If this film didn't move you, you have no heart...

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2005)

I went into this movie with high expectations already and f*** did it deliver. I absolutely LOVED this movie; it made you hate both sides and then that feeling is taken away and replaced by a deep saddening of what the side effects of war do to human beings. I like it because it brings attention to a war that is dubbed by Americans as the "Forgotten War". I think that is not only incredibly f***ed up but also insulting to the people involved because a war is never something to be forgotten. Going through the American high school system firsthand AND being of full Korean descent, I found it a little unnerving that both the Korean war and the Vietnam war were not covered in history class at all; maybe two pages in the textbook and that's it. Not that I want it glorified but I want people to acknowledge that this happened and form their own opinions about it. The end of the movie was more than I could handle (maybe because I'm a girl ^_^). I'm happy to see that the Korean film industry is making some headway and this film definitely helped the cause. I hope that anyone that is even just a little curious about this movie should without a doubt go pick it up at a local Hollywood video.