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14 April 2007

Days of Glory

This movie was fine, but oh cry me a river! I just really don't like sad tales, especially when it has to do with some oppressed people and their sad lives. Who wants to spend the time and money and energy to go out to the movies, just to get depressed? Don't we go to the movies to be entertained? Anyway, the thing is, EVERYONE has a sad tale to tell, if you look deep enough. Everyone. You, me, the knitter down the street.

That being said, the interesting thing about this movie was the fact that some people will fight for something they're never seen, or a place (France, the "Motherland") they've never been to. Psychologically, that's interesting.

The one thing I thought was done well is the way in which the film direction really enabled you to feel a part of the military action. It was that feeling of being hunted. Truly hunted. Have you ever felt that in real life? If we don't count playing hide-and-seek on the school playground, or playing Marco Polo in the swimming pool, I have to say the one and only time I ever felt that fear of being hunted was in Texas. Playing paintball.

Now you may laugh at paintball, but it's neither fun nor funny. Especially in Texas where everyone's a good shot. And I'm not a bad shot, but really, picture me, dressed in fatigues, with a rifle, crawling through the Texas bush, trying to kill before being killed. It was really scary. Maybe I was playing with an especially militant bunch, I don't know. All I know is that it's not a nice feeling, the paintballs left bruises where they hit me, and it was only then that I understood a small part of what it's like to be in war.

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