War makes animals of us all
태극기 휘날리며 Taegukgi Hwinallimyo [Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War], 2004. Dir. 강제규/姜帝圭 KANG Je-gyu. Perf. 장동건/張東健 JANG Dong-geon, 원빈/元斌 WON Bin.
Christ almighty, I really need to back off the depressing movies. This one hit me harder than most for some reason. It shows a particularly awful, human side of war in a way that a lot of war movies don't.
In some respects a typical war film (blood, bombs, and gore galore!), complete with shaky yet precise Saving Private Ryan-style filming. On the other hand, it's (a) about the Korean War and (b) a South Korean movie about the Korean War, lending a somewhat different perspective to the whole bloody mess.
I found it absolutely heartbreaking and kept bursting into tears, even though the music was horrible, the cinematography drove me nuts, there was way too much hand-to-hand combat, the plot was so ... over the top in so many ways. It was so awful and so heartbreaking on so many levels at so many points.
I am using 'so' too much, but really, it's all a bit much to process.
I shouldn't have left you alone back then
The music was really awful, though. Truly. Like, belonging to a bad Lifetime movie awful.
Christ almighty, I really need to back off the depressing movies. This one hit me harder than most for some reason. It shows a particularly awful, human side of war in a way that a lot of war movies don't.
In some respects a typical war film (blood, bombs, and gore galore!), complete with shaky yet precise Saving Private Ryan-style filming. On the other hand, it's (a) about the Korean War and (b) a South Korean movie about the Korean War, lending a somewhat different perspective to the whole bloody mess.
I found it absolutely heartbreaking and kept bursting into tears, even though the music was horrible, the cinematography drove me nuts, there was way too much hand-to-hand combat, the plot was so ... over the top in so many ways. It was so awful and so heartbreaking on so many levels at so many points.
I am using 'so' too much, but really, it's all a bit much to process.
I shouldn't have left you alone back then
The music was really awful, though. Truly. Like, belonging to a bad Lifetime movie awful.