The Best Antiwar Movie Since The Schindler's List and Life is Beautiful

Rating: 10/10 (24 January 2005)

This film is the most expensive South Korean movie ever... ($12M) But let me say this, a money well spent, this film resonates to all kinds of audiences: intelligent, dumb or whatever, the feeling is pretty universal. Taegukgi avoided to prioritize politics and retell the 38th parallel war over and over again, it focuses on us... human beings who are directly affected by the cruelty of war, not the society as a whole or the rest of the history but the unbearable pain it causes to every individual, families that have been separated by war. It talks about dehumanization, agony and yet the courage of the human heart to accept fate... The movie is very brave, sincere and emotionally wrenching. One of the best films that I've ever seen...