Followed by The Seven Female POWs, with which he was arrested for violating anti-communism act, he made a rather satirical return with this film of ′anti-communistic message where the characters once again are dressed in neat North Korean military officer uniforms. Young-hoon, a military hero from NK, has to shot his father to death to know the whereabout of his brother Young-hoon, the head of guerillas against NK army, who is on the verge of assassinating his own brother for securing freedom of his country. In this film which follows the conflict between two brothers, due to the genuine difference between political ideologies, the war seems to be merely set as an uncontrollable backdrop; in other words, the emphasis on the cruelty of NK in the name of anti communism is eloquently diluted with an equally-cruel attitude by SK, insisting on killing the younger brother. The significance of anti-war film that deals with the absurdity of war begins to lose its purpose, because of the characters with fatalism who accept the tragedy of war itself. Out of Lee′s entire body of work, this is the one that the most faithful to story-telling and is concerned with the absolute tragedy caused by the inevitable collapse of family. (Cho Young-jung)