…perhaps? i was wondering about that after i watched
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JohnnyBoy — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 07:08 PM)
Most likely it's about the military stuff that takes place during the war without showing the fighting. That's usually a hard thing to accomplish. MAS*H is the best at it.
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Innocent User — 10 months ago(May 26, 2025 08:33 AM)
I can't think of any decent war movie that isn't anti-war. The best way to deliver an anti-war message is through the showing of the tragedy of war: the killing and maiming of (mostly) young, barely adult men, and of course, innocent civilians. During times of existential conflict, some pro war movies are made, but that's a necessity to stir passions and further motivate people to fight.
Only psychopaths like war. Some soldiers become psychopathic, but almost none start out that way. It develops, as a coping mechanism. A survival instinct.
Ash, and others who've served, know more than anybody about this. Clearly Ash came out with his moral compass intact, but some don't. It's usually correlated with the brutality of the combat they witness.
My recommendations for anybody wanting to understand the true misery of war are Come and See, Grave of the Fireflies, American Sniper, and Saving Private Ryan. There's not much they don't cover between the four of them.
ETA: Schindler's List too, of course. Regrettably, that level of collective psychopathy is not behind us.
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Sofie, RAF — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 05:15 PM)
yeah, i think
The Imitation Game
qualifies. i've seen it and liked it! also
Enigma
, made a decade earlier, with Kate Winslet and Dougray Scott, about the same topic.
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sheetsadam1 — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 05:20 PM)
Ulzana's Raid came to mind when I realized that some westerns qualify as war movies. And it's one of the few (along with Little Big Man and Dances with Wolves) to not be pro-genocide. And it's also an allegory for Vietnam.
There's also the (historically anachronistic) Civil War scene in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Leone's Duck You Sucker, about the Mexican Revolution (probably his most unseen film apart from the early sword and sandal stuff).
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sheetsadam1 — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 05:26 PM)
Oh, and Matewan (1987). It's not actually a war movie, so much as a depiction of events leading up to a battle where the U.S. government sent planes to bomb their own citizens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
Taylor Brown has a novel about the entire ordeal called Rednecks, and it's actually quite good.
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sheetsadam1 — 10 months ago(May 25, 2025 05:58 PM)
Watch it as a double feature with Harlan County USA (1976) if you haven't seen it. In my opinion, the greatest documentary of all time and probably the best depiction of class struggle in all of cinema.
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Harlan County is also on my eternal watchlist Lmao. i really need to get to it some time soon now