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This topic has been covered before in the asylum. Before I saw Winter Soldier this week, my top anti-war film would have been Shame directed by Bergman. I found the Winter Soldier in our library's videos. It contains the 1971 testimony of veterans' experiences in Vietnam.
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Some food for thought.
There are very, very few films showing the soviet atrocities, which were, by all accounts, comparable to those committed by the Japanese and the Germans.
I can think of a couple of Polish films, a German "A Woman in Berlin"... and that's about it.
interesting concept for a war film. I suspect the process of the German people being conditioned to the Nazi movement was a slow but continual process. We probably need to go back before WWI to see it unfold.
Same with the Russian people going from Lenin to Stalin would be my guess.
There is no daylight between the Nazi and the communists, both spilled rivers of blood. Both had incredibly brutal methods... just different technologically... due to, mainly, the Russia's technological backwardness, so they had to rely on manual methods.
Crap like that Come and See serve two purposes. One, of course, is boosting the local militaristic and nationalistic hysteria. And it does so well. The commies have been milking the war theme forever, and are not going to stop. Their other leg - cosmos - is gradually dying.
The second purpose is in recruiting the Western willing idiots. By promoting the evil of the Nazi they are trying to white wash their own crimes. As we see times and again, that one is also working well.
Watching that crap you will never get even the slightest idea that the soviets were just as guilty of the events depicted in the film. That part of the truth is too uncomfortable, and it is kept out.
It is known, that the history is written by the victors... and in this case we have a "victor" that is every bit as bloody, ruthless and inhumane, who... for a number of purely political considerations, is given the right to write the history. This is disgusting.
It makes me wonder - if Germany won in WW2... what would its war films look like?
Just take that piece of crap and change the uniforms?
"A Woman in Berlin" gives you some sense of what it might look like.
Israel and its continuing treatment of the Palestinians comes, obviously, to mind. Note all the Holocaust propaganda films churned out by Israel-funded (quietly) producers every single year, yet not ONE film made in Israel or by Israelis questioning the lethal apartheid that's been going on for decades in the former Palestinian territories.
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Less serious and hopefully inoffensive take: If a filmmaker wants to show despicable, deviant and atrocious human behavior on film, have a Nazi do it. Who's gonna say a Nazi would never do that? The "Nazisploitation" subgenre is a strange one.
But, The Damned, which has a new Criterion release, and Salon Kitty introduced one of my favorite actor/screen names of all time - Helmut Berger (ugly American pronunciation, of course. I'll have mine wit cheese.)
perfect fit for those roles, agreed!
when I open my greasy spoon cinema-themed diner, i'm gonna serve Helmut Burgers and Jon Phillip Slaw Dogs
greatest film actors of any country or era, Anatoly Solonitsyn.
Not blood and gore. Not heroic action in a doomed cause. Rather, the savage whipsaw of cold-blooded betrayal, of psychological weakening and failure under sustained and brutal conditions.
Brilliantly acted, filmed, and written.
"The Red and the White," from Hungary, is a very, very close second.
Both are well worth seeking out as they both eschew creating heroic figures that, no matter what happens, still end up making war seem noble.
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Not the very best anti-war movie, but worthwhile viewing.
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. "
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Although director Hayao Miyazaki says "Grave of the Fireflies" was not intended as an anti-war film, some viewers feel that it is. It's an animated movie with the usual high quality of all of Studio Ghibli's films. Very highly rated.
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I read an article earlier this week about anime films that described Grave of the Fireflies as an anti-war film. I've seen several Studio Ghibli films but not this one, yet.
and thought it was quite a good one.
The film was largely censored for 34 years.
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. "
― W.C. Fields
We live in Trump territory surrounded by Amish Anti-Vaxxers, but our local library is a part of Clevnet.
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The disc itself originally came from:
The Wayne County Public Library serves the communities of Wayne County, Ohio from its administrative offices in Wooster, Ohio and branches in Creston, Dalton, Doylestown, Rittman, Shreve, and West Salem.[23] It also offers bookmobile service and outreach program, and patron can use the extended services of CLEVNET, a group of libraries located in northeast Ohio.
In 2005, the library loaned more than 1.2 million items to its 54,000 cardholders.[24] Total holding are over 340,000 volumes with over 900 periodical subscriptions.[25]
Truly a gut-wrenching mind f**k.
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Little wonder that it's got traction among some in the West.
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no single Top Pick as such.
Pretty much any good war film is a good anti-war film at the same time.
Makes it a tough choice as there are many good > great war films.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
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Dr. Strangelove.
A satire on the absurdity of war and the war makers.
+1 for Paths of Glory.
I think it'd be Paths of Glory for me.
Music alone justifies the price of admission.There are too many to mention, but certainly the great Russian duo belongs on any such list.
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