Sometimes a person's goal is clear and determined, and they can bear any heavy price, especially when the goal is because of feelings.
The story takes place in a remote village in South Korea in the last century, when the girl Junyi and her husband Shangji had just married, during the Vietnam War, and the newlywed husband was conscripted into the army.
He is the only child in the family, and his mother-in-law loves him very much, in order to let Junyi have a child as soon as possible, the mother-in-law urges her to visit relatives in the army every month.
But Chun Yi is very disgusted, because every time she goes, Shang Ji is lukewarm to her, the two are arranged marriages, and her husband does not love her at all.
Moreover, Shangji still has a lover outside, so that after several consecutive visits to relatives, Junyi is still not pregnant, and her mother-in-law begins to dislike her uselessness.
Later, suddenly Shangji's unit was sent to Vietnam, and when her mother-in-law learned of it, she was out of control and made a big fuss, and she was worried that her son would never come back after he left.
So she poured all her anger on ChunYi's body and forced her to go to Vietnam to find her son back, but Chunyi had never even been out of the village, let alone where Vietnam was.
But she couldn't stop her mother-in-law's daily crying, and Chun Yi had to tearfully embark on a journey to find a husband. She came to the city and wanted to go with the troops, but was directly driven out by the soldiers.
Zheng Man, a local gangster, also wanted to flee to Vietnam in order to hide his debts, and he also organized a condolence performance troupe to prepare to go to Southeast Asia to make some money.
Chun Yi overheard this, so he found Zheng Man and wanted him to help find her husband, and Zheng Man agreed, but on the condition that Chun Yi had to follow them to perform.
In this way, Chunyi became the lead singer in the troupe, but in fact, Zheng Man only regarded the beautiful Chunyi as a cash cow, and did not think of helping her find a husband.
Soon the group set off on a boat, and Zheng Man gave Chun Yi a very foreign stage name, Sunny, and the rest of the band also gave her a simple training.
After several people arrived at their destinations, Zheng Man looked around for performance opportunities, but the locals liked to watch the performances of the girl group and were not interested in the performance of the band.
Zheng Man's team consisted of only one girl, Junyi, and she was dressed conservatively, and he could not find the opportunity to perform in the city.
Zheng Man then thought of a bold idea, that is, to perform for the army, and then the group came to the US military base, and Zheng Man asked Junyi to change into a performance costume and perform on stage.
The conservative Chunyi, wearing this kind of costume for the first time, she stood on the stage and felt ashamed, and she could not perform normally.
The American soldiers in the audience all rose up to drive Chun Yi down, and Zheng Man was greatly annoyed and slapped Chun Yi fiercely.
The money of the US military could not be earned, so Zheng Man ran to the South Korean army to perform.
At this time, the Korean army had already fought several defeats, morale was low, and the arrival of Chun Yi made the soldiers excited, and Zheng Man arranged a performance that night.
Chun Yi's performance costume was accidentally lost on the road, and he had no choice but to wear a military uniform to perform on stage, but he did not expect that this unintentional dressing caused the soldiers to cheer.
Chun Yi quickly relaxed in front of the countrymen, she sang and danced on the stage, and the soldiers in the audience cheered excitedly, and the performance was very successful.
The band's fame was also a hit, and in the days that followed, Junyi often went to various bases to perform, and his mind became more and more open.
What followed was that the dress became easier and simpler, and Zheng Man made a lot of money by relying on her, but Chun Yi did not forget the purpose of his trip.
She asks Zheng Man to help her find her husband, and the conflict between the two breaks out, and Junyi even threatens to strike.
Zheng Man had to pretend to agree first, preparing to finish the performance, and Junyi listened to the happy performance on the stage, fantasizing about the scene when he met her husband.
But at this time, the base was suddenly attacked by air raids, the scene was blown into ruins, and several members of the band quickly got into the car to escape, but on the way, they were ambushed and imprisoned in the dungeon.
During the period of detention, every day was not seen, and after dozens of days of detention, the U.S. military passed by and found several people after the end of the battle.
Zheng Man made a clever move and sang the U.S. national anthem, and the U.S. military then rescued several people and brought them back to the base.
Chun Yi hopes that the US military can help find her husband's whereabouts, but after some searching, the US military commander tells Chun Yi that her husband has disappeared during the battle.
But Chun Yi did not intend to give up, she followed the band to stay on the US military base to perform hard, once to please the US military, wanting them to help find a husband.
In the evening, Junyi changed into simple clothes and came to the club to perform, and the soldiers whistled at her, and in their eyes Junyi was no different from a stripper.
They also scrambled to put the money into Junyi's clothes, and Junyi felt humiliated, but in order to find her husband, she endured.
After the performance, the US military was very satisfied, Zheng Man and several people also earned a lot of dollars, and Chun Yi was poured a lot of wine, and began to vomit after returning.
Knowing that her business was not yet finished, she approached the commander of the U.S. army and hoped that he would give the order to help find her husband, but the commander offered to ask Juni to spend the night with him.
Chun Yi calmly agreed, she had already paid so much, and now she was about to take this last step, chun Yi stayed in the chief's room that night.
The rest of the band fell silent, and a few big men made a profit on a girl and watched her being abused by a foreign race.
They felt faceless and silently burned the us dollar.
A few days later, the U.S. army finally contacted Shangji's unit and sent Juni along with the band.
Shangji had just experienced a battle, his unit was defeated, and he was carried out of the trench with a gray face.
Just in time to see Chun Yi who came to look for him, Chun Yi walked firmly to her husband and slapped her husband over and over again.
Chun Yi paid too much to find a husband who did not love her at all, and she finally fulfilled her promise to her mother-in-law, but also lost her original self.
This is the story from the Korean movie "Lang in the Distance", which was released in 2008.
The story is finally frozen in such a picture: a distant view, on the slope of a battlefield, the soldiers are still fighting in the distance, and the smoke of war is everywhere. Husband Shangji knelt in front of his wife Shunyi, and the couple cried bitterly.
A wife who came to the battlefield to find her husband and sold her body for her husband's life, at the moment of facing her husband, all the grievances and resentments were vented on her husband's several slaps, but the hurt in her heart was irreparable.
And the husband Shangji, after the cruelty of the war, realized the preciousness of emotion, he knelt in front of his wife and cried bitterly, in fact, it was also a confession in his heart.
The change from warm to cool at the end of the film shows that the cruelty of war and the pain caused to people are eternal.
Overall, it's a good film, eschewing the authenticity of the story, and from a cinematic point of view, the film explores the harm of war to people from a female perspective. Song and dance alternate with the flames of war, and in contrast, the human body experiences the endless pain that war brings to people and families.