Louche
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If you haven't seen No Man's Land then you probably should. It's probably the best thing to come out of poor former Yugoslavia in the last five years (discounting a handcuffed Milosevic) and it's one of the best, most engaging bits of cinema I've seen in a fuck of a long time.
Basic premise is very very simple; two men, trapped in a trench in the middle of no man's land at the tail end of the Balkan wars. One Serb, one Bosnian. It's predicated on their conversations initially, and that's fascinating; illustrates perfectly the stupidity, the futility of the war, the half assed soldiers who were fighting it, their lack of organisation, training, or anything other than a pair of knackered trainers and a big gun, really. The black humour is painfully accurate.
Then the situation escalates and the film becomes an almost tearfully perfect microcosm of the war. The media get involved, and the UN. There's graveyard humour over language difficulties. Simon Callow makes a tremendous cameo. And the finale will rather surprise.
quote:Originally posted by Louche: illustrates perfectly the stupidity, the futility of the war
One day someone's going to make a film which illustrates how sensible war is, and how it really gets results and sorts out all sorts of arguments for really very little initial outlay.
This would probably be the most original war film ever made.
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quote:Originally posted by dang65: One day someone's going to make a film which illustrates how sensible war is, and how it really gets results and sorts out all sorts of arguments for really very little initial outlay.
This would probably be the most original war film ever made.
This doesn't really work as a sarcastic comment, give the sheer volume of pro-war films that have been made between the time when cinema started, and the present day. Arguably something like Birth of a Nation presents it's war as noble, and it's a tradition that's carried on right through to something like Lord of the Rings, which presents war as noble, necessary and an opportunity for people to become the best person they can be.
In between, there have been thousands of pro-war movies, inter war films depecting the Germans as an inhuman threat, and post WW-II films celebrating the way the Nazi war machine was crushed by the allies. And you've got guff like The Wild Geese, which is basically a championing of men of War even outside times of war. Even after grisly episodes like Vietnam and Korea hundreds of eighties films depicted war as the domain as the true American - a flexing of muscle setting the world to rights. True - there have always been anti-war movies, as well, but it's hardly as if there's a lack of pro-war stuff out there.
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I can't really think of any which are just a laugh all the way through and no one dies or anything. Even the gung ho ones like Wild Geese or Guns of Navarone have grim torture scenes and dead heroes.
No, hang on, I stand corrected. Kelly's Heroes. I don't think anyone even chips a fingernail in that one. And they get clean away with the gold at the end, so it's also a crime film which shows crime paying. And some of them use drugs and seem perfectly happy about it with no side effects. Quite possibly the greatest film ever made.
quote:Originally posted by Louche: All I wanted to be able to do was justify posting about hating Tom Hanks.
Hey, you've got a thread with posts on it. Go with the flow. Look at my divorce thread. Went off on a complete tangent about "a rose is still a rose..." or something, but it was so nice to see some old fashioned aggro and violence. How could one possibly complain?
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