In order to protect the younger brother from going home to study, the elder brother disregarded his own safety, just in exchange for a medal of honor; the younger brother was worried about the worries of his family and insisted that the elder brother be careful.
The director uses the method of parallel montage to express a kind of helplessness and a kind of hope.
What is helpless is that everyone is born with differences in understanding, how can they look at things the same? Therefore, there will inevitably be a wider range of differences, the so-called ideological differences, which are used by the regime to bring about war. People start hating each other for reasons they can't even explain themselves, and are incited by so-called "patriotism" and some seemingly noble emotions to eliminate dissidents. The main line of this split is precisely connected by a pair of brothers, although their understandings are also different. With a deep love for his younger brother, a kind of selfish love, the elder brother made him ignore his personal safety and the concerns of his family, just to get a medal of honor, while sending his younger brother home to continue his studies. On the other hand, the younger brother is more concerned with the feelings of others, his family members, and the people of North Korea. He hopes that the elder brother will stop the beast-like slaughter, give up the false medal of honor, and give up the vanity of being a hero. Even if they are brothers, they cannot escape their values and outlook on life, not to mention the ethnic groups of the two continents?
The director did not use the method that most of us are used to seeing, promoting one side and spurning the other side, but reflected the Korean War as realistically and neutrally as possible, which is different from many films on the mainland, and is also different from the western films in the United States. The leading film is different. At this point, the director has transcended the constraints of ideology. What he wants to express is not anger, but a hope that everyone in the world can read the voices of others and understand others, just like the younger brother reads I understand that my brother also cares deeply for his family after reading the letter from his brother’s family; I hope that people can ignore the difference in ideology and the difference in values between people, and pay more attention to what really deserves our attention-such as the brother in the movie love, or the brotherhood of the people of North and South Korea. After all, ideology is something outside the body, and the guise of politics—the honorary soldier in the capitalist army can still be turned into a special soldier in the communist army; and the truth in people’s hearts is mostly the same—the brother who has always acted selfishly and arbitrarily In fact, he also cares about his family.
Acknowledging the helplessness of reality, but not pessimistic about it, at the end of the film, the director pinned his hopes on the future - by educating the next generation, people can see more of the sameness in people's feelings rather than differences in values .
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