Posts from smokey in thread „Shenandoah“

ringo

dig it out and give it another airing, one of the sences that i like it the one when they go into the house and the father makes up the room for the newly weds, very touching. another one is near the end when he tells the lad on the bridge that he wants him to live and he hopes that he has a long live after the lad has shot his son.

cheers smokey

thanks bill of pa

i know he will do his duty, we have been bought up with a sense of this responablity, he is doing his training for this tour, we as a family accept that he must go and mum has already started to get the things together to make her world famous (according to our family) christmas cake to send to him over there.

cheers smokey

hi ringo

every war movie is very suttle in that they try not to glorify war, as one who has a brother who is about to go off to iraq (and i wished he didint have to go) i can see it. with shenandoah it shows the hardships and the ugly side to that particullar war from one mans view. but it also shows that no man can stand alone against a force greater than himself. on the whole it is a very enjoyable movie for many different reasons.

cheers smokey

ringo

this movie starts of as anti-war because he as the father didnt believe that it was his fight mainly because he didnt believe in it. when they are talking at the table he asks did the state put the food on the table no it was from their hard work that there was food on their table, when he talks to the doctor he asks again did the state give a titty for his young to suckle from - no. it is during the movie that he becomes to hate war more because of what he sees when he is searching for the young one, and the death of 2 of his sons and his daughter-in-law, so in a suttle way this is a anti-war movie.

cheers smokey