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* ManOnFire: Seen as the men in the Lees' unit are bombarded outside of Pusan.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jin-seok survives, returns home to his mother, and lives out a full life up to the present day, but Jin-tae died to save him, and the trauma of the war still affects him so much that he begs his dead brother's remains to speak to him.]]
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''Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War'' is a 2003 film from UsefulNotes/{{South Korea}}, directed by Je-kyu Kang, telling the story of two brothers caught up in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar.
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''Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War'' is a 2003 2004 film from UsefulNotes/{{South Korea}}, directed by Je-kyu Kang, telling the story of two brothers caught up in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar.
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* ZergRush: The Chinese army's entry into the war is shown by thousands upon thousands of soldiers swarming the hills, forcing the U.N. coalition into a full retreat.
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* AnyoneCanDie: We know from the get go that [[spoiler:Jin-seok]] survived the war. However, [[spoiler:Jin-tae, Young-shin, Yong-man, Yong-seok]] and many more aren't so lucky.
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* AnyoneCanDie: We know from the get go that [[spoiler:Jin-seok]] survived the war. However, [[spoiler:Jin-tae, Young-shin, Yong-man, Yong-seok]] and many more aren't so lucky.
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* UsefulNotes/ColdWar : Entire Korean War fall under this trope as North Korea and South Korea became a proxy war for Communist Countries (USSR and China) and America respectively.
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* UsefulNotes/ColdWar : UsefulNotes/ColdWar: Entire Korean War fall under this trope as North Korea and South Korea became a proxy war for Communist Countries (USSR and China) and America respectively.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Deconstructed viciously when Jin-tae's battalion attack a North Korean stronghold and kill every communist soldier they can find, in revenge for the village massacre. While the South Koreans' rage is perfectly justified, it's pretty clear they've become just as bad as their enemies. The communists are trying to surrender while being butchered, and it's unclear if they're even the ones who slaughtered the village in the first place. It all comes across as a manifestation of the fraticidal brutality unique to civil wars.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Deconstructed viciously when Jin-tae's battalion attack a North Korean stronghold and kill every communist soldier they can find, in revenge for the village massacre. While the South Koreans' rage is perfectly justified, it's pretty clear they've become just as bad as their enemies. The communists are trying to surrender while being butchered, and it's unclear if they're even the ones who slaughtered the village in the first place. It all comes across as a manifestation of the fraticidal fratricidal brutality unique to civil wars.
* SociopathicSoldier: Jin-tae gradually goes from being a NiceGuy to a broken soldier after witnessing and partaking in so much horror during the war. By the time Jin-Soek meets him again, [[spoiler: Jin-tae has turned into a psychotic killing machine for the North Koreans, who fights because he enjoys taking lives.]]
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* SociopathicSoldier: Jin-tae gradually goes from being a NiceGuy to a broken soldier after witnessing and partaking in so much horror during the war. By the time Jin-Soek meets him again, [[spoiler: Jin-tae has turned into a psychotic killing machine for the North Koreans, who fights because he enjoys taking lives.]]
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: The South Korean soldiers come across the aftermath of a terrible massacre of villagers, both young and old, by the North Koreans. It gets worse after the South Koreans discover that certain bodies are booby-trapped, leaving two of their men critically injured. The South Koreans, especially Jin-tae, respond with a RoaringRampageOfRevenge up to the Chinese border, viciously killing every North Korean soldier they find, even if they're begging for their lives and trying to surrender.
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* MatchCut: The fifty-year TimeSkip near the end. [[spoiler: With Jin-tae's motionless, prone body after his HeroicSacrifice cutting to fifty years later, as a skeleton]].
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* TalkingToTheDead: The film's final scene - [[spoiler: the now-elderly Jin-seok uncovering his brother's skeleton, whom had died fifty years ago, and pleading for Jin-tae to speak to him]].
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* NotSoDifferent: Jin-seok accuses Jin-tae of this when Jin-tae is about to execute a group of North Korean prisoners that includes one of their old friends. Within the film itself, both sides are shown to be willing to commit terrible massacres.
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Jin-seok accuses Jin-tae of this when Jin-tae is about to execute a group of North Korean prisoners that includes one of their old friends. Within the film itself, both sides are shown to be willing to commit terrible massacres.
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Lee Jin-tae and Lee Jin-seok are brothers who live with their mother in the family noodle shop in UsefulNotes/{{Seoul}}. Jin-tae has a side business with a shoe-shine stand, and is working to send his bookish younger brother Jin-seok to college. Jin-tae is also engaged to pretty Young-shin, who works at the noodle shop. This happy life is ruined on June 25, 1950, when UsefulNotes/NorthKoreansWithNodongs invade South Korea, starting the Korean War. Jin-seok is forcibly conscripted into the South Korean army, and when his brother tries to pull him off the train, Jin-tae is conscripted too. An officer promises Jin-tae that if he can win the Order of Military Merit, South Korea's highest military decoration, he can get a discharge for his brother. Jin-tae then begins to seek out the most dangerous missions in order to win that medal, but his pursuit of glory alienates his unsuspecting little brother.
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Lee Jin-tae (Creator/JangDongGun) and Lee Jin-seok (Creator/WonBin) are brothers who live with their mother in the family noodle shop in UsefulNotes/{{Seoul}}. Jin-tae has a side business with a shoe-shine stand, and is working to send his bookish younger brother Jin-seok to college. Jin-tae is also engaged to pretty Young-shin, who works at the noodle shop. This happy life is ruined on June 25, 1950, when UsefulNotes/NorthKoreansWithNodongs invade South Korea, starting the Korean War. Jin-seok is forcibly conscripted into the South Korean army, and when his brother tries to pull him off the train, Jin-tae is conscripted too. An officer promises Jin-tae that if he can win the Order of Military Merit, South Korea's highest military decoration, he can get a discharge for his brother. Jin-tae then begins to seek out the most dangerous missions in order to win that medal, but his pursuit of glory alienates his unsuspecting little brother.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Jin-tae, who became a North Korean berserker after the death of his girlfriend and thinking his brother died too at the hands of his own former Southern allies.]]
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Jin-tae, who became a North Korean berserker after the death of his girlfriend and thinking his brother died too at the hands of his own former Southern allies.]]]]
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* EliteMooks: The North Korean Red Flag units, which turnss the tide of the battle into their favour. [[spoiler: Jint-tae is their leader.]]
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* EliteMooks: The North Korean Red Flag units, which turnss the tide of the battle into their favour. [[spoiler: Jint-tae Jin-tae is their leader.]]
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* EliteMooks: The North Korean Red Flag units, which turnss the tide of the battle into their favour. [[spoiler: Jint-tae is their leader.]]
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* HeroAntagonist: At some notable occasions the South Korean military acted as this towards the leading brothers and mostly got the upper hand over them, whether it is to forcibly conscript them within the ranks, the militia trying stop them for trying to interfere with their execution of communist collaborators by rescuing [[spoiler:Young-shin and finally the prison commander ordering the cells destroyed with Jin-seok inside. All of this culminated in Jin-tae defecting to the North due to his and his friends' and family's mistreatment and eventual deaths, except Jin-seok who actually lived, at the hands of the South Koreans.]]
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* MoralityPet: Young-shin and Jin-seok are this for Jin-tae as even though he is gradually becoming a SociopathicSoldier as a result of HeWhoFightsMonsters, the former are the reason why has not started JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope as anchors for his sanity and morals. [[spoiler:When Young-shin is executed and Jin-seok is thought to have been burned to death, Jin-tae defects to the North and becomes their personal killing machine of an AxCrazy SociopathicSoldier as a result.]]
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* MoralityPet: Young-shin and Jin-seok are this for Jin-tae as even though he is gradually becoming a SociopathicSoldier as a result of HeWhoFightsMonsters, the former two are the reason why has not started JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope as anchors for his sanity and morals. [[spoiler:When Young-shin is executed and Jin-seok is thought to have been burned to death, Jin-tae defects to the North and becomes their personal killing machine of an AxCrazy SociopathicSoldier as a result.]]
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* MoralityPet: Young-shin and Jin-seok are this for Jin-tae. [[spoiler:When Young-shin is executed and Jin-seok is thought to have been burned to death, Jin-tae defects to the North and becomes their personal killing machine of an AxCrazy SociopathicSoldier as a result.]]
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* MoralityPet: Young-shin and Jin-seok are this for Jin-tae.Jin-tae as even though he is gradually becoming a SociopathicSoldier as a result of HeWhoFightsMonsters, the former are the reason why has not started JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope as anchors for his sanity and morals. [[spoiler:When Young-shin is executed and Jin-seok is thought to have been burned to death, Jin-tae defects to the North and becomes their personal killing machine of an AxCrazy SociopathicSoldier as a result.]]
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* MoralityPet: Young-shin and Jin-seok are this for Jin-tae. [[spoiler:When Young-shin is executed and Jin-seok is thought to have been burned to death, Jin-tae defects to the North as a result.]]
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* MoralityPet: Young-shin and Jin-seok are this for Jin-tae. [[spoiler:When Young-shin is executed and Jin-seok is thought to have been burned to death, Jin-tae defects to the North and becomes their personal killing machine of an AxCrazy SociopathicSoldier as a result.]]
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:After his girlfriend is executed by South Korean militia]], and after [[spoiler:erroneously thinking his brother was also killed by South Koreans, Jin-tae]] goes over to the North.
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:After his girlfriend is executed by South Korean militia]], and after [[spoiler:erroneously thinking his brother was also killed by South Koreans, Koreans which would have [[ShootTheShaggyDog made his efforts to send him home safe and sound for nothing]], Jin-tae]] goes over to the North.
* MoralityPet: Young-shin and Jin-seok are this for Jin-tae. [[spoiler:When Young-shin is executed and Jin-seok is thought to have been burned to death, Jin-tae defects to the North as a result.]]
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* WarMemorial: The film begins here, in the present day.
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* WarMemorial: The film begins here, in the present day.day.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Jin-tae, who became a North Korean berserker after the death of his girlfriend and thinking his brother died too at the hands of his own former Southern allies.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Jin-tae, who became a North Korean berserker after the death of his girlfriend and thinking his brother died too at the hands of his own former Southern allies.]]
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In order to fight the communist threat and reacting to communist atrocities, the South Korean military dipped down to this level, committing atrocities of their own. Jin-tae's BigBrotherInstinct also had corrupted him in battle.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In order to fight the communist threat and reacting to communist atrocities, the South Korean military dipped down to this level, committing atrocities of their own. Jin-tae's BigBrotherInstinct also had corrupted him in battle.battle as he regularly partook in such atrocities.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jin-tae]] mans a gun turret to give [[spoiler:Jin-seok]], and the fleeing South Korean army, time to escape.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jin-tae]] mans a heavy machine gun turret to give [[spoiler:Jin-seok]], and the fleeing South Korean army, time to escape.
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* InspectorJavert: The South Korean militia [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity towards the innocent Communist collaborators]].
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* InspectorJavert: The South Korean militia [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity towards the innocent Communist communist collaborators]].
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* LastStand: Jin-tae buys time for Jin-seok to escape [[spoiler:by gunning down as much Communist soldiers as he can before he kicks the bucket.]]
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* LastStand: Jin-tae buys time for Jin-seok to escape [[spoiler:by gunning down as much Communist communist soldiers as he can before he kicks the bucket.]]
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* DamselInDistress: Young-shin is captured [[spoiler:by South Korean militia and was about to be executed]] before Jin-tae and Jin-seok rescue her... [[spoiler:sadly, [[KillTheCutie it doesn't end well for her]]]].
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* DamselInDistress: Young-shin is captured [[spoiler:by anti-communist South Korean militia and was is about to be executed]] before Jin-tae and Jin-seok rescue her... [[spoiler:sadly, [[KillTheCutie it doesn't end well for her]]]].
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Deconstructed furiously when Jin-tae's platoon attack a North Korean stronghold and kill every communist soldier they can find, in revenge for the village massacre. The communists are trying to surrender while being butchered, and it's unclear if they're even the ones who slaughtered the village in the first place. It all comes across as a manifestation of the fraticidal brutality unique to civil wars.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Deconstructed furiously viciously when Jin-tae's platoon battalion attack a North Korean stronghold and kill every communist soldier they can find, in revenge for the village massacre.massacre. While the South Koreans' rage is perfectly justified, it's pretty clear they've become just as bad as their enemies. The communists are trying to surrender while being butchered, and it's unclear if they're even the ones who slaughtered the village in the first place. It all comes across as a manifestation of the fraticidal brutality unique to civil wars.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: The South Korean soldiers come across the aftermath of a nasty massacre of villagers by the North Koreans, who even booby-trapped bodies that badly injure two South Koreans. The South Koreans, especially Jin-tae, respond with a RoaringRampageOfRevenge up to the Chinese border, viciously killing every North Korean soldier they find, even if they're begging for their lives and trying to surrender.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: The South Korean soldiers come across the aftermath of a nasty terrible massacre of villagers villagers, both young and old, by the North Koreans, who even booby-trapped bodies that badly injure two South Koreans. It gets worse after the South Koreans discover that certain bodies are booby-trapped, leaving two of their men critically injured. The South Koreans, especially Jin-tae, respond with a RoaringRampageOfRevenge up to the Chinese border, viciously killing every North Korean soldier they find, even if they're begging for their lives and trying to surrender.surrender.
* PetTheDog: In the middle of the South Korean reprisal, Jin-soek finds himself aiming his rifle at a hysterical North Korean, who begs him to not pull the trigger. Jin-soek fires over the man's head, hitting a wall as the North Korean sobs in relief.
* PetTheDog: In the middle of the South Korean reprisal, Jin-soek finds himself aiming his rifle at a hysterical North Korean, who begs him to not pull the trigger. Jin-soek fires over the man's head, hitting a wall as the North Korean sobs in relief.
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* SociopathicSoldier: Jin-tae gradually goes from being a NiceGuy to a broken soldier after witnessing and partaking in so much horror during the war.
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* SociopathicSoldier: Jin-tae gradually goes from being a NiceGuy to a broken soldier after witnessing and partaking in so much horror during the war. By the time Jin-Soek meets him again, [[spoiler: Jin-tae has turned into a psychotic killing machine for the North Koreans, who fights because he enjoys taking lives.]]
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In order to fight the communist threat, the South Korean military dipped down to this level. Jin-tae's BigBrotherInstinct also had corrupted him in battle.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In order to fight the communist threat, threat and reacting to communist atrocities, the South Korean military dipped down to this level.level, committing atrocities of their own. Jin-tae's BigBrotherInstinct also had corrupted him in battle.
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* HumansAreBastards: The North and South Koreans really aren't that different from each other when it came to atrocities.
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* HumansAreBastards: The North and South Koreans really aren't that different from each other when it came comes to atrocities.atrocities, particularly massacres of combatants and non-combatants.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Jin-soek sports a deeply traumatized and shocked expression when he witnesses Jin-tae gleefully join in the rounding up and gunning down of unarmed North Korean soldiers.
