Figure 1.--The american film 'Battle Hymn' focuded on the plight of the refugee children during the Korean War. Here the children savage in garbage cabsfor food. |
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Two of the most important movies about the Korean War are 'Pork Chop Hill' and 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri'. There is one scene with children but that was in Japan not in an action scene. The stars of the
movie go to a bath house to find out that in Japan many families bathe together. The najor Korean War film with children is Battle Hymn (1957). Then there is 'Mash' an anti-Vietnam War movie set in Korea. The film and subsequent TV-series art=re one of the most dishonest fi,s Hollywood has ever nmade. The central thessis is that war is useless amd made by political leaders without any reason. Yet ask any of the people involved in the production if they would like to live in the Hell hole that is North Korea or democratic, vibrant South Korea. The stark difference between the North and South shows up in satellite imagery--the North Korean dictatorship shows us a pitch black next to South Korea aglow with free social and economic activity. Not once in the long history of the Mash series did the producers have the intelectual honesty to address this, but rather the focus was on undermining the sacrifices made by American and oyher U.N. servicemen to defend freedom. We assume that the Koreans have made many films about the war. Unfortunately we know nothing about them. Hopefully our Korean readers will be able to tell us somthing about them.
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