The actual written word, the script for the film, is one of the strongest supporters of the theme that the only tru

The most important scene, visually I think in proving this theme however, is the one in which they invade and take over the insane asylum which the Nazi’s infiltrated. During the ensuing battle to retake the asylum, one of the inmates picks up a rifle and begins to shoot randomly, crying out “I am one of you know....I am sane!” This one little scene displays rather dramatically the insanity of war and how transparent the line between sane and insane really is. The completion of the war marks the end of an implied “temporary insanity” that all soldiers seem to experience. Escaping the insanity of war makes survival that much more powerful to the audience as well as to the soldiers.

e glory of war is surviving. There are very few attempts at sentimentality in this film. Fuller, due to his time spent in WWII, has a seemingly endless fountain of information and wants to express as much of it as he can. Because the audience follows the “four horsemen” and their sergeant through so many endeavors the audience never really grows attached to the actual missions, just the main characters who go through all of the missions. The audience is happy to just see the men make it out of one mission and go on to the next. Subconsciously, the audience has already adopted the mentality that the true glory of war is surviving. The movie is moved along more by the events than the feelings, and that is why the audience truly starts to feel

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