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JSA: Joint Security Area

South Korea 2000
produced by
Lee Eun Soo for CJ Entertainment, Intz.com, KTB Network, Myung Film Company
directed by Park Chan-wook
starring Lee Yeong-ae, Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho, Kim Tae-woo, Shin Ha-kyun, Christoph Hofrichter, Kim Tae-hyeon, Kim Myoeng-su, Herbert Ulrich
screenplay by Jeong Seong-san, Kim Hyeon-seok, Lee Mu-yeong, Park Chan-wook, based on a novel by Park Sang-yeon, music by Bang Jun-seok, Jo Yeong-wook

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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A shoot-out at the border between North and South Korea left 2 soldiers of the North Korean border patrol dead, but somehow a great deal about the shoot-out simply doesn't add up, like the fact that a South Korean soldier, Lee (Lee byung-hun), was kidnapped by the North Koreans, and another South Korean, Nam (Kim Tae-woo), tried to save him single handedly ... so, to prevent a war, the Neutral Nations Supervising Commission sends one of their top investigators, Sophie Jean (Lee Yeong-ae], a Korean woman born and raised in Switzerland, to investigate ... but at first she is met only by closed doors: The only North Korean who surived the incident, Oh (Song Kang-ho) sticks to his obviously made up story Sophie already has on file, Nam, the soldier who allegedly saved Lee from the North Koreans, throws himself out of a window when he is threatened with a lie-detector test, and Lee physically attacks Sophie soon afterwards.

Ultimately though, Sophie finds a few answers, like the fact that Nam and Lee at some point made friends with the North Korean soldiers, Oh and Yeong (Shin Ha-kyun), and at night often sneaked across the border to pay them a visit, play some cards and party a bit, making peace on the small scale that the politicians never managed to make on the big scale. however, this is interrupted when Oh's and Yeong's superior one day catches the South Korean's at the North Korean post and immediately wants to shoot them. Oh does his best to calm the situation, but eventually a shot is fired, and b efore you know it, Lee and Nam have killed Yeong and his superior in self defense. Oh helps them escape nevertheless out of friendship ...

These facts of course shed a whole new light on the case, but there is pretty little investigator Sophie can do anymore since she was taken off the case after Nam's suicide. There is just one thing that bothers her: That it was actually Lee who fired the first shot ... and eventually, Lee commits suicide because of it.

 

Not a bad thriller, but a bit overambitious: The film tries to be political commentary, political thriller and old-fashioned murder mystery all at once ... and falls shrt of its goals. Somehow the political baggage doesn't go too well together with genre specifications, and the great number of flashbacks just can't hide the fact that the story is not all that interesting (and could have done with a shorter running time. Still, not a bad film, just nothing to write home about.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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