This is another winner of a film from the Koreans and it has a pretty awesome message in it. It was the highest grossing Korean film of all time (at the time) and also won a bunch of awards both Korean and international.

The plot begins with a neutral investigation team being brought in to attempt to ease tensions between North and South Korea over some murders that happened at a North Korean checkpoint headquarters. Two officers from both the North and South were witnesses to the crime yet their stories don't match up. The Swiss and Swedish bring in a Korean-speaking European to help to diffuse the situation and to avoid war.

Song Kang-ho has been in a number of blockbusters following this film but in my opinion this is his best performance. While the rest of the cast is great also (although some of the English acting seemed a bit forced) Kang-ho was incredible in his depiction of North Korean Sergeant Oh Kyung-pil.

Without giving away too much of the story, it becomes evident that the North and South Korean soldiers being interviewed by the neutral investigation team are both lying in an effort to protect one another. It is revealed throughout the flashbacks that the two were part of 2-person teams that monitor the DMZ at night and ended up forming an incredibly unlikely friendship. Since they are part of opposite armies that are currently at war, this brotherhood wouldn't be acceptable to either of their superiors.

The story say a lot about the human condition and the song "People are People" by Depeche Mode comes to mind. The film is tragic but also heartwarming at the same time.

While I am aware that I overuse this term, the trailer doesn't do the film justice. I suppose you'll just have to take my word on this one. The only downside of the film is that it is a bit slow at times and just like any non-Korean watching a Korean movie, it can be difficult to keep up with the names.

7 / 10

If you show his past videos to a wonderful entertainer, you can sometimes see his suffering in TV entertainment. This is because the appearance that shows off the unfit or unfamiliar technique has been overloaded with the audience for a long time. The funny thing is that most of the entertainers seem to be great at the moment, but this is the reverse.

At that time, there was a movie that I would just like to see if I could see or listen again and it was a wonderful work. Of course, it was really fun at the time, but again, I have a movie like that. Usually, after a while the identity of the work is revealed, and the JSA is in a vague boundary to say good or bad.

From the point of view of the material, now the relationship between South Korea and North Korea is so deep that it has nothing to do with the gunfire. It is hard to see it as the film's fault. When you think about the story, you open a typical "closet, Came out "is a mystery of the way. There is no problem in digging out the incident, but it is difficult to accept why Nam Sung-sik was constantly shooting at Jung Woo-jin's body. It was only a clue scene for 16 bullets. It is hard to accept even if it was the station which the inside personal case symbolized Lee 's feelings. Maybe I should see the original novel.

In order to persuade this contingent scene, the filmmaker Park Chan-wook made Lee Soo-hyuk has been kidnapped by North Korean soldiers to the North Korean military office scene, while taking pictures of four people, and the face of Nam-il was shining in the reflection of light. He put a lot of devices that he flew, but the time went, it turned out he was lying. The technique was great, but he just did not speak well. This can be seen as a false story. It feels like watching the lawyer's trial technique.

Anyway, there are materials and scenes that can be seen in Park Chan-wook's directorial debut of JSA, and later in the next works, and it seems that there was a concept such as thirst, 3 monster and old boy at this time.

It is hard to feel well, but when Lee Su-hyeok shoots his palate with his gun, he looks downward and turns into a victim of crucifixion for the truth to the audience. When the camera turned, he became a common fate.

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