Unbelievable, Unforgettable
When the word “battle,” or any other war-affiliated term, pops up in a movie title, you’re usually in for an action-packed, loud, at times cruel, but ever-grand spectacle: Dunkirk, Pearl Harbor, Hacksaw Ridge, Enemy at the Gates. Yet there’s more to it than meets the eye.
Three prestigious directors—Chen Kaige, Hark Tsui and Dante Lam—are behind the 176-minute-long war epic , shot with the help of an unprecedented 70,000 extras and China’s largest-ever production budget of $200 million, that follows the Chinese People’s Volunteers (CPV) who joined the battle at Lake Changjin, or Chosin Reservoir, in the northeast of the Korean Peninsula during the War
