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White Badge 하얀전쟁 (1992) Final Battle Scene (Viet Cong vs ROK Army)

The climactic battle scene from the Korean film White Badge. North Vietnamese Army troops attack a Korean defensive position in the middle of the night. Film review by Truong Giang: South Korea lived through three decades of brutal military dictatorship with mass murder and torture of leftists and suspected communists (Jeju massacre, Bodo League massacre, Gwangju massacre, etc.; you can watch Park Kwang-su’s To The Starry Island, truly terrific work). South Korean troops were also directly responsible for multiple massacres throughout Central Vietnam in Vietnam War targeting unarmed civilians, mostly elders, women and children (Bình An massacre, Bình Hòa massacre, Diên Niên - Phước Bình massacre, Hà My massacre, Tây Vinh massacre, etc.; the death tolls in most of these massacres are nearly equal to the Mỹ Lai one, in case of Tây Vinh, the death toll reaches 1.200 victims), leaving most men in the villages to join Việt Cộng to avenge for their families (there is still a popular saying in Vietnam, “Ác như Đại Hàn”, which means “As evil as ROK soldiers”). Chung Ji-young is a fascinating figure of New Korean Cinema (along with Park Kwang-su) and his White Badge is a far more confrontational, uncompromising and honest work than most Vietnam War films. It doesn’t actually deal with the rampant anti-communist sentiments of ROK troops and South Korean politics, but it’s still very remarkable for three things (1) never once demonizes Việt Cộng, (2) never once whitewashes or justifies the artrocities commited by ROK army (the crucial killing event is deeply upsetting and unbearable), (3) never justifies the war with the fucking bullshit spreading “freedom and democracy” and understands that most Vietnamese people never want ROK or US army’s presence in the first place (that one particular on-the-nose scene with a Vietnamese old farmer somehow encapsulates precisely Vietnamese’s perspective of the war). This also has far better politics than I expected, with a frank acknowledgement of South Korea in the same way as Vietnam, a victim of American imperialism; and a scathing class critique of South Korea’s financial benefits from Vietnam War (the soldiers expects to earn money to have better lives at home country, but even after the war, the robust development of capitalist economy still leaves the wives of these soldiers to remain as strippers in US military bars, and none of these war survivors are able to take care of their families … all of these happen while the establishment is getting filthy rich from the war under the far-right military dictatorship). The whole system profits from the bloods of these soldiers and their crippling PTSD nightmares in the forms of their sensationalized memoirsnovels; and the very blunt ending that juxtaposes the image of war crimes committed by ROK army, and the image of police violently attacking the anti-war protestors student movement crowds, unable to distinguish these soldiers from the students, has both revealed the real face of the soldiers’ enemy and completed the central thesis about a murderous empire (in a quite similar manner with Gerima’s Ashes and Embers). In the end, a surviving soldier can only write a war novel from jail.