The Front Line

An excellent movie that I found to be superior to most Western cinema War films, great plot, acting and realism.

It's set near the end of the Korean War, where an Officer is sent to the Frontline to investigate rumours of a mole in a company.

He instead finds a friend he thought had died in the war, and how he's no longer the man he once knew.

The company are constantly fighting the enemy over a hill, an important strategic point that changes hands almost daily.

Truce talks are constantly going on between the 2 armies higher ranks during this, with this one hill the last detail needing to be settled before the truce can be finalised.

In this you see the futility of war, with the Hill changing hands and the loss of men involved over it. As well as how the war itself changes people, to the point you're no longer the same person.

**Slight Spoiler**

One scene really affected me when a little girl asked if her arm would grow back when she grew up.

It was just cruel and heart wrenching seeing a soldier bluntly tell her it wouldn't and her reaction to it.