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In Reply to: "La Grande Illusion" posted by rico on May 29, 2006 at 12:30:04:
The film indeed is heartfelt and serves a history of war that was quite different than what we have seen since. A code among men of decency and humanity mixed with the beastliness of war/murder.
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hat gentlemanliness may have existed in a few instances, isolated, but mainly trench warfare was cold-blooded slaughter. On a scale never seen before as man came to grips with the efficiency of killing machines.
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There is that pre-modern feel about that movie, forcing one to disassociate from his present day life in order to get absorbed... it is perhaps the closest thing to Erich Maria Remark's WWI prose.
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