Adapted from Park Sang-yon’s novel DMZ, the movie tells the story of the truth and the friendship behind a shooting incident between four North and South Korean soldiers at the Joint Security Area near Panmunjom, showing the humanity and emotions between the North and South Korean soldiers.
The movie ends tragically, as the friendship of the four soldiers is destroyed by the interests of the country and the system, and their fates are sacrificed and forgotten, as one of the two South Korean soldiers commits suicide, the other attempts to commit suicide but is seriously injured, and the two die to protect the friendship that was secretly developed with the North Korean soldiers during their service.
The movie is both a humanistic exploration and a political satire. The same people, who originally played well with each other, had to draw their guns against each other because of ideological rivalry, so why bother?
In 2007, then South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun presented a DVD of the movie to Kim Jong-il during his visit to North Korea.
2000 / South Korea / Drama / Park Chan-wook / Lee Young-ae Lee Byung-hun
One day, a North Korean soldier (Shin Ha-kyun) is killed by an unknown bullet in the Joint Security Area at the border of Panmunjom, triggering a gun battle between the two sides.
The most suspected murderer is a South Korean soldier who is also on the border, but the South Korean side blames North Korea for starting the incident, and both sides hold their opponents responsible.
In order to solve this unsolved case, the North and the South have agreed that a neutral country will coordinate the investigation.
Sophie (Lee Young Ae), a Swiss-Korean girl, is sent to investigate the incident. While Lee Soo-Hyuk (Lee Byung-Hun) on the South Korean side remains silent, the North Korean survivor Oh Kyung-Bi (Song Kang-Ho) shows hostility, making things very confusing.
As she delves deeper, Sophie realizes that there is a hidden agenda, and that there is someone else at the scene. ……
