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ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There’s a scene in The Thin Red Line where a squad of American soldiers are lying in grass with Japanese machine-gun bullets flying all around them, and Adrian Brody’s character notices an interesting flower next to him and starts poking at it with a real look of appreciation on his face.

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TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
there was one war movie where the main character starts chasing a butterfly in the middle of war then fucking dies.

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- Emmie@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  War movies all lost luster if they ever had any after watching a lot of real footage due to Ukraine. It’s just all romanticised crap.
  
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  - TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh the movie I’m talking about was not a love story. It was revealing how bad war is to a lot of people. The book version got banned and burned by the Nazis, when the movie came out Nazis attacked the movie theaters and the moviegoers.
    
    he volunteers to go on a patrol and kills a Frenchman in hand-to-hand combat for the first time. He watches the man die slowly in agony for hours. He is remorseful and devastated, asking for forgiveness from the man’s corpse
    
    The book was also banned in other European countries on the grounds that it was considered anti-war propaganda; Austrian soldiers were forbidden from reading the book in 1929, and Czechoslovakia banned it from its military libraries. The Italian translation was also banned in 1933
    
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