Hand-held cameras help pull us into the horror of the beach invasion--as if we're watching newsreel cameramen as they follow the soldiers. ... He has made an incredibly truthful and realistic film, which some people chose to call an anti-war film because of the way it represents war and it's dark portrail of it. ... Story parallels are echoed in subplots, to point to the film's more thought-provoking questions, but they aren't dwelled on; they're simply brought up, and the film moves on. ... This message is as follows: War is a horrible, horrible experience. .....

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The film of All Quiet on the Western Front basically followed the plot of the book, but it cut off some of the scenes which are not very important in the book. The atmosphere in the film was very much like the atmosphere in the book, so even though the plots are not exactly the same, but the film still accomplished its point. However, I think the film did not have as many thoughts as the book had. ... The film did carry out the theme in the book, but since the absences some of the feelings in the book, the theme in the film was not as impressive as the book. ... The film and the book did not m...

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A great film or book always has certain characteristics. ... All of this has to do with the specifics events in World War II, and the reactions of the people, or filmmakers, that followed. ... While the men knew what they were doing, they may have been so terrified of Hitler that they decided they had no choice but to follow orders. ... This may have been a point to be shown countless times in both film and fiction. ... This could be the reason for the showing of the guilt in the Italian film. ...

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For example, Russia's Soviet Montage Era in the 1920s dissuaded producers from the conventional ways of making films and encouraged the development of experimental filming techniques. ... During the 1920s the Russian film industry films relied heavily on editing in order to educate and entertain the masses. Most films around this time were based on the Soviet Montage Theory in which transitions between scenes did not follow the Classical Hollywood style of flowing together easily. ... Unfortunately for Vertov, who intended on filming to portray "life as it is" (Vertov), fiction ...

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In post war society anti-war books, films and poems all became increasingly well liked and several pacifist pressure groups were formed with the sole aim of achieving peaceful solutions to international problems. ... Therefore the British government sought to follow a policy of appeasement. ...

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It took one hundred years, from the time it was first recognized as a syndrome among hysterical women in the late 1800s to its inclusion in 1980 as a diagnosis in the manual of the American Psychiatric Association, for posttraumatic stress disorder to be recognized as a legitimate illness. (Herman ...

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When the government seems weak and unwilling to help any human will turn to his or her human instincts, and human instinct is to follow the trail of logic to getting help wherever you can. ... Mussolini did not glorify and rebuild the Roman Empire, but as long as people thought he could, they would follow him into the sea. ...

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The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generation Roosevelt. As a child and thro...

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The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generati...

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• Grade Level: High School