common security area

Martine 2022-04-20 09:02:13

Adapted from a novel, the film is based on the relationship between the North and the South on the Korean peninsula. It tells the story of the soldiers of the South and North Korea who developed from opposing garrison soldiers to friends but confronted each other. It is the first South Korea's first frontal performance between the North and South soldiers who are divided. Friendship video.

The first half of the film is carried out in the process of constantly setting up doubts and counter-evidence. The highlight lies in some small details in the performance. Song Kanghao's performance in the mine clearance scene and the post scene is too joyful. The part showing the friendship between the two soldiers is equally authentic and credible. The two scenes of fighting abductees and giving gifts to each other under the moonlight It reflects the compatriotism of the two sides that blood is thicker than water and the simple and innocent side of human nature, which is warm and touching. There are also comedy scenes of spitting at each other on both sides of the security area separated by one meter. The flesh and blood between these compatriots who have slowly grown has laid a good foundation for the outbreak of cruel tragedies in the future.

The ending is called "one of the top ten classic endings of Korean movies". The characters appearing in the film are taken into the same time and space by the camera at the same time. The black-and-white photos not only cherish the friendship of the four people, but also indicate that their mutual compatriots will not be separated. The dividing line separated by meters is forever separated, and the smiles hidden in the corners of their lips and eyes will eventually bring the two countries to unity.

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Extended Reading
  • Elsie 2022-03-21 09:02:51

    In this film, Park Chan-wook overwhelmed me with the kind of grief that both ends of the heart and soul are thicker than water but cannot but be enemies of each other. Everything is in the man's emotional sensation, which is lightly led to the ubiquitous shadow of the United States behind it, and incidentally ridiculed the indifference and hypocrisy of the neutral countries hidden under the rationale. For Korean female officers, there is something more important than the detection of the case, and that thing is to protect the life and death of the four soldiers on both sides of the enemy; for the Korean soldiers, there is something more important than their own lives, that thing. Something is to keep secrets to protect comrades-in-arms; for the two Koreas, there is something more important than the truth, and that thing is to maintain the status quo of the armistice; for Europe and the United States, there is something more important than peace, and that thing is the weakening of dissident power . The stone that was wrapped in letters and slipped across the sky every night, the photo of the three of them avoiding the North Korean leader, the photo of the four in the same frame that only appeared at the end of the movie, the common dignity of the four who was defended by the hero's suicide by redemption , these plots are writing the most powerful footnotes for this tragic struggle that individuals are destined to be crushed by the game of national interests.

  • Bailey 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Thinking of the creative scope of Chinese film directors, alas, I am speechless. Is that JSA a real shot? Because it is so much like the real world.

Joint Security Area quotes

  • Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil: Your shadow is over the line. Watch it!

  • Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeok: Hey Assholes! You just gonna leave me here?

    Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil: You told us to go.

    Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeok: I said don't come closer, when did I say to leave, you fuckers!