Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Cannon fodder
Another WWII film.
This time about the recruitment of the young students in military schools into the Wehrmacht.
The Germans have still not gotten over what happened to their country in the Thirties.
Well, neither have we.
What is amazing is that they can still produce insightful films about what happened and how otherwise smart, bright, well meaning kids got recruited into the war machine.
This shows how one kid did not get recruited and how he somehow missed the indoctrinating forces.
It is very good but if your appetite is for easy, softer views of that long ago war when I was just a kid you will not like it.
It is bloody, mean and unforgiving. I am of German extraction and I understand the long period of guilt and self recrimination that used to find outlets in hating other people.
This is a very good film and I would not mind seeing it again sometime.
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