#anyway if you know any other good WWI movies (aside from All Quiet which I’m already going to watch with my boyfriend)
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so I experienced my own version of Barbenheimer on my flight back to America from Japan that my boyfriend has dubbed Barbenteen. because I replaced Oppenheimer with 1917. I currently have a pet interest in World War I fiction that discusses the hopeless brutality of war as compared and contrasted with the humanity within it, and also I just really wanted to watch the Barbie movie, so it seemed like a good choice of duo.
anyway the Barbie movie did a better job of humanizing the Kens who redeemed themselves after the failure of their radical conservative takeover than the movie about war’s senseless violence and futility did of humanizing… literally any of the German soldiers, at all, whatsoever. which is Sure Not Something I Thought I’d Be Saying But Here We Are
#red randomness#barbie#wwi#it was so frustrating because 1917 had many good qualities#the degree of the horrors it showed. the friendship at the heart of it all and the tragedy of it.#the focus on lower class lower rank soldiers instead of officers#the fact that this war is literally being fought by men so young they’re basically kids#but when you have the only interactions with Germans#serve only to prove#that British soldiers A. are the only ones capable of compassion to the enemy#and B. any attempts at compassion toward German soldiers will end in betrayal and death#then congratulations! you’ve fucked up catastrophically as a war movie!#like are we still demonizing the Germans about this war? what fucking year is it?#would it have been so horribly impossibly difficult to show even one German soldier repaying compassion in kind?#I’ve already ranted about this to everyone I know but. sigh#anyway if you know any other good WWI movies (aside from All Quiet which I’m already going to watch with my boyfriend)#then please let me know! there must be at least one that doesn’t do this shit
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