71-Into the Fire

Hey watchers! ^^Guess what? This week I had my mock oral exam, because I'm in my last year of middle school now. Oral exams suck and they are pretty much the thing most of the norwegian students hate. We only have our oral exams in one subject though, and we are randomly picked for a subject(if that made any sense). Now all my friends and me are dreading the day we get picked for a subject because there is a chance we end up with foreign language -.- People here will cry if they get foreign language. But I was lucky! I ended up with english! English is maybe the best subject you could get, other than religion and spirituality of course. And when I was gonna draw my assignment for the exam I drew the Cold War. At first I was stressed because this assignment is rather difficult and it requires a lot of knowledge. But it was all good when I decided to concentrate my presentation on the Korean War and even more specific the Student soldiers from SK. Because little did I know there was an amazing movie made about the student soldiers called 71-Into the Fire. I started watching the movie, to get inspiration for my presentation when I noticed that the main character was none other that T.O.P from Big Bang! I thought I'd do a little review of the movie for you:)

First of all T.O.P in this movie was great in general, and I was pleasantly surprised by his acting. But(and I know many will argue, but I'm gonna write it anyways) I'm not sure he was the best actor for this part.. Now, from everything I've learned about the Korean War and the student soldiers they're supposed to be brave, young men who had a horrible fate. And honestly I think someone who looked more young and innocent would be a better pick for the part of Oh Jung-Beom. I'm not saying that top is necessarily old looking, but he does have a rather original face with strong facial features, and I think that is partly why I almost didn't get that he was a student at first.

Another thing that bugged me about the film was that there was no real romance. Now I know the theme wasn't supposed to be romantic either(It's a film about a group of boys fighting a war after-all). But the nurse who seems to take an interest in him is a really misleading part. It's like they're leading you on to think that she will matter, but then she just doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the story whatsoever(there's not even a flashback or something!). The part with the woman also just seems a little unnecessary to me, like they just added that to fill in a couple of more minutes..

But all in all I have to admit that this movie was really touching and inspiring. These guys fought a war, and I'm sitting on my laptop all day.. you know? This movie was much more entertaining than I thought it was gonna be, since I'm not a huge war movie lover. I would reccomend this movie to everyone, weather your'e looking for a good war movie or just looking for T.O.P dressed as a super cute 16-year old(I think) schoolboy!