Brotherhood (2004)
(Taegukgi Hwinalrimyeo)
Country: KOR
Technical: col/scope 148m
Director: Kang Je-gyu
Cast: Jang Dong-gun, Won Bin, Lee Eun-ju
Synopsis:
As the bodies of Korean soldiers fallen during the 1950s war are exhumed and given a military funeral of honour, the brother of one of them looks back over what happened to his family and his world when he and his brother were drafted at the outbreak of the conflict.
Review:
Saving Private Lee, you might say, an impression enhanced by the sub-John Williams musical backing (lots of crooning choruses) and the digitally enhanced battlefield mayhem. Indeed the whole rather overlong enterprise resolves itself into a formless succession of bloody combats interspersed with the two siblings screaming at, punching or embracing one another. A notable local success at the box office, but none of the power of a film like Zhang Yimou's To Live, for example.
(Taegukgi Hwinalrimyeo)
Country: KOR
Technical: col/scope 148m
Director: Kang Je-gyu
Cast: Jang Dong-gun, Won Bin, Lee Eun-ju
Synopsis:
As the bodies of Korean soldiers fallen during the 1950s war are exhumed and given a military funeral of honour, the brother of one of them looks back over what happened to his family and his world when he and his brother were drafted at the outbreak of the conflict.
Review:
Saving Private Lee, you might say, an impression enhanced by the sub-John Williams musical backing (lots of crooning choruses) and the digitally enhanced battlefield mayhem. Indeed the whole rather overlong enterprise resolves itself into a formless succession of bloody combats interspersed with the two siblings screaming at, punching or embracing one another. A notable local success at the box office, but none of the power of a film like Zhang Yimou's To Live, for example.
(Taegukgi Hwinalrimyeo)
Country: KOR
Technical: col/scope 148m
Director: Kang Je-gyu
Cast: Jang Dong-gun, Won Bin, Lee Eun-ju
Synopsis:
As the bodies of Korean soldiers fallen during the 1950s war are exhumed and given a military funeral of honour, the brother of one of them looks back over what happened to his family and his world when he and his brother were drafted at the outbreak of the conflict.
Review:
Saving Private Lee, you might say, an impression enhanced by the sub-John Williams musical backing (lots of crooning choruses) and the digitally enhanced battlefield mayhem. Indeed the whole rather overlong enterprise resolves itself into a formless succession of bloody combats interspersed with the two siblings screaming at, punching or embracing one another. A notable local success at the box office, but none of the power of a film like Zhang Yimou's To Live, for example.