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Korean film ‘The Unforgiven’ is to be
screened at the InKo Centre, 51, 6th Main Road, Raja
Annamalaipuram, Chennai – 600 028, on August 24, 2007 at 7 p.m.
According to a note from the centre, entry is free to this film
directed by Yoon Jong-Bin.
The storyline
 Winner
of multiple awards at the Pusan International Film Festival in
2005 and selected for the UnCertain Regard section of the 2006
Cannes Film Festival, The Unforgiven, directed by Yoon Jong-bin,
casts an unswerving eye on what really goes on in the military
and its effect on those who are conscripted.
The reduction of all human relationships into
a rigid hierarchy during the two-year compulsory military
service is presented through a clever flashback structure and an
intimate character study of the two principal characters,
Sergeant Tae-jeong and the young rookie Seung-young.
To their delight, the two recognise each
other as junior high classmates and Tae-jeong promptly takes
Seung-young under his wing, hoping to teach him about the ‘ways
of the military’, Seung-young, however, is unable to conform to
the strict hierarchy of the military and is soon pegged as a
troublemaker. His inability to articulate his inner turmoil
explores the long shadow that mandatory military service casts
on the lives of Korean men.
Yoon Jong-bin’s forthright look at brutality
and brotherhood in the military is at once an absorbing
character study and a gripping tale. Cutting back and forth
between the two soldiers’ time in the service, it gradually
reveals how their shared secret changes their lives forever.
For more details, please call: 044-24361224.
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