Welcome to Dongmakgol
Welcome to Dongmakgol was released in 2005 and is based on a stage play of the same name. The movie takes place in during the Korean War in the 1950s and surrounds five Korean soldiers, two South Korean soldiers and three North Korean soldiers, and an American pilot. The soldiers find themselves in a secluded village called Dongmakgol. This movie was extremely well done in my opinion. Many movies about war tend to have drab scenery coloring that resemble the sepia filter. However, I like that the movie has a lot of color in comparison to other war movies. This movie starts of intriguingly and with tension as they introduce the plot by depicting the crash landing of U.S. Navy pilot Neil Smith and the attack on the North …show more content…
The people of Dongmakgol represent the civilians of war, specifically the Korean War. The people of Dongmakgol live a very secluded, joyful, and carefree life and have no idea that there is a war going on but somehow get thrown into the middle of the growing antagonism between the South Korean soldiers and the North Korean soldiers. In the scene where the North Korean soldiers enter the village for the first time and see the South Korean soldiers, the two sides immediately begin the spew curses and threats to each other while pointing their guns at each other. All of this are happening in the midst of the villagers who have no idea why the two sides hate each other. They ultimately end up literally putting the villagers in the middle of their stand of. This scene can represent how the war between the two Koreas has put civilians in the middle of the war risking their lives and their livelihoods. The Korean War left an estimate of 2.5 million civilians either killed or wounded and thousands of casualties on both sides. All of these lives were taken or destroyed at the hands of a war they did not ask for. The fact the villagers are as ignorant as they are about the war adds on to the tragedy of their lives being at
Welcome to Dongmakgol was released in 2005 and is based on a stage play of the same name. The movie takes place in during the Korean War in the 1950s and surrounds five Korean soldiers, two South Korean soldiers and three North Korean soldiers, and an American pilot. The soldiers find themselves in a secluded village called Dongmakgol. This movie was extremely well done in my opinion. Many movies about war tend to have drab scenery coloring that resemble the sepia filter. However, I like that the movie has a lot of color in comparison to other war movies. This movie starts of intriguingly and with tension as they introduce the plot by depicting the crash landing of U.S. Navy pilot Neil Smith and the attack on the North …show more content…
The people of Dongmakgol represent the civilians of war, specifically the Korean War. The people of Dongmakgol live a very secluded, joyful, and carefree life and have no idea that there is a war going on but somehow get thrown into the middle of the growing antagonism between the South Korean soldiers and the North Korean soldiers. In the scene where the North Korean soldiers enter the village for the first time and see the South Korean soldiers, the two sides immediately begin the spew curses and threats to each other while pointing their guns at each other. All of this are happening in the midst of the villagers who have no idea why the two sides hate each other. They ultimately end up literally putting the villagers in the middle of their stand of. This scene can represent how the war between the two Koreas has put civilians in the middle of the war risking their lives and their livelihoods. The Korean War left an estimate of 2.5 million civilians either killed or wounded and thousands of casualties on both sides. All of these lives were taken or destroyed at the hands of a war they did not ask for. The fact the villagers are as ignorant as they are about the war adds on to the tragedy of their lives being at