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"Welcome To Dongmakgol" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 02/16/2012
During the Korean war, three surviving members of a PKA unit, two South Korean deserters and an injured American pilot all find themselves in a remote village where the inhabitants lead an idyllic life and know nothing of the outside world. Welcome to Dongmakgol is the kind of pleasant surprise that fuels my love of world cinema. It's a very different approach to the genre of the war film and as such feels really fresh and engaging. It shares similar themes to many other films, most notably Witness in that it's a story of people of violence learning a simpler, more rewarding way of life, The Thin Red Line in the way it contrasts the lives of "uncivilized" people bemused by the hatred people who are otherwise complete strangers breed for each other without really knowing the real reasons …
