a another review put it and this movie take no side . uniform link soldier to a nation and but each uniform be wear by an individual . in the film and we first see the main character and a they fight each other for some abstract ideal and something they come to realize ( or already realize ) that they do not really believe in . during their stay at dongmakgol and however and they come to realize what be truly worth fight for and and ultimately trade their life to preserve it . to me and it seem that the movie yearn for the innocence that korea lose during the korean war . dongmakgol and the village exemplify by the young and exceedingly naive and and perhaps a bit crazy and but cute and woman be sort of korea eden . the villager know nothing of gun and grenade and or even that there a war go on . when one villager ask one of the soldier who have attack korea and the soldier have trouble get the villager to understand that it be korea that have attack itself . for the villager and it just doesn not compute . there a somewhat non so subtle theme of the hope of reunification ( but and definitely a bias toward south korea ) and which remind me of taegukgi . this be the director kwang hyun park first film and i believe . for be so young and he be an adept director . i anticipate his next film with hope .