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The Flying Taegeuk Flag

Korean movie "The Flying Taegeuk Flag"

Release year: 2004

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Also known as: / Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War

In the spring of 1950, on the eve of the outbreak of the Korean Civil War, Zhentai (played by Zhang Dongjian) lived in a house in Seoul In an ordinary family, after her mother and father passed away, she lived with her stepmother and younger brother who were sick in bed all year round. Zhentai struggled to support his entire family by going to the streets every day to repair people's shoes. After marrying his fiancée Yingshun (played by Li Yinzhu), his biggest wish was to send his younger brother to college. His younger brother Jinxi (played by Won Bin) is studying in high school. He is very eager to be admitted to college so that his brother, sister-in-law and stepmother can live a good life in the future.

Summer is here, and the war breaks out on June 25. In Seoul, where Zhentai lives, nothing changes at first. He still goes to the streets to repair people's shoes. However, the next day, his younger brother Zhenxi came back from school, bringing with him the shocking news of the outbreak of war. Soon, Zhonglu, the street where they lived, became tense, and the atmosphere of war spread here. The previously bustling streets were filled with trumpets and slogans of pre-war mobilization, and trucks full of soldiers roared by all day long...< /p>

The strength of this film is unprecedented for Korean films. It is not only the full-scale masterpiece of Kang Je-gyu, a great Korean director who has his own film company, following the 5-year absence from "The Spy", but also two It stars South Korea's most popular male superstars and has a strong investment and production team.

Obviously, "The Flying Taigeuk Flag" has huge ambitions in addition to these super productions. It not only wants to depict the most important war that affected Korean history, but also show the brothers and sisters of ordinary people in the war. The emotions, but also the disasters that the war brought to the people of North and South Korea...

In order to highlight the effect of the Civil War in the film, the director of photography Hong Jinbiao used a shooting technique similar to Zhang Yimou's "Hero" to "Flying the Taegeuk Flag" "is divided into four, using 4 methods to shoot the 4 major battle scenes in the film. It just so happens that these major scenes are the turning points of the film. The first battle uses a completely large-scale approach to highlight the live feeling of the war and quickly pull the audience into the war environment of the film. The second battle centered on Zhentai, with a large number of gunfights and fighting scenes highlighting the real cruelty of the details; the third battle was a street fight in Pyongyang, with run-and-gun bombings and people fleeing for their lives highlighting the disasters caused by the war; the fourth battle was It is a highland conflict, a purely brutal physical battle, and the scenes are thrilling...

Unlike Chinese movies, whether commercial or artistic, popular or niche, which like to exploit the "problems" of the people, Korean movies regardless of Whether it is comedy, farce, action drama, or love drama, they all demonstrate a strong national complex, and "The Flying Taegeuk Flag", which is based on the Civil War, the most important historical event of the Korean nation, takes their national complex to the extreme. . The depiction of the thickness of history and the reflection on war are all condensed under the national complex. From the large-scale war scenes to the emotional scenes in the details, the audience can undoubtedly feel this strongly. This is also the attraction of this film. A dominant emotional tone.

"The Flying Taegeuk Flag" follows the successful model of Hollywood war blockbusters, starting from the general emotional tone to the specific shooting and production, combining a large number of war scenes with touching human details, and sparing no expense on the real scenes The involvement of 1/3 CG computer technology in the shooting and post-production makes it an audio-visual viewing experience that is no less than that of American blockbusters.