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In Reply to: RE: Ugetsu, Burmese Harp, Fires on the Plain posted by Tom §. on July 16, 2007 at 12:35:38
"Fires on the Plain" and "Burmese Harp" are two of the greatest anti-war movies. May I also nominate "Kanal" and "Forbidden Games".
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I must say that Fires on the Plain is more art than it is a movie narrative. The main character seems to represent reticent support for a war effort where one does not actually see their enemy, does not intimately understand what they are fighting for, nor has experienced active combat. He takes his orders with indifference much like an apathetic population would disapprove of the motives of their nation going to a war yet still "support their troops." As he is threatened occasionally by shellings from enemies so far away they might as well be invisible, he stumbles around in a daze just looking for the next opportunity that directly benefits his condition. "Screw the war, I just want to eat."
I have trouble drawing contemporary parallels.
Required watching, IMO.
-Tom §.
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