Three main characters in this drama are 윤여옥, 장하림, and 최대치. 여옥 is a poor girl who became a member of 정신대. She lost all dignity and had no will to survive. Then she met 최대치, a Korean student-soldier, who gave her the REASON and WILL to survive. 최대치 is another poor man, who had to fight for Japs in the jungle of Burma. He survived and rescued by a Korean communist in China. Perhaps 여옥 gave him the REASON and WILL to survive.
After liberation, he became a high-rank officer of North Korean Army (인민군) and later participated in the 육이오 military campaign.
장하림 is relatively lucky one who attracted three pretty women (ㅎㅎ) throughout the drama. Like 최대치, he also had to join Japs army. Because of his background in medicine, he was involved in the preparation of Japanese germ warfare at Saipan where he met 여옥 and helped her labor. Then the destiny made him an agent of the US intelligence.
After 인천상륙작전, the war was dragging, as Chinese Communist Army (중공군) involved. 최대치 was isolated in 지리산 and became a leader of partisans (빨치산). A truce was finally signed (휴전선 was drawn), and the partisans had no hope to join the main forces from North Korea. They were gradually wiped out in 지리산 by 장하림-led 전경. 여옥 helped 대치 secretly, purely because of personal reason (husband). Finally, 여옥 and 대치 got together, while 하림 was watching them dying of gun shot.
I am not good at film critique, but if I can enjoy watching it second time, it should be a good one. After watching this, I have thought of my life, which made so many turns to be 'NOW'. "What if I was not there at that time? What if I made a different choice on that occasion?". There could be so many "What ifs" that could change my life path. So should I believe in 'destiny'?
For our Korean-American generation, this drama is a very good resource for teaching "ideology, World War II in Asia, and Korean history under Japanese occupation and after liberation". English subtitle is excellent and kids will have no problem of understanding the storyline. I certainly recommend it.
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