Synopsis:
In 1950, in South Korea, shoe-shiner Jin-tae Lee and his 18-year-old old student brother, Jin-seok Lee, form a poor but happy family with their mother, Jin-tae’s fiancé Young-shin Kim, and her young sisters. Jin-tae and his mother are tough workers, who sacrifice themselves to send Jin-seok to the university. When North Korea invades the South, the family escapes to a relative’s house in the country, but along their journey, Jin-seok is forced to join the army to fight in the front, and Jin-tae enlists too to protect his young brother. The commander promises Jin-tae that if he gets a medal he would release his brother, and Jin-tae becomes the braver soldier in the company. Along the bloody war between brothers, the relationship of Jin-seok with his older brother deteriorates leading to a dramatic and tragic end.

Extras

6.25 and Us

Inspiration and Creation

Making History

Pictures

Storyboard

The People Behind the Camera

The Resolution of Tae Guk Gi People

War Project

3.85GB | 2 h 28 min | 1024×440 | mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/81B601F0878E2C0/Taegukgi_hwinalrimyeo_AKA_Tae_Guk_Gi_The_Brotherhood_of_War.part6.rar
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Language:Korean
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish, Czech, Dutch, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Vietnamese (muxed)

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Quote:
Perhaps the reason why this movie is getting such a bad rap is mainly a fault of its well-meaning, but still incoherent style and narrative structure. I have not read any articles on this movie or interviews with the director to know what his overt intention was, but in the end I think the movie falls short of its mark due to Kim’s perennial fixation on obsession, whether it was his intention to delve into this subject matter or not. On most levels, obsession is a largely private affair, and any exegesis of obsession enmeshed within the loaded geopolitical situation that is now Korea would require a broader vision and canvas matched with a technical command of story telling than any that Kim has been able to provide here or elsewhere. However, one thing that I must praise Kim for is the reality with which he portrays military life in South Korea. It is, in my view, the grittiest, down-to-other depiction on the silver-screen of life as a grunt doing mandatory military service in Korea. I should know, since I’ve done my two years’ service, as no doubt Kim also has. The situation might be unreal (a loose-cannon grunt suddenly acquiring the killing skills of Jason Bourne) but the military’s reaction to it certainly wasn’t. The ineptitude of the commanders to stop the problem, the fear of the soldiers and the conflict it breeds within, and, most important of all, the corporal punishment that gets amplified as it spreads down the chain of command.

1.67GB | 1h 35m | 853×480 | mkv

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Language:Korean
Subtitles:English

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