Military Issues In The Film 'The Unforgiven'

The movie “The Unforgiven” approached military issues in the most genuine and sensitive way. Not only does this movie illustrates military issues but how our society deals with such elements of morality and abusive powers. This movie merges perfectly with the conservative mindset of Koreans specially focusing an issue we all knew about but blindly covered with the excuse by saying “군대니깐”. The “army” is a perfect getaway of abusing power with no standard of being convicted as an crime, in addition, they use the army as an example of great obedience and loyalty and overall getting ready to become a “man”. 유태정 was the example of a masculine man being able to resist the pressure and was able to adapt to the army’s living style. Although he was no exception to experience the same stages as 이승영 and any other new solider when he was a newbie, the difference between 유태정 and 이승영 was clear that they both had different personalities by leaving 이승영 as the “weak” one and “foolish” because he wasn’t able to understand nor accept the way of the army’s system. …show more content…
The army is a place of strangers trying to complete their time, even though they empathise the importance of team work and to become a man, in reality it’s all about themselves. Yes, people can help others like how 유태정 helped 이승영 and how 이승영 helped 허지훈, but at the end we realize that there is a borderline to it. Meaning, everyone is different, they have different skills and talents, as we have different universities, majors, jobs and so on. However, even though the army offers different types of units, it’s still very limited and it doesn’t change the fact that the system is pretty much the