real life communication between NK and SK troops

This movie was made in 2000 maybe some rules changed and Kim Jong Il wanted to be a little nice for a change or as i like to call him the Nutty North Korean Guy

I'm sure southies are taking shots at the North too.

Arent you scared i mean if you are a south korean i would be *beep* scared knowing for a fact that there is north korean artillery facing seoul and that it could start firering at any moment.

i think anything is possible, the point that the film made was that the security was tense but fairly limited in the early hours of the morning

going from 1984, 31 years after cease fire, and saying that it'd be exactly the same 16 years later, 47 years after cease fire is simply stupid.

places change, people change, countries change, i think the fact that koreans made this film, says that, perhaps, they have a better understanding, and knowledge of the border and patrols etc than you, i'm sure they wouldnt have wasted such attention to detail in making a replica of jsa, only to *beep* it up by making it completely unrealistic.

plus the light heartedness of some of the soldiers, compared to the rigidity of others, is plain, and bold. the divide in personalities, and the divide in countries is prominent.

and finally my opinion of this film is that along with so many other sk attempts at peace, it's trying to lesson the severity of the situation, and nk's opinion of sk, with its soft attempt.

a truly amazing piece of cinema.

Would the guardhouses be placed in such a way to give continual views of that specific area? My understanding was that these guys sort of were the guardhouse for that section, and while I know it makes sense to set up the points so as to be within view (it's something they've done since medieval times and before, setting castles within sight of each other so if one's attacked everyone will know), but the truth is even if towers on both sides could see this watch-post I don't know that the chances of one person being seen would be all that high. At least for a person who would be aware of what the procedure was for watching...I know for me where I work there's cameras everywhere but it wouldn't be very difficult to slip through blind spots if I know where all of them are. I could see the banter without much issue, the characters differ but there's stories in every conflict in human history of exceptions to the rule, German officers who befriended and saved Jewish prisoners and that sort of thing. People are still individuals, so it's not inconceivable that there are SK and NK who aren't AS hostile as others.

*shrug* it's definitely not likely with the popping back and forth, you could probably get away with tossing the letters like they do initially and I wouldn't be surprised if someone could manage to get across, but doing it consistently without getting caught (not to mention the other guys just "leaving their station" for hours at a time without getting caught) would be tough, getting lucky once or twice and making a habit of it are two different things. To their credit they don't imply it's normal in the film, the protagonists react to it as though it's really, really uncommon actually (when Lee Soo Hyuk first goes over there they have guns drawn and act like it's the first Southerner to be there in 50 years)

All around though, it's a fictional drama set in a real locale to give believability to the story. He could have done a futuristic sci-fi about two star empires separated for centuries with a similar basic plot line and it'd still have been a solid movie I think so long as the acting and mood and everything else were held onto

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Its actually not that obivous, do tell...there is a common south korean beer called Tiger beer by the way...

I think you might have missed the fact that the sergeants that exchange cigarettes are the same sgts. that become friends.