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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
What would you do if you lost your arms, your legs, you cannot talk and you get confined to a bedroom in some gloomy hospital? Well, that's the thing about this movie. A young man went to war and ended like a human waste. What we understand is that the war is not a joke, not a bomb and explosion movie. War is this, a mutilated guy who only wants to die to end the nightmare.
Johnny give us his perspective of his environment and of his new "world": feeding, bath, test, people coming and so on. The continuos flashbakcs give us more perspective of his life and what he was before the accident.
Sometimes hard to see, it's a beautiful movie in the end, powerful and emotive.
Johnny give us his perspective of his environment and of his new "world": feeding, bath, test, people coming and so on. The continuos flashbakcs give us more perspective of his life and what he was before the accident.
Sometimes hard to see, it's a beautiful movie in the end, powerful and emotive.
27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is one of the most powerful movies i have ever watched. I think that the very depressing nature of this film might make it barely more than a one time watch for many, but this is not a bad thing as the impact it will have when you see it for the first time is one that you will likely never forget.
While the movie fluctuates between the present and Joe's memories, sufficiently distinguished by black and white scenes and colour scenes respectively, the unbearably heavy atmosphere never changes. Every minute of the movie is drenched in despair and it leaves you with a macabre feeling that is quite unshakable. Watching the movie is also an understandably claustrophobic experience, as we witness Joe realising for the first time and having to come to terms with the fact that he has no arms, no legs, and no face and that he is trapped inside his mind for the rest of his 'life.' It is impossible to even imagine being in such a horrific position but it still leaves you with the same feeling of suffocating imprisonment.
This movie adaptation is very similar to the book though it does not follow it religiously, particularly towards the end, but the message remains clear and the story is just as horrifying. The scenes featuring Joe's hallucinations of Christ are especially harrowing and the ending of the movie admirably juxtaposes the pity and humanity of some people and the selfish and inhumane actions of others.
It is definitely an intense portrait of the horrific nature of war, just the thought of Joe's condition might be enough to shock anyone into a pacifism. One of the things that makes this more devastating is that it is set in a time of conscription and the young man has no choice in his own fate as the government claims him as an expendable, nameless puppet. It is saddening in its depiction of what could and does happen in battle and it reinforces the fact that these soldiers have lives, families, partners and hopes for the future that are obliterated in senseless acts of war that leave them dead or even worse, limbless, faceless and speechless, at such early stages of their lives.
It is horrifying, gripping, unforgettable and real!
While the movie fluctuates between the present and Joe's memories, sufficiently distinguished by black and white scenes and colour scenes respectively, the unbearably heavy atmosphere never changes. Every minute of the movie is drenched in despair and it leaves you with a macabre feeling that is quite unshakable. Watching the movie is also an understandably claustrophobic experience, as we witness Joe realising for the first time and having to come to terms with the fact that he has no arms, no legs, and no face and that he is trapped inside his mind for the rest of his 'life.' It is impossible to even imagine being in such a horrific position but it still leaves you with the same feeling of suffocating imprisonment.
This movie adaptation is very similar to the book though it does not follow it religiously, particularly towards the end, but the message remains clear and the story is just as horrifying. The scenes featuring Joe's hallucinations of Christ are especially harrowing and the ending of the movie admirably juxtaposes the pity and humanity of some people and the selfish and inhumane actions of others.
It is definitely an intense portrait of the horrific nature of war, just the thought of Joe's condition might be enough to shock anyone into a pacifism. One of the things that makes this more devastating is that it is set in a time of conscription and the young man has no choice in his own fate as the government claims him as an expendable, nameless puppet. It is saddening in its depiction of what could and does happen in battle and it reinforces the fact that these soldiers have lives, families, partners and hopes for the future that are obliterated in senseless acts of war that leave them dead or even worse, limbless, faceless and speechless, at such early stages of their lives.
It is horrifying, gripping, unforgettable and real!
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The Horror of War: This film has haunted me ever since I saw it on television a number of years ago. Like the film “All Quiet on The Western Front” it is a timeless anti-war movie quickly dispelling the “Action and Glamour” myth of war. As a 3rd generation volunteer of Combat Medics (myself a casualty of Desert Storm (Father serving in the Korean War)) I can bear witness to my Grandfathers event of not retuning home from France to the Beat of the Drum and the Flag waving at the end of the Great War as he had to remain in Service an extra year as a Medic looking after the backlog of casualties. After the Glories of Battle the filth of The Battle is dumped into the Medics, Doctors and Nurses lap; “The Living Dead – The Unwanted”. Anyone who watches the film will remember it again in November when the Poppy Tubs come out. This film represents the attitude of the “system” to this very day. A must watch........
Also a compelling plea for Governments to find a peaceful settlement / solution before condemning the youth of their own Nation... R.A.B.
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