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Passchendaele
13 years ago
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http://www.youtube.com/user/la187357/videos?view=0
This is a movie about a Canadian during WW1. It is pretty graphic and not for those that get queasy easily. What I really love about this movie is the humanity. The main character did something horrible, for which he gets a medal, in the first scene and it reverberates through the rest of the movie. His attitude about war are pretty much matched with mine today.
I believe this movie was produced in Canada by Canadians. The reason why I think this is because it has something that most American movies lack these days, a plot. It is very well written and also shows something that is lacking in typical war movies, the enemy is not some mindless evil horde. I won't spoil any more, just watch it.
John Stuart Mill wrote:War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
A quote often taken out of context and usually slapped on bumpers next to other stickers that say, "Don't call it your country if you won't fight for it." If you ever see the latter ask the person where it states in the constitution where you have to be a soldier in order to be considered a citizen.
This is a movie about a Canadian during WW1. It is pretty graphic and not for those that get queasy easily. What I really love about this movie is the humanity. The main character did something horrible, for which he gets a medal, in the first scene and it reverberates through the rest of the movie. His attitude about war are pretty much matched with mine today.
I believe this movie was produced in Canada by Canadians. The reason why I think this is because it has something that most American movies lack these days, a plot. It is very well written and also shows something that is lacking in typical war movies, the enemy is not some mindless evil horde. I won't spoil any more, just watch it.
John Stuart Mill wrote:War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
A quote often taken out of context and usually slapped on bumpers next to other stickers that say, "Don't call it your country if you won't fight for it." If you ever see the latter ask the person where it states in the constitution where you have to be a soldier in order to be considered a citizen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMTz9nIUkGc
"Service Guarantees Citizenship"
The director apparently read a few pages of the book, thought "this crap's boring as hell!" and made it a hillarious, awesome satire of militarism