In 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription.In 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription.In 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
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[Arriving home with her husband after sending the youngest of their three sons off to the Korean War, Sarah begins trashing the husband's WWI shrine.]
Sarah Greer: Liar! Crazy, crazy liar! You never were in any one of those places and you know it. You never heard a shot fired. You were in Paris all through the war, shining up a general's boots, bringing him bicarbonate of soda when he'd drunk too much the night before. I went along with you; I thought it was childish, foolish, but I didn't think it did any harm. I thought if it made you feel any better to pretend you'd won the war alone, who did it hurt? But then I saw something: when your son Riley was killed
[in WWII]
Sarah Greer: , you were proud. And Martin was missing for four days in France; it made you feel important. You were a big man in Iverson's bar for an evening. Well, that's all over. You can take all this junk right back where you captured it with your own two hands, back to the pawn shop on Sixth Avenue in New York. As of this evening, there are no more professional heroes in this house.
Oceanchick accurately described so many factual aspects of the film, but I believe she misinterpreted the objectives of the plot and dialogue. Other reviewers claimed many scenes were underplayed, but I believe this kind of understatement was intentional so that the viewer's mind could expand to envision the deceit, horror, and.death about to be unleashed on the innocent, trapped characters. I saw so much of this.tragedy looming in my peers' lives during Vietnam, along with the ignorance, selfishness, and indifference of parents who willingly wanted to be lied to, to be told the war would bring prosperity as World War II had, and to be told their sons were being sent to an "adventure" no more dangerous than a church picnic or Boy Scout Camp. Of course, everything was wrapped in the flag of patriotism. The worst cruelty was the feigned indifference of a draft board so that the local big-wigs serving on it could use the war as a way to eliminate young men they considered losers, young men they did not like, or young men they believed "unworthy" of their daughters. If I were to put the whole scene into a nutshell, I would call it "Lies and Death.".
Some reviewers called this film a pro-war propaganda film, but I believe it is just the opposite: a war protest film that shows how a war impacts everyone in a society and how a draft board is a merchant of death. If there ever was an advertisement for an all-volunteer army, this film is it.
- sksolomonb
- Apr 11, 2021
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- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1