Joint Security Area vs Son of Saul
Joint Security Area has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.1/10 for Son of Saul). Son of Saul is the shorter watch at 1h 47m compared with 1h 48m. Joint Security Area is the older of the two (2000 against 2015). Both are drama, thriller, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Joint Security Area
Son of Saul| Joint Security Area | Son of Saul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.8/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2015 |
| Length | 1h 48m | 1h 47m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War | Drama, Thriller, War |
| Country | South Korea | – |
| Director | Park Chan-wook | László Nemes |
| Main cast | Lee Byung-hun, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Kang-ho, Ki Joo-bong, Lee Dae-yeon | Urs Rechn, Marcin Czarnik, Mihály Kormos, Jerzy Walczak, Sándor Zsótér |
Synopsis
Joint Security Area
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.
Son of Saul
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper jewish burial.
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