very expressive films and well executed, though the term is not excellent (about an hour but the film was clearly cut due era censorship) has managed not only to involve me but also made me think. Certainly the film has a clear "anti-communist" message and the war is only a frame of the story. The war seen through the eyes of two children who act like brother and sister, both looking (useless) of parents. The movie makes you think as I said earlier, because the war did not spare anyone, not even the children, who are the first to be a victim and to pay the costs. Beautiful scene when they try to boil the potatoes wild over a land mine, the scene is very strong and at the same time very intense and manages to give the suspense to the viewer, (a land mine is not a trivial matter ...) the director this has worked very cleverly found! Summing up I can say that it is a good movie, the 60 for South Korea accounted cinematically speaking its peak and despite the complaints filmmakers could still produce very thick films like this ....!
4 Reviews
Best movie about war because it doesn't take any sides.
singxuan16 June 2020
Usually in War movies it's always about who is good and who is bad.
This movie just show two kids in the middle of the war. The director intention was to show we all have been children once and children shouldn't grow up with war.
More you follow those kids the more anger you feel about war.
War is the worst humans has created and we should watch this movie as teaching.
This movie just show two kids in the middle of the war. The director intention was to show we all have been children once and children shouldn't grow up with war.
More you follow those kids the more anger you feel about war.
War is the worst humans has created and we should watch this movie as teaching.
So sad
euroasiangenetic22 November 2018
This is probably the most strongest 60s movies I have seen, a story of the Korean border viewed by two children, children who try to be children in the middle of a mine field.
A little child girl Yong Ah is lost in the nature in the northern side of the DMZ border, she has lost everything except a memory of her mother who is in the southern side of the DMZ border. She befriended another child a boy who prefer her to call him brother. Together they join forces and go on adventures to cross the other side of the border.
The kids do a great job getting the movie alive. Start like a child play but further they go more seriously the situation becomes. It's like the director wants to teach us about evil of war through the eyes of two children and it's brilliant. 10/10.
A little child girl Yong Ah is lost in the nature in the northern side of the DMZ border, she has lost everything except a memory of her mother who is in the southern side of the DMZ border. She befriended another child a boy who prefer her to call him brother. Together they join forces and go on adventures to cross the other side of the border.
The kids do a great job getting the movie alive. Start like a child play but further they go more seriously the situation becomes. It's like the director wants to teach us about evil of war through the eyes of two children and it's brilliant. 10/10.
Cooking on a landmine, delineate the borders of your own country by weeing in a circle; this is a naive tale of the Korean tragedy
Atavisten2 April 2011
'Demilitarized Zone' is not unlike the Japanese 'Grave of the Fireflies,' but instead of being based in a post-nuclear bomb attack in Hiroshima it is based in the split Koreas. The chemistry between the two are similar and in both movies they try to survive by their own means.
In it the older brother takes care of his sister in the wasteland between Republic of Korea and Democratic Republic of Korea.
With child actors and a simple story it doesn't offer much to modern audiences that doesn't have a strong relation to the division of the countries themselves. But if you love children and/or are sentimental you might enjoy this.
For others it might be too naive, might have too much crying or simply be irrelevant.
In it the older brother takes care of his sister in the wasteland between Republic of Korea and Democratic Republic of Korea.
With child actors and a simple story it doesn't offer much to modern audiences that doesn't have a strong relation to the division of the countries themselves. But if you love children and/or are sentimental you might enjoy this.
For others it might be too naive, might have too much crying or simply be irrelevant.
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