Baidu Encyclopedia, entry: Shangganling
"Brothers, if one day goes to the battlefield, I will bring everyone back alive." When in the army, at a military meeting, the battalion commander said this Speaking of. At that time, I didn’t know what war was at all. I only knew that after the slogan “Training starts from actual combat” was put forward, the training time every day was more difficult than before.
The unit where I am a soldier is the current special operations brigade of the 12th Army. On the Korean battlefield, it is called the 31st Division of the 12th Army. As a reserve force for the Battle of Shangganling, when the 15th Army was exhausted and could no longer organize effective battles , into the battle. The company I belonged to was called "Yangshan Attacking fortified Heroes Company", and later it was called "Southwest Bandit Suppression Model Company", the company next door was called "Night Attack on Yangmingbao Heroes Company", and there was another company in the battalion called "Stick to Shangganling Iron and Steel Heroes" even". Yes, our ancestors once shed their blood on the Korean battlefield at the same age as us, and now we inherit the glory and merit they established and train hard every day to defend this growing country.
"Highland War" is the second Korean war movie I've seen that depicts the Korean War. It can be said that his understanding and performance of war is far beyond many anti-Japanese dramas in our country. It's different from another American war movie "Pot Head" that also gave me a huge impact. The war shown in "The Pot Cover" is nothingness, a war without casualties and bloodshed. The repeated battles for the highlands in "Battle of the Highlands" are naked meat grinders, one by one fresh lives enter, and then there are no more. Not just for the South Korean military, but for all parties in the war. Countless corpses were piled up on the small high ground. And the sacrifice of so many people on this high ground is only to have a little more land during the armistice. The Korean War started when the North Korean army crossed the 38th parallel and returned to the 38th parallel, and the artillery fire during the war has sledged every inch of the Korean peninsula.
After the war, North Korea and South Korea each embarked on a different development path, and their division has continued to this day. The fate of the two countries, however, was very different. Today, North Korea has become the most closed and rigid country in the world, while South Korea has entered the ranks of developed countries. But if we look back at the history of the Korean peninsula after the Korean War, we will find that things are not as clear-cut as we thought. After the war, North Korea received great help from China and the Soviet Union and achieved many industrial achievements. South Korea has long been a dictatorship of the military group, and it was not until the end of the 1980s that it got rid of North Korea economically and gradually realized democratization. Therefore, it is really unreasonable to deny the rationality of the Korean War based on the comparison between the DPRK and the ROK today.
In "Highland War", everyone's fate is engulfed by war and loses their original appearance. If there is no war, maybe Second Second and Lieutenant Jin can have a beautiful love, maybe the 17-year-old recruit is still under Chenghuan's knees. However, it would be too superficial to point all the misfortunes of the characters to the war itself. The Korean War was essentially an ideological war, and neither side of the war had the so-called justice, did it? No matter which side, the government they established is a dictatorship government. However, the political groups on each side have adopted the most tragic way of war to realize their political demands. As Hayek and Keynes said, the most dangerous thing in the world is thought.
The first half of the twentieth century was an era of dramatic changes in human society. Various ideas, doctrines and methodologies produced in the second industrial revolution have been practiced in various countries that have just eliminated feudalism. The extreme nature of these ideas inspired the nationalism and statist fanaticism of the people of various countries in the world. Looking back at history, we can see that the huge impact on the old system brought about by the spread of the thought wave of Marxism around the world has not disappeared to this day. Because a certain group accepts a certain thought and takes it as a guide for all its actions, it finds rationality for the radical, anti-human, and anti-human aspects of its own behavior, and will always advertise its own justice. Just as both sides in a war curse each other loudly and regard their own sacrifice as a supreme honor.
At present, when the concept of ideology is gradually weakened, people are moving towards the side of nothingness. But as long as there are people in this world, there will be barriers and mutual incomprehension. Tolerance is a word that is politically correct and pleasant. But the arrogance and prejudice of people themselves will not be completely eliminated. The emergence of extreme thoughts is always rooted in this understanding that caters to the public's psychology.
At present, the war seems to be far away from us, but it is not far away, it is like a nightmare lingering in the most claustrophobic place in everyone's heart. When we celebrate the victory of war, we celebrate this collective violence, which brings not only fear to everyone, but also the thrill of killing based on human and animal nature.
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