So you haven't seen Passchendaele yet? I thought it was a really interesting movie. Since it's a love story and half of it takes place in Calgary it's not as bloody as most war movies, but *god* the parts of war they did show... I left the movie feeling really grateful for what I have and that it's been a long time since there's been a war on Canadian soil. The movie did an amazing job of showing the complete devastation of war. The last scene (or one of the last scenes) they pan out of the battle field and it totally broke my hear, because it's just this giant mud field covered in water-filled craters with a few scragles of dead trees. Even the people scenes showed the devastation. Paul's character is back in Canada because he's suffering from PTSD (or shell shock as they called it then) so he's broken. The woman that he falls in love with has a drug addition. And the scenes in Calgary have a lot of the darker side of human nature showing through (othering, greed and pettiness and the willingness to watch someone die to fulfill those things). It's definitely not a happy movie. But it's a powerful one. Even though it made me cry, I'd still recommend it.
Someone else asked me to upload it, so I think I'll try and do that this weekend if you'd like to grab it too.
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I thought it was a really interesting movie. Since it's a love story and half of it takes place in Calgary it's not as bloody as most war movies, but *god* the parts of war they did show...
I left the movie feeling really grateful for what I have and that it's been a long time since there's been a war on Canadian soil. The movie did an amazing job of showing the complete devastation of war. The last scene (or one of the last scenes) they pan out of the battle field and it totally broke my hear, because it's just this giant mud field covered in water-filled craters with a few scragles of dead trees.
Even the people scenes showed the devastation. Paul's character is back in Canada because he's suffering from PTSD (or shell shock as they called it then) so he's broken. The woman that he falls in love with has a drug addition. And the scenes in Calgary have a lot of the darker side of human nature showing through (othering, greed and pettiness and the willingness to watch someone die to fulfill those things).
It's definitely not a happy movie. But it's a powerful one. Even though it made me cry, I'd still recommend it.
Someone else asked me to upload it, so I think I'll try and do that this weekend if you'd like to grab it too.