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In Reply to: RE: "No point?" Hmmmm... What would you say is the point of "Paths of Glory?" nt posted by tinear on May 17, 2012 at 08:14:32
For starters, it had real character development (not just guys yelling at each other for no reason). It had a stark theme - that of natural justice butting against narrow-minded bureaucracy. PoG takes the viewer on a ride where the stakes keep getting higher. Its conflicts are multi-leveled. And the ending is daring. The final scene is heart-rending.
Beaufort/Lebanon just sort of staggered around like a drunk outside a nightclub at 3am. Beaufort didn't actually have an ending; it just stopped (maybe the screenwriter ran out of ideas - not that he had any in the first place). Lebanon was an exercise in style over substance, which admittedly it did well.
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