This is a good, very pure "anti-war film", much better than those propaganda films that promote ideology under the guise of anti-war films.
We are not fighting the enemy, we are fighting the war
The director used the method of contrast to satirize the war. A group of people who don't know each other are like enemies. They are always dead because of an order, and it is the wrong order in time. The soldiers of North and South Korea could have sat together drinking wine and chatting in the tunnel, as in the final scene of the movie. You can also shout "Go all the way" on the edge of the stream. This first armistice was late for two years, and it cost 500,000 people to pay for it. It was 12 hours late. I don't know how much hope it turned into despair, and how many people were buried.
Lieutenant Jiang represents anti-warism, and chocolate is a tool to spread anti-war awareness. For children and female snipers, it represents his inner desire for peace, and he does not want children and women to appear in the war. He knows that the female sniper will be killed in the end. The hand represents his desperation, his quest for peace. The dissatisfaction and numbness of the soldiers at the bottom of the war is represented by the Crocodile Squadron headed by Kim Soo Hyuk. Their transformation was the Pohang War. They could only survive by killing their teammates, which made them lose their humanity like Lieutenant Kang. They killed Nancheng in two seconds. When it's time, their indifference and "you're an armless roar" to the little girl are the manifestations, and the only remaining humanity is talking to the North Korean soldier's wine cellar, seeing the photo of Cha Tae-jing and the final confrontation with Jiang. It can be seen in the lieutenant's confession. Children represent the hope in the army. As the children are taken away, there is desperation. The word they talk about is, when will the war stop.
In the last 12 hours, North and South Korea sang to each other, expressing war weariness and farewell. Perhaps the final destination of a soldier is the battlefield, to the hope that the world will never have the profession of a soldier.
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