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Carmella 2022-03-23 09:01:24
The battlefield in the eyes of God, 9 points
While the film doesn't visually compare to Kushin's best films, the long trench shots and famous execution scene at the beginning of the film are still enough to go down in film history.
The theme of this film is easy to understand and can be summed up in one sentence: Patriotism is when the...
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Norwood 2022-03-21 09:01:23
Lao Ku is really "just didn't have time to express warmth"
Kubrick is so great, as Robert McKee said, to show the strength of the theme, you must set the power of the anti-theme to be strong enough. The colonel played by Douglas is honest, brave and witty. He just wants to save three innocent soldiers. But in the end, it failed, which is a tragic tragedy....
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[first lines]
Narrator of opening sequence: War began between Germany and France on August 3rd 1914. Five weeks later the German army had smashed its way to within eighteen miles of Paris. There the battered French miraculously rallied their forces at the Marne River and in a series of unexpected counterattacks drove the Germans back. The front was stabilized then shortly afterwards developed into a continuous line of heavily fortified trenches zigzagging their way five hundred miles from the English Channel to the Swiss frontier. By 1916, after two grisly years of trench warfare, the battle lines had changed very little. Successful attacks were measured in hundreds of yards, and paid for in lives, by hundreds of thousands.
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[last lines]
[Col. Dax listens to his regiment humming in the tavern]
Sgt. Boulanger: Sir?
Colonel Dax: Yes, sir.
Sgt. Boulanger: We have orders to move back to the front immediately.
Colonel Dax: Well give the men a few minutes more, Sergeant.
Sgt. Boulanger: Yes, sir.
