After watching the two movies, Common Security Zone and Tie Yu, I seem to want to find something from the movies. The peace and reunification of the Korean peninsula has always been the focus of the world's attention. If the "Common Security Zone" is about a secret environment, after stripping away the opposing positions of the two Koreas, the common people's blood is thicker than water. Then "Iron Rain" added a bit of bitterness and helplessness to the international environment, and the two sides became bargaining chips in the game of great powers.
At the impoverished and remote North Korean farmers market, veteran Yan Tieyou accepts his final mission to purge the army of reactionary leaders. At the final mission location, Kaesong Industrial Park, he unexpectedly waited for the No. 1 person on the Korean peninsula. What was different from the plan was not only the arrival of the No. 1 person, but also foreshadowed that a game was inevitable. The missile attacked and the No. 1 character was seriously injured. With the help of two female students, Yan Tieyou and others established cooperation with the Blue House. After a lot of hard work, it seems that the high-level military coup who came to negotiate has been resolved. However, it seems that the development seems to be easy, but it is only a temporary respite from the ongoing intertwined conspiracy and conspiracy incident. The accident of the No. 1 figure has pushed the DPRK and the ROK to the brink of war, and China, the United States, and Japan must also face the immediate problems. The entire Korean peninsula will face the threat of a new cold war or a nuclear war.
Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea in 1992, the relationship between China and South Korea has developed rapidly, and China has become more deeply involved in regional affairs. After entering the new millennium, exchanges and development in East Asia are also full of new vitality. In the past three decades, the disputes surrounding the peninsula have never stopped. The establishment, activation and final shutdown of the Kaesong Industrial Park, the development of North Korea’s nuclear weapons, and even the U.S. military presence in South Korea, etc., are no longer questions that can be answered by relying on the two Koreas alone. Hypocritical and harsh, even the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula has become an unwilling result to be acted upon. China, the United States, and Japan are not only background boards, but the film is also full of irony. The CIA agent, the representative of the United States, only thinks about intelligence, and it is only beneficial to stand in the position of the United States, but she can respond indifferently in the end. Chinese officials seem to have these human touches, but they don't care about their past feelings at the moment of decision. The performance in the film seems to be that the Koreans are also considered to be compatriots in North and South Korea. On the other hand, the people who appear in the Japanese shots always have a sense of distance. They use honorifics to maintain respect and smile at all times, but they never know what is on their faces.
Going back to the film, if you only look at the performance of the two leading actors, I really hope this is a road movie. The two people are full of differences and do not know each other, eat noodles together, block bullets for each other, and finally build up in battle a deep friendship. Although, the plots of these arrangements are somewhat formulaic, and you can even anticipate the true thoughts of the facts, but even if you can anticipate the direction of the ending, you are reluctant to let it happen. On the contrary, I hope that the wish of the two protagonists to go to Qingpudong together can be realized, and the time can stop on the sunny afternoon when the two sides shook hands. And the determined fighter turned around and fled into the dark cave tunnel to complete his final historical mission.
Like the common security area, this ending is tragic, and at the same time it is destined against the background of the times, and the short-lived true feelings contained in the tragic can better bring out the cruelty of reality.
Of course, the crisis will eventually be resolved, and at the end, leaving a beautiful place for peace. In the film, when Yan Tieyou shook hands with Guo Zheyu, and at the end of the handshake between the negotiating representatives of the DPRK and the ROK, I really felt a kind of power from the arm to the palm. The pain of blood and tears drawn against each other.
Although simple Pyongyang and wealthy Seoul are different in appearance, the scene of the whole family eating and drinking soup in a dim old house in North Korea is as warm and touching as the emptiness of the feasting Seoul city at night. Although there is a contrast between the rich and the poor in the film, but it goes to the point, as if not wanting to hurt the face of the poor brothers after the separation, it is vivid and restrained, as if thinking about each other all the time. It is also an ideological dispute that draws daggers. In shaping the image of North Korea, South Korea is not knowing how many times more benevolent than the United States is to China and the Soviet Union. The depiction of North Korean agents is also as full and three-dimensional as possible. Even the target of the first nuclear bomb was Japan, not South Korea.
And only the Korean people, who have suffered from division, can use such a film to interpret "in a divided country, the reason why people suffer so much is not because of division itself, but because of those who regard division as a political means. Suffering more." Of course, I don't know if these films are some kind of propaganda device (like GD is repeatedly mentioned in the film) or more profound.
Going back to the thinking at the beginning, I am also a compatriot. Why do I bring myself into a simple individual through this kind of film? I even experienced the heart of the people of the DPRK and the ROK hugging each other, but I can't feel the Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Children have the same mind. TV dramas with various themes related to Taiwan are mostly about the evacuation stories before liberation. Family members, friends, lovers, and brothers and sisters are separated because of different beliefs. The touching stories of looking for family relationships have only been seen in programs such as root-hunting. Film and television culture still cannot make people feel empathy, how do we observe each other in a narrow way? The mainland opened its arms to Taiwan, but what they got was the cynicism from the other side, leaving only a trace of chill in the deepest part of their hearts. Is our separation from Taiwan already so deep? How should we shout "Hello, compatriots," to the new generation of young people who have received Taiwan independence education and who have the same appearance but different perceptions? How we love them and how we are loved.
It is hoped that the motherland will be reunified as soon as possible, and the separatist forces will no longer rise.
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