The film "Wooden Crosses" 1932 was a pretty good film. It was about a handful of soldiers who fought in the second world war. The conversation did not go deep into the psyche of the individuals instead the images and the silence seemed to tell the story. The banging of machine gun fire, the tension between the two countries (Germany and France) and the friendships being made in the trenches where lasting communications prevailed.
The sequencing of images was amazing. I remember sitting watching the movie and experiencing the absolute continuity of the camera frames. The sound of the pull-back on the mechanical canon was like a metal thug rejecting and re-surging. It was a very unique sound that seemed to bring me into the battlefields.
The pain and agony in the eyes of the actors was something that I found to be very real. There was no senseless blood pouring out - instead there was raw emotion and pain present.
The despair was stealth with bravery, courage and hope.
At the end of the film the lead character has a hallucination - one of wealth and success versus one of white wooden tombstone crosses. The final hallucination was what makes this film last the test of time. The hallucination captured the patriotism and ends with the disillusionment of one individuals life. It captures the attempt at happiness and ends with the realization of death and nothingness.
A great movie to watch on an Autumn evening in Canada. A time when the leaves are falling off the trees and when the nature from the summer seems to fade away like apples on a tree.
Annuska. Canada.
The sequencing of images was amazing. I remember sitting watching the movie and experiencing the absolute continuity of the camera frames. The sound of the pull-back on the mechanical canon was like a metal thug rejecting and re-surging. It was a very unique sound that seemed to bring me into the battlefields.
The pain and agony in the eyes of the actors was something that I found to be very real. There was no senseless blood pouring out - instead there was raw emotion and pain present.
The despair was stealth with bravery, courage and hope.
At the end of the film the lead character has a hallucination - one of wealth and success versus one of white wooden tombstone crosses. The final hallucination was what makes this film last the test of time. The hallucination captured the patriotism and ends with the disillusionment of one individuals life. It captures the attempt at happiness and ends with the realization of death and nothingness.
A great movie to watch on an Autumn evening in Canada. A time when the leaves are falling off the trees and when the nature from the summer seems to fade away like apples on a tree.
Annuska. Canada.