The film mainly tells the story of the Korean War. In order to occupy a high ground on the battlefield, the North and the South fought fiercely. The success of the duo mode in recent years has led the film to focus on the friendship between two men in a fierce battle for the high ground. Kim Ok-bin will play a North Korean sniper. The director of the film, Zhang Xun, was the assistant director of Kim Ki-duk. In 2008, he directed "The Movie is the Movie" and showed his potential. Later, he became a box office darling with "The Righteous Brother". The screenwriter of the film is Park Sang-yan, the novelist who wrote "Joint Security Area JSA". He also wrote the script for the popular costume drama "Queen Seondeok".
The times create heroes, and once they succeed, they will die. The war has made a group of heroes, but behind it are countless bones and blood and tears, and behind the war is the sorrow and pain of ordinary people. Mothers lose their sons, children lose their fathers. No matter what reason is used to launch a war, it is a war after all. As Jianxin said in the Rurouni sword heart, "The sword is a weapon, and swordsmanship is a trick to kill. No matter how beautiful the reason is to cover it up, it is always the truth." The stalemate peace talks between China and Guinea were finally reached. The military commander signed the agreement. It seems simple, but behind the scenes are ordinary people who spend their days in pain.
"Highland War" did not focus on the entire Korean War as the main theme. The anti-spy officers who are far away from the front-line battlefield go to the front-line to investigate espionage incidents, an ordinary squadron, a group of the most ordinary soldiers and a high ground that is repeatedly contested. The Crocodile Squadron, known by the officers as war heroes at the opening, appeared for the first time with loose discipline and no heroic appearance. And the rhetoric of the new squadron leader proved a day later to be nothing but rhetoric, and the people who really understand the battlefield are always those who climbed out of the brink of war again and again. This is undoubtedly the greatest irony of those who sit at the back of the line and talk about war at ease. "Flying the Taiji Flag" expresses the cruelty of war through ordinary people, but after all, it is only unilaterally based on the south, and this "Highland War" uses the lowest level soldiers in the north and south to express the people's helplessness and war. The cruelty is displayed in front of people's eyes.
I once saw a joke, a criminal who was sentenced to life in prison would apply for a commutation of his sentence every year, and every time he would say happily, I have a wife who loves me. Years later, with silver hair, he faced the prosecutor's question, "Look at the file, you have a wife who loves you deeply." However, he looked at his right hand blankly and said, "Love my wife, I have long forgotten. "It can be seen that the ruthless passage of time will make all emotions forget. Kang Eun-pyo, who reunited after a long absence in the film, asked Kim Soo-hyuk if he didn't believe in God recently? The answer I got was that it was just a change from save me to kill. The once weak boy turned into a real war machine after 2 years of war. Before his death, Kim Soo Hyuk said, "Eun Biao, my mother, I can't remember my face." Such a simple sentence can't help but make people sad. The cruelty of war, facing death every second, has long forgotten everything. "Do you know why you lost? Because you don't know the reason for the battle." "I did know it before, but now, it's been too long, and I forgot." These are the two reasons why the North Korean officer played by Ryu Seung-ryong is fighting for the battle. answer. War can change a person, change beliefs, and completely destroy a person's will.
For what battle, a highland is occupied from winter to spring, occupied and occupied, repeated again and again, becoming only the constantly changing and increasing corpses all over the ground. Whether it is the south or the north, the people who fight are ordinary people, and the reasons for fighting are not that great, they are just simply wanting to live. Through the No. 14 cave, the belief of each other's survival is conveyed. And only in Cave Fourteen can they feel alive. The two sides who were still fighting yesterday exchanged items like friends in the cave. At the riverside after the armistice, facing the enemy who killed his comrades in arms, he even said to his best friend, "Well done, hard work." The fighting, fighting, and hatred no longer existed at that moment, only surviving in the war Happiness. The so-called final 12-hour battle at the top shattered all hope and happiness. Soldiers at the bottom are thrown away at will, like stones, and even the simplest happiness cannot be determined by oneself. The two sides are like the heights that have changed their masters countless times, and the emotions between them have changed, which represents the white fog that the two sides are unwilling to fight. The helplessness of survival. The sincere blessings by the river before turned into a fight with each other, just to survive. What did the tears before Shin Il-young's death represent? For dead comrades? Why can't you bring the remaining comrades of the Crocodile Squadron back to their hometown alive? Or sadness for yourself? In the end, the so-called collaborating espionage doesn't matter anymore. Just for the so-called 12-hour attack, the heights were once again full of corpses. Why? Countless Nan Chengzhi, countless crocodile squadrons, even if they die, they don't understand the reason for all this.
In terms of depicting war scenes and big scenes, "Highland War" is not as good as "Taichi Flag Flying", and the strong combination of Zhang Dongjian and Yuan Bin in the cast also laid the foundation for its success, but it is undeniable that "Highland" "War"'s depiction of human nature and the description of both sides of the war are more successful and thought-provoking. The war is a kind of harm to both sides, and there is no real winner in the war. No matter what the result was, in the end, it was just the corpses that were scattered all over the high ground in exchange for it.
PS: Most of the civil war movies focus on the Anti-Japanese War. Even if it is a three-year civil war, it cannot directly penetrate the essence of the war. In fact, no matter how gorgeous war scenes and special effects a war movie is, it is not as good as the thinking and introspection of the war that directly touches the hearts of the people. I sincerely hope that one day I can see a successful war movie completed by the Chinese in the theater.
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