대국 Tae-guk

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Tae-guk<o:p></o:p>

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This is an awesome movie and a terrible movie. What I mean is it is a movie that is full of terror and a movie you must awe. We forget that the words awesome and terrible have such meanings and it is a great loss of vocabulary.<o:p></o:p>

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This movie is a tragedy. A deep and profound tragedy that rips your heart out to bleed along with one Korean family as it is destroyed family member by family member by the War.<o:p></o:p>

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As I sat in the theatre many times I was on the verge of crying, and I finally could not hold back at the end of the movie. The movie theatre was so hot and stifling and the screen relatively small, even with knowing I was “watching just a movie” I was moved to tears rolling down my cheeks. As I sat there with tears on my face, the lady next to me was crying and so was the man in front of me. Then I heard crying noises from around the whole theatre.<o:p></o:p>

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By the end of the film you have no choice but to adopt an adamant anti-war viewpoint or I swear your flesh is made of cold evil. This raises this movie to be a profound work of art – a film. Our experience is so intimate with these two brothers as their lives are torn to shreds is too much of an emotional drain for me to see the film a second time.<o:p></o:p>

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The film may be about war far away in time and place to many of us – <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region> in the 1950s. And far away in ideology – a war between Communism and Capitalism (or is it just a war against Communism?) – but this film is powerfully relevant. By placing the beginning and the ending of the film to be occurring right now we are forced to acknowledge that real people, real families – brothers, mothers, children, fathers, and grandmothers – these are the bodies that are murdered during a war. This film destroys the concept of the ‘enemy’. There is no enemy, only death.<o:p></o:p>

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Beware, if you are afraid of having your heart and mind altered, do not experience this film.<o:p></o:p>

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-Erik<o:p></o:p>

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Originally posted on LiveJournal