spiderwort
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Post by spiderwort on Feb 26, 2022 1:05:43 GMT
What about The Deerhunter?
I saw THE DEERHUNTER when it first was released, novastar, so it's been awhile. But at the time, I thought it seemed to be a realistic portrayal of the traumatic effect of war on those who served in Viet Nam (or any war). I myself have never served, so I'm not sure my assessment is qualified, but it seemed that way to me at the time. I have/had friends and relatives who served in wars across the decades, and to a person not one of them wanted to discuss their experiences with me. In many ways, for me, that seems an internalized reflection of the externalized trauma manifest in THE DEERHUNTER. "The horror. . .the horror," as Brando said in APPOCALYPSE NOW.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 26, 2022 5:31:31 GMT
What about The Deerhunter?
I saw THE DEERHUNTER when it first was released, novastar, so it's been awhile. But at the time, I thought it seemed to be a realistic portrayal of the traumatic effect of war on those who served in Viet Nam (or any war). I myself have never served, so I'm not sure my assessment is qualified, but it seemed that way to me at the time. I have/had friends and relatives who served in wars across the decades, and to a person not one of them wanted to discuss their experiences with me. In many ways, for me, that seems an internalized reflection of the externalized trauma manifest in THE DEERHUNTER. "The horror. . .the horror," as Brando said in APPOCALYPSE NOW.
Exactly, we see the before, perfectly normal overall happy everyday working men in their everyday lives with their families and their get-togethers and their little joys and their bullshit talk, we see the during, hells unimaginable the likes of which nobody should ever have to suffer, many of which were covered up for years, and we see the after, a lot don't come home, some come home in pieces, some come home physically all there but mentally they never get out. To me it's a very perfect movie of accurate war depiction, the fight doesn't stop when you come home.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Mar 3, 2022 20:32:19 GMT
7th Heaven (1927)Extended scenes of invading armies and trench warfare tied with unrealistic going immediately to war storyline. Commandeering taxies and trucks to take soilers to the front
Trenches shown to a lesser degree in the 1937 version.
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Post by louise on Mar 4, 2022 7:39:16 GMT
Hope and Glory (1987) is a realistic portrayal of life on the the home front in England.
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