Has anyone seen this movie yet, "Tae Guk Gi"? It has been compared to the Korean version of
"Saving Private Ryan", though I believe SPR is more pro-war, whereas this movie is anti-war.
Basically, the plot is two brothers, one being older, a hardworking cobbler, and the other, a younger
scholar, are caught in the turmoil of the Korean War and drafted into the South Korean army. Prior to
being a soldier, the older brother and his fiance lived with his family, sans his father (dead),
whom owned both a shoe-shop and some sort of restaraunt or market. Anyways, the movie depicts life
prior to the war as extremely "hunk-dory" while showing an extremely emotional scene between the
brothers, their mother and the older brother's fiance. Anyways, the war breaks out, they get drafted and
so on and so forth. Watch the movie to find out the ending. However, the action scenes were filmed
with a very faithful sense of movement by the camera; everything is very jerky and you simply see
quick bits and pieces of bodies, fighting, etc. Interesting approach. I was just wondering on what the
ever-opinionated AR15 populus thought about the film. And sorry if this is a dupe... I obviously don't
have GD search.
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