Just like the movie "Battleship Island" recommended this time, it is also the main theme movie, but more from the perspective of human nature, it explores how this nation, which was once colonized by Japan for 35 years, survived and shaped itself. The mind and soul, but also how to choose their own destiny.
The film begins with the laborious digging of North Korean laborers in the turbid air and dim light, and a few North Korean children flashed from time to time, and their hopes as this group of laborers will be carried out from time to time under the planning of labor leader Yin Xuezhe. "prison Break". But it seemed like it was destined, every time he escaped, he would not succeed, and every time he would be caught and executed by the Japanese soldiers.
As the boat dragged the drowned child back to the island, the music played, which was upbeat and joyful, but not only creepy when combined with the dim island in the rain, the humming of the motorboats, and the jeers of the Japanese soldiers. And the island that went back is the place where all the stories in this film take place - Battleship Island.
The bandleader Li Jiangyu and his daughter Li Suxi, the gang leader Cui Qixing, the comfort woman Wu Suinian, and the special agent Park Mooying, several people who have nothing to do with each other, because of their respective purposes, got together on the same boat and were sent to Warship Island.
On Warship Island, newcomers were told that they would like to have various benefits, including pension, medical insurance, etc. As long as they complete the mining amount every month, they can get the corresponding salary, and they can use the salary to trade and satisfy necessary for your daily life. This seems to be a policy with good welfare benefits, but like boiling a frog in warm water, it gradually numbs the nerves of every worker.
As a skilled band conductor, Li Jiangyu gained recognition by performing for the commander of Gunkanjima, which saved him the hardship of labor and saved his daughter. And Cui Qixing used his extraordinary courage and excellent fighting ability to get the job of managing North Korean laborers. In the last year of Wu, she was still forced to work as a comfort woman. Park Wuying also completed the task through various channels to save the labor leader Yin Xuezhe.
However, with the continuous development of the situation and the fatigue of the Japanese war, especially the defeat of the Pacific War, coupled with the participation of the United States in the war and the Hiroshima atomic bomb incident, various conspiracies gradually surfaced. Only then did the North Korean workers realize that what was before was a dream, and that the colonized had no dignity and rights to demand welfare and question the colonizers. But perhaps it is because I have lived in such an environment for so long that I have almost forgotten my identity as a North Korean, and I willingly want to become a "pseudo-Japanese". When the laborers planned to flee under Park Moo-young's plan, some people still fantasized that the Japanese would treat him as a real "human", saying stupid things like "the Japanese are more civilized than us" .
Physical imprisonment is terrifying, and a life that restricts freedom is like a bird with broken wings, but compared to a mental cage, it is tantamount to walking dead, more terrifying and bloody. And it is this spiritual cage that casts its final tragic ending. Although it is dramatic, it also has certain inevitability.
Of course, the movie does not only reflect this point, we can only talk about one point for a rough discussion. At the same time, several leading actors in this film also made contributions to this film that cannot be underestimated. As a veteran actor Huang Zhengwen, the father-daughter drama with young actor Jin Xiu'an really made us sigh at the acting skills of the two and showed us a father-daughter drama full of father and daughter. Love is not high above, the real father. As for the other three leading actors, Song Joong Ki, Lee Jung Hyun and So Ji Sub, I believe you should not be unfamiliar with it. They are all actors with good looks and acting skills. At the same time, although the theme of the story is heavy, the humor of the Koreans is reflected in the film from time to time, so that we can still smile softly while watching the film.
But at the same time, the movie still has some minor flaws, the story line is a bit messy, the editing is messy, and some bridges are unclear, which does bring us some unsmooth feeling when watching the movie.
However, this is still a good movie, a movie worthy of all of us to go to the cinema, because some of the laborers in Warship Island are Chinese, and our predecessors also experienced that period of history, that period of us Never forget the history that Japan has never recognized.
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