(Review) My way

Aku malas nk bagi sinopsis dia. Korang checkla kat bawah ni.

Tp yg pasti aku tersentuh dgn jalan cerita ni. Filem termahal korea ni bkn sekadar memaparkan elemen peperangan tetapi juga erti persahabatan yg tidak mengira darjat atau keturunan serta keazaman untuk mencapai impian.

Aku cakap; aku ingin menangis semahu-mahunya semasa aku tengok cerita ini. Kemudian otak rasional aku mula membisikkan aku, "weih, ini cuma ceritala. Jgn over sangat." Haha. Aku kembali semula ke realiti. Sejak bila aku jadi part of cerita ini aku tak tahulah. Yang pasti, aku sangat terkesan dengan cerita ini. Sebab tu aku jadi begini.

Walau dia jadi penarik beca ke, jadi tentera jepun ke, jadi tentera soviet Union ke, atau jadi tentera Jerman ke, Kim Jung Shik (Jang Dong gun) tetap dengan impiannya, menjadi pelari marathon. Dia tetap berlatih dimana-mana sahaja jua dia berada. Aku kagum dengan keazaman dan daya tahannya. Kebaikan hatinya juga membuatkan aku tersentuh. Kalau tak takkanla dia boleh berkawan dengan kolenel Tentera Jepun, merangkap 'rival'nya sendiri ? Aku juga admit, Tatsuo (Joe Odagiri), juga mempunyai 'charm'nya yg tersendiri. Dia telah menjayakan wataknya dengan baik.

Watak yg dilakonkan Fan Bing Bing juga mengesankan walau hanya seketika. Aku expect dia akan ada banyak lagi babak tp wataknya dimatikan selepas berjaya menumbangkan jet pejuang Soviet Union dgn mata helangnya. Dia ternyata seorang penembak yg tepat.

Overal, aku bukan hanya suka jalan cerita dia, aku juga suka nilai yg dibawanya.

Sekurang-kurangnya aku belajar perang tak membawa apa-apa kebaikan melainkan penderitaan, penindasan dan kebobrokan (aku belajar dari kwan aku yg ada keturunan jawa haha) semata-mata.

Aku sedih gak bila Kim Jung Shik tak dapat teruskan cita-citanya. Tapi itu tak bermakna Tatsuo tak boleh capai impian mereka bersama kan ?

Kisah ini memaparkan penamat yg gembira.

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Biar Encik wikipedia beritahu ceritanya camna. Orait ?

1928, Gyeong-seong (modern-day Seoul), Korea. Young Kim Jun-shik (Shin Sang-yeop), his father (Chun Ho-jin) and sister Eun-su (Jo Min-a) work on the farm of the Hasegawa family (Sano Shiro, Nakamura Kumi) in Japanese-occupied Korea. Both Jun-shik and young Hasegawa Tatsuo (Seong Yu-bin) are interested in running and by the time they are teenagers (Do Ji-han, Kobayashi Yukichi) are fierce competitors. Tatsuo's grandfather (Natsuyagi Isao) is killed in a bomb attack by a Korean freedom fighter and subsequently a Korean runner, Sohn Kee-chung (Yoon Hee-won), wins a marathon race against Japanese competitors, further inflaming Korean-Japanese tensions.

In May 1938, Jun-shik (Jang Dong-gun) is working as a rickshaw runner as Koreans are banned from taking part in sports events and Tatsuo (Joe Odagiri), now a fierce Japanese nationalist, has sworn that a Korean will never again win a race. Though he has been accepted by a medical college in Berlin, Tatsuo decides to stay in Korea to run in the All Japan Trials for the marathon. Sohn secretly backs Jun-shik and the latter wins the race, though Tatsuo is awarded the medal when Jun-shik is disqualified for allegedly cheating. Following a riot by Korean spectators, Jun-shik is among those - including his friend Lee Jong-dae (Kim In-kwon), who likes Eun-su (Lee Yeon-hee) - who are forcibly drafted into the Japanese army.

In July 1939 they find themselves, along with 100 other Koreans, in a battle at Nomonhan, on the Mongolian border, where a Chinese sniper, Shirai (Fan Bingbing), avenging the death of her family at the hands of the Japanese, is captured and tortured. Tatsuo, now a colonel, arrives and takes over command, forcing the existing commander, Takakura (Tsurumi Shingo), to commit hara-kiri. After refusing to join a suicide squad organized by Tatsuo to fight the Soviets, Jun-shik is imprisoned with Shirai but escapes with her, Jong-dae and two other friends to the River Khalkhin, where Shirai dies after shooting down a Soviet plane. Jun-shik tries to warn the Japanese forces that a large-scale Soviet tank attack is coming but in the ensuing battle Tatsuo refuses to order a retreat.

In February 1940 Jun-shik and Tatsuo end up in Kungursk POW camp, north of Perm, in the Soviet Union, where both Koreans and Japanese are incarcerated together. Under the name of Anton, Jong-dae has become a work-unit leader and helps his Korean friends, while Tatsuo is humiliated and almost killed by Jun-shik in a fight. When news comes that Germany has declared war on the Soviet Union, Jun-shik and Tatsuo are among those forcibly drafted into the Soviet army.

Following a bloody battle against the German army at Hedosk in December 1941, Jun-shik and Tatsuo set out on a journey westwards that will find them on the beaches of Normandy, France, just prior to the D-Day Allied invasion. As they run, Jun-shik is wounded by a bomb fragment in the chest. Jun-shik dies and tells Tatsuo that "He is now Jun-shik". Since Tatsuo is Japanese, he is an enemy of the Americans. Tatsuo is later seen running and winning the 1948 Olympic games then a flashback appears of their first encounter.