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...is over...

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on March 25, 2002 at 04:19:18

In Reply to: Oh, the torture! posted by Victor Khomenko on March 23, 2002 at 11:31:05:

It was close to what I remembered - cruel and hopeless, like the war itself. In depicting the war one question always titilates me: what is the purpose of THAT particular depiction? Is is to attract the male croud? To boost the national spirit and the recruitment? To give us the shot at understanting the historic events? To win the Oscar? Or to make us understand the scope of human sufferings?

Given all these choices it is not surprising that here in the US we have left most of them behind and simply went for the trash heap - and tinsel. The anti-war expressive means were ready and well developed back in the fifties, when Wahjda made his films. But the reason these didn't go well with the popcorn croud meant that we would embark on development of a new approach - the one that eventually brought us up to the plastic wars of the SPR and Pearl Harbor. So plastic that the partition between these and the Star Wars is getting more and more blurred... hard to believe.

Kanal speaks in low voice and you listen. It needs no loud sounds, as the TRUE horror is still in the faces, not in the mock-ups. And it grabs you like no SPR ever could and it leaves you exhausted and desperate - such is its power.

It was also interesting to see the sequences in the opening part of the film that Kubrick later borrowed - almost lifted directly - for his FMJ. Here they have a far more eerie feeling to them, though.

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