Movie, "71-Into the Fire" to be released on June 16th had its press meeting at Stanford University in California, USA. At the press release, the 400 students and Korean Americans came together to watch this film and give their critiques. A famous critic, Scott Fonas gave a thumbs up on kwon Sang-woo's acting!

He said that the acting was as memorable as James Dean's acting. The rebellious glare with the cigarette gave the characteristic of his acting expressive reminding him of James Dean's acting in his golden years.

Another history professor had said that it was very entertaining and that the war scenes were very horrific. The acting by Kwon and Choi Seung-hyeon was great!

The motif of the Korean was has been praised and is being a hot topic in the film industries in America and is good to see that many are more aware of this historical moment. However, there is also a counter effect that in a map in the film, the Sea of Korea or the Oriental Sea was written as Sea of Japan.
This raised the question of the film addressing or admitting that the sea is Japans'.

When this question was asked raising awareness that it was not addressed correctly, the director changed the subject that the focus should be on the movie, not the history.

This may be a very small detail of the film, however, because of the issues on the naming of the sea and ownership of the Dokdo island, patriotism has been put aside for the better of the film.

Making a film raising awareness of the Korean War, yet naming the Sea of Korea as Sea of Japan which already had many debates and arguments was disappointing to the Korean patriots and very ironic for its production.



Source: news.nate.com + hancinema.net