This film truly shocked me. It’s the first time that i have really been able to get a grasp on the true horrors of a historical event like this, and it has opened my mind to many new ideas. The way that the film chose to keep every photo and recounting of the war uncensored with nothing cut out was such a new way to experience the story of the war, with no glorification to the actual events was very unique and mature. This new experience gave me countless new thoughts and opinions, but i will focus on one of the simpler and what i think to be the most intreasting. The fundamental root of this thought is how these men could survive these hardships, but to do it and call it an “adventure” and something they would gladly do it again. How could millions of men, nevertheless 15-19yr old boys, be so resilient and tough when faced with the harshest and most tragic condiotions human historty has ever seen? This puzzles me as it seems that these men were all like the heroes of old, scared of nothing and risking their lives for the greater good , such as Achilles or Heracules. But they were all just boys urged to leave from every corner of their home countires and die on the front. I wondor if this is a positive message, that even the most common man can be capeable of incredabile feats when given the chance, or that its a tragedy that the next greatest and most formidiable men we have ever had were wasted and discarded on a pointelss war.
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I love how you have your thoughts of the film in a different perspective, which is an interesting one that I had never thought of such as showing the war in the most realistic way possible or the fundamental root of how these men could survive these hardships but there are a couple spelling mistakes there, but everything else than that are great.
Emmet I really like your empathy towards the soldiers, I also found really interesting how the soldiers called it and adventure too.
I truly loved the way you effectively conveyed your emotions and showed gratitude for considering different viewpoints.
I love how you point to the fact that so many young men were wasted at war, which made it really easy to understand and agree to. Again like the first comment there are some spelling mistakes but spelling mistakes aside I think you did a great job!
I’m glad that you mentioned that the war was pointless. There were barely any positive outcomes of the war, and in no way do they outweigh the problems that the world faced after the war. They way you described your feelings toward the movie were very clear, and I liked how you compared the children sent to war to Achilles as he was also (from my little knowledge on Homer’s Iliad) sent to a war that was the result of an alliance system.