![]() His personality becomes brutal and uncaring, which is a stark contrast to his motivations going in. Jin-tae soon becomes drunk with the power that war can bring. How the war changes the characters is a huge part of the film’s journey and the main crux of its power. The glory and horrible tragedy of war is brought to life in violent and vicious ways. But this film is too good to just be about a man’s undying love for his brother. An officer promises him that if he wins a medal then his brother can go home, so Jin-tae signs up for every suicide mission he can. Jin-tae desperately wants to protect his younger brother. Jin-tae and Jin-seok are drafted into the army. Then the Korean War breaks out and everything changes. Their life is simple, but they are happy. He works to support his mother, his fiancée Young-shin (Eun-ju Lee, GARDEN OF HEAVEN), her young siblings and his 18-year-old brother Jin-seok (Bin Won), who is college material. Jin-tae (Dong-Kun Jang, TV’s GHOST) is a shoeshine boy who dreams of opening his own shoe shop. Director Je-gyu Kang (SHIRI) has don't an amazing task of creating a film that is both epic and intimate at the same time. For lack of a better description, this is a Korean SAVING PRIVATE RYAN with shades of PLATOON and APOCALYPSE NOW. This film proves that filmmakers working anywhere can rival Hollywood in production value and storytelling skills. ![]() ![]() South Korea is an emerging film powerhouse.
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