Applause and sighs... for every war.

Rating: Null/10 (24 May 2007)

A delicate and detailed description of common people's plight and fate in war-time: shattered dreams, separated family, hopelessness, fight for the loved ones that people can never forget, especially Koreans. In actuality, the Lee brothers exist in every war-torn country throughout the entire human history: ordinary people with dreams about their future and without much sense to political or national matters, yet they are dragged into turmoil and dilemma with Hobson's choice. Many in Iraq now.
Does Jin-tae know or care about the differences between the communists and the democrats? Negative. What he cares about is the safety of his more talented younger brother Jin-seok (sending him back to war-free zone), his family and his fiancée. "Is that for the country or your brother?" he was tongue-tied to this question about his fearless fights in the battlefields.
The forever truth is that besides people with power, no one else cares about or wants to have war, neither internal nor external ones. And, at that precious and long-gone "age of innocence", we did have many brothers like Jin-tae Lee and Jin-seok Lee, in reality, the German Sophie Scholl and Hans Scholl is one of the versions of less violence. Their brotherly love until death lives on.
The war has long stopped, so when will North and South come together?