PS: Does anyone know who the little girl pictured in Jack's house at the beginning of the movie is?
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Keith 2022-01-28 08:22:59
After watching the movie at first, I thought it was just a family film with a war as the background, a choice between family and country. Later, after watching the background of the war (World War I), I realized that it was the father's heroism that killed his son. , I was still blaming the father for Bird at first. After all, it was the son's own will (it may be an illusion caused by the film), and I couldn't understand why Jack said he couldn't stand this family. After combining the information, it became clear. But the picture of my father blaming himself at the end still moved me. I heard that Kipling later wrote on his son's epitaph: "If someone asks why we lost our lives in the war. It's because our elders deceived us...I think after my son died, he lived in Deep self-blame...
PS: Does anyone know who the little girl pictured in Jack's house at the beginning of the movie is?
PS: Does anyone know who the little girl pictured in Jack's house at the beginning of the movie is?
Extended Reading
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Rudyard Kipling: [after being informed of Jack's death] By all accounts he was very brave, so few of us have the opportunity to play our part properly. But he did. He achieved what he set out to achieve.
Caroline Kipling: He must have been in such awful pain.
Rudyard Kipling: If you talked to wounded soldiers they would tell you the pain only sets in later. So, he was lucky. I was done with quickly.
Caroline Kipling: Don't tell me he was lucky! He wasn't lucky, or... or Brave, or happy! Jack was eighteen years and 1 day old! He died in the rain, he couldn't see a thing, he was alone! You can't persuade me that there's any glory in that!
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Caroline Kipling: [crying] I miss him.
Rudyard Kipling: [bursts into tears] So do I.
Caroline Kipling: I can feel his head on my chest. I can feel his thick hair under my fingers. I can hear him laugh. I can feel his heat against me.