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Video Link (in HD!!)
http://www.youtube.com/wat
CREDIT:wait4ba http://www.youtube.com/use
Synopsis:
In 1950, in South Korea, shoe-shiner Jin-tae Lee and his 18-year-old old student brother, Jin-seok Lee, form a poor but happy family with their mother, Jin-tae's fiancé Young-shin Kim, and her young sisters. Jin-tae and his mother are tough workers, who sacrifice themselves to send Jin-seok to the university. When North Korea invades the South, the family escapes to a relative's house in the country, but along their journey, Jin-seok is forced to join the army to fight in the front, and Jin-tae enlists too to protect his young brother. The commander promises Jin-tae that if he gets a medal he would release his brother, and Jin-tae becomes the braver soldier in the company. Along the bloody war between brothers, the relationship of Jin-seok with his older brother deteriorates leading to a dramatic and tragic end.
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My take:
ok, so i've been searching for this movie last year when a friend recommended it to me but I couldn't find a working video anywhere, so imagine my excitement when while searching for youtube clips of Mother (another Won Bin film), i found that someone uploaded the whole movie a few months ago, in HD glory! So i went ahead and loaded the clips and prepared myself to enjoy a really good movie. Onset of the film, it was straightaway enthralling, so absorbed was i that i didn't realized i haven't turned on the cc cap yet and was watching the movie unsubbed til maybe about 4mins into it. A minute after, in fact even before the timer hits 5:00, I'm already crying..by half hour into the movie, am already letting out a stream of profanities..(which i sometimes do when the scene is too much too handle). Gosh! this is easily one of the best war movies ever made. In a nutshell, as posted in my FB:
"Platoon + Saving Private Ryan + 71:Into The Fire = Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War x 5. rating F: most number of F* uttered in a single movie. Best War Movie ever, and that's still an understatement (for me)"
On a side note, with what just happened lately between N. Korea and S. Korea, i think it's timely that both sides watch a film like this and be reminded that nobody ever wins in a war, NOBODY.
P.S.
After watching the film, i looked it up on wikipedia and discovered it was directed by the same guy who did Shiri, a Korean movie i saw about a decade ago, when I was in college. It made such an impression on me that the one time I was on the same flight with some Koreans (who were here for religious purposes, this was when i was working already), I asked the one beside me what Shiri means, she then in turn asked her companions and that's how I found out it's a kind of fish. If you do spare the time to watch taegukgi, watch Shiri too, and then Mother. Oh, Won Bin, no wonder even celebs are crushing on you. such a great actor.^^
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