... growing protest against United States" involvement in Vietnam, Wayne contested that he tried to counter the resistance by creating a major motion picture to, what he says, "Tell the story of our fighting men in Vietnam with reason, emotion, characterization, and action in a manner that will inspire a patriotic attitude on the part of fellow Americans." The film begins with reporters asking a group ... not authentic. As The Deer Hunter progresses, the story focuses on the disillusioned and shattered communities the three men face. After being taken prisoners, the three friends are forced...

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... were getting laid off for no good reason, and a national communist scare had the nation at a standstill. In premise, it sure reminds me of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, where a small town in Massachusetts goes stark crazy over what seems to be a huge witch hunt but in this case, it's not the 1600's anymore and it's hard to believe this was the ... following had died like the hysteria that he had brought with him; this had thus set the stage for Miller's play The Crucible. Arthur Miller had rewritten the Witch-hunt that had occurred there in 1692 into a fictional literary piece. The play...

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... are probably fairly realistic, while the rate of fire, although already shown as strong, is almost certainly underestimated, or underplayed. In areas around the Belgium town of Ypres (Ieper in Flemish) salients created vicious cross-fire by both machine-guns and artillery, (the latter known as "enfilading" = to sweep ... "morass of glue-like mud" seeming sinisterly different from the simplistically ideal situation in source I, while the colour picture of that source (in our books) makes an even more interesting comparison, with no shell-holes, and the only mud being the trenches. The her...

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... of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb tragedy. In The Beginning or the End, politicians, governors, army officers are those who mainly drive the story while ordinary citizens barely stage the play. In details, the film shows us scenes from politicians discussing their plans with the bomb to soldiers transporting the bomb to Japan and dropping it on Hiroshima. Throughout all the ... an authority-affirmed and carefully planned action. On the other hand, Children of Hiroshima's story is driven by an ordinary kindergarten teacher, named Takako, through a trip back to her home town which sheds l...

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