2017 · war · action · drama
The Battleship Island
Directed by Ryoo Seung-wan2h 12m2017
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island 'Hashima Island' to mine for coal, attempt to escape.
Our read: The Battleship Island (2017) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded war · action · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme war / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
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