you still know too little about them.

For the history of the Korean War, it is mostly the two foreign countries fighting between China and the United States. As the protagonists of the Korean Civil War, North Korea and South Korea have not much focus. This film makes up for this shortcoming. Both North Korean and South Korean people hope to live in a peaceful environment. Although they are poor, their family can live happily. But when the war came, everything was disrupted.

The brothers who were forced to enlist in the army, the elder brother fought bravely in order to make the younger brother with heart disease go home, hoping to get a medal of honor and let his younger brother go. But in an environment like the battlefield, medals are not so easy to get, but it is easy to turn people into devils. Disgusted by the war, because of the pain of his stump, someone actually shot at his comrades in the trenches, and finally turned the gun to shoot at himself. When everyone was celebrating for the elder brother who won the medal, the younger brother just looked at him blankly, as if he was a stranger. He was just an ordinary shoe repairer, but he became a war madman. After his fiancée was killed as a "Communist", a fighting hero turned into a general of the other side, and forced him to Liangshan again. In fact, in his heart, there is no difference between communism and democracy, and participating in the war is to end the war as soon as possible and return home as soon as possible.

The reason why the film is not allowed to be introduced may lie in the difference between communism and democracy. But it also allows us to understand this war objectively and not listen to partiality. We should have the ability to distinguish whether it is or not. Although the language of "anti-communism" is relatively inaudible, it is mainly the war between the North and South Korean armies.

War is like a fight between two men, fighting in the name of the country. In fact, apart from weapons, it was this kind of hand-to-hand combat that was staged in the trenches, either you died or I lived, and it was obviously people of the same race who spoke the same language. I always feel that being beaten to death by outsiders is normal and acceptable; but being killed by one's own people is intolerable, but people just can't throw away this kind of anti-rebellion. There are both in China and abroad, especially the Khmer Rouge.

How precious is peace, otherwise, how can there be a flat place where you can watch discs safely?

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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War quotes

  • Jin-seok: I wish this was all just a dream. I want to wake up in my bed, and over breakfast, I'd tell you that I had a strange dream. Then I would go to school, and you and mom would go to work.

  • Young-shin: [while trying to decide what to take along as they evacuate the house upon declaration of war] There's Kimchi pots buried in the yard. What will happen to them?