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Actors: Yeong-ae Lee, Ha-kyun Shin, Kang-ho Song
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Joint Security Area |
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JOINT SECURITY AREA is a Korean movie co-written and directed by Chan-wook Park in 2000. This picture was nominated for the Golden Bear of the 2001 Berlin Film Festival and must absolutely be rediscovered.
The setting is a sensitive point on the 38th parallel dividing the two Koreas. Two North Koreans soldiers have been killed during the night. A Swiss lawyer is sent in the DMZ in order to find out what has really happened that night as the reports of the survivors, a North Korean and a South Korean, are contradictory. It's a hard job for the young woman who must prevent that the situation deteriorates between the two countries.
After several questionings of the survivors, she will finally understand that the guards had become friends over the months and that they regularly met on the northern part of the frontier. But there are still unanswered questions. For instance, who else was present at the checkpoint when the shooting began?
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Somewhat obvious
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Legal/Political Thriller?
Yes
Political Plotlets:
- managing/preventing conflict with other nations
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 30%
Murders of set profession?
- soldiers
Kind of mystery?
- amateur citizen investigator
Legal Thriller Plotlets:
- military on trial
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Other Asian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Other Asian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- a lawyer creature
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Other Asian
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- the Koreas
Prairie?
Yes
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 3 ()
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- perforation--bullets
Non-American film?
Yes
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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