Yet another touching and worth-watching military based movie of South Korea!

Was switching channels yesterday nite and happened to watch this GREAT military based story of South Korea called Silimdo (실미도). As there were no subtitles I dun really understand what these guys were talking about bt still feel that its a worth-watching movie so I went online to search for it. True enuff the plot of the story was interesting and was watching it at DAWN 2am today. Its a long movie 135mins bt definitely worth WATCHING!

If you are also interested in war type of movie then you should give it a try! Certain parts of the movie r based on true story while some are made up of. After watching this movie, you can really feel that some people r really SICK to the core and selfish to kill others/ eliminate to attain his/her own needs!

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, I salute TO ALL THE SOLDIERS out there who's fight for PEACE!!

A short synopsis of the movie:

January 1968, 31 members of North Korean Special Unit 124 infiltrated South Korea with the ultimate mission of assassinating President Park Chung-hee. In a retaliatory move, the South composed the Silmido Special Unit of dysfunctional social outcasts and criminals under death or life sentences. Their classified mission: explode the North Korean presidential palace and behead Kim Il-sung. They survive the most hellish inhumane ‘killing’ training and are reborn as human armories. However, the project is suddenly revoked and while the hellish training continues there is no more mission. The psychological frustration and physical tolerance start to reach their limits and soon the members start to lose their focus and unity. Then in 1970, with a growing peacemaking movement between the North and the South, the government decides to demolish the Unit and executes all its members ...

Interesting facts of this movie:

At the end of its run, the film was the most watched film ever in South Korea, and the first film to attract an audience of 10 million viewers in the country. The film Taegukgi later broke its record in 2004, and then The King and the Clown with additional 2 million in 2006.

The truth is that Special Unit 684 was not composed of criminal and outcasts.

Release date: 24 Dec 2003

You can watch it on crunchyroll HERE

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