You’re right, I worded that poorly. I went for snark over seriousness and it ended up a mess.

Just forget what I wrote:)

The previous movie, “Shiri”, just lamented the fact that Korea was divided into two countries. Tragic nature of star-crossed lovers coming from the enemy camps was quite believable.

However, in the movie, JSA, the writer and the producer are accusing SKs to be liars while making a hero out of NK soldier, who supposed to be more humane, more patriotic and more heroic.

NKs are Just a good people suffering under the bad system? Is it really?

At the beginning phase of Korean War, the same fuzzy feeling pervaded the SK. Thinking NKs are reasonable people (heck, five years prior to the war, we were the same people!) many in SK thought the war would bring unification. And, there was, I believe, intentional “defeats” and ?€œretreats?€? on the South military’s part.

However, when the commies came into Seoul and rounded up military officers and police officers and even their families, lined them up and shot them up without any mercy, SKs realized they are mistaken. When NKs took away all personal possessions from farming villages including the land and the seeds and made them the properties of the communist party, SKs realized the horror of the Communist system.

I am afraid this misperception about NKs being the “good” people and the communism being the alternative form of government is prevalent in SK once again. After all, we are the same people, they say. Would the NKs hurt their blood brothers, they wonder. The answer was already given in the Korean War.

The movie like JSA was made with an ulterior motive. The writer is obviously either a pro-North commie or a sentimental and delusional pacifist. There is no area in DMZ where the SK and NK soldiers can meet like in that movie. The whole thing is unrealistic and totally absurd. It is obvious everybody who worked on that movie never served in Korean military. Maybe in the prison for being pro-North sympathizers?

It is about time to call “killers” with the proper name. NKs, under naive belief in communism, played the role of Russian puppets and killed many during the Korean War. Now, as the underlings of China, they are again poised to kill many innocent people in this so-called NK nuke crisis.

The people who made JSA are just helping these commies to do just that.

Who they?

I think this might be two different theys.

Anyone know if the makers of Two Cops bought the story rights from Lethal Weapon?

I’ve met a quite a few Swiss and they all spoke pretty good English. Same with the Dutch I have met.

But even if her character might not speak English perfectly, given the character’s position, a viewer would expect her to speak English pretty well.

At the very least, she wouldn’t speak English like a Korean. She might speak Korean like a Korean, though, since her father (?) was a Korean native.

Oh yeah, that. That kind of bugged me too… I am usually more comfortable with native ______ people/actors acting out the character of their own nationality, yet, the objective of actors is that their supposed to act like someone they’re not, even if that means their own nationality. But they’re supposed to do it WELL. If Ms. Lee of JSA had been more fluent, it would not have been as discrepant (not like it’s an easy thing for her to pull off, but just making an observation).

Asian actors taking roles of characters of other nationalities isn’t *too* much different than caucasian actors doing the same…say, a real-life American actor (with German ancestry, if you will) takes the role of a Irish guy. Lots of actors all around do this, I guess. It’s their job. The Chinese actresses in Memoirs of Geisha, from what I understand, are mainly speaking in English (I don’t know how much Japanese is spoken in that; I guess we’ll have to see). Now the question is if their English is up to par. No matter what, they will still sound like Chinese people speaking english as opposed to a Japanese person doing the same thing…but who cares, right? Most Americans won’t notice, or care (They all look the same anyway, right? ;)) My point is that this kind of thing happens in cinema a lot, but sometimes it’s just waaaay too obvious (JSA).

I wanted to get that out of my system once and for all. I love watching movies and especially foreign movies these days (something else to explore other than Hollywood). Sorry for the rambling!

Agree that ??´?????? was totally unconvincing in her role of a half European (I think it was Swiss, but who cares, really…? The investigating is a mix of Swedish and Swiss, being neutral countries and all, and ??´??????’s name in the movie is Sophie Jean, which would lead us to believe she is impersonating a Swiss). The Korean population’s interest in/knowledge of the rest of the world is so dismal (what was that drama about ?œ???™???s studying in the States, where the actors spoke utterly bad English?) that they wouldn’t know anyway. Besides, it was about making a block-buster, not giving someone a chance… Not that Hollywood is much higher on the credibility scale (Chinese Geisha anyone?).

I loved the film, although I dislike that woman and I ain’t a big fan of ??´?³‘??Œ. But ?†¡?°???¸ is a great actor, and ??´?³‘??Œ did pull his thumb outta his cutesy ass on this one.