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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Re: _Gallipoli_  (spoiler)
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 14:46:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 28 14:46:28 1985
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It helps to know some history to understand where the story goes &
how it ends.  The Australian & New Zealand troops were used as
cannon fodder by the British command in WW1, especially at Gallipoli
(the Canadians seemed to get some of the same treatment at the
hands of the Brits in Flanders).  Australian & New Zealand viewers
would know this & probably still have fairly vivd emotional responses
towards the British and the film's events.

I thought it was a very well-made movie, but I found its designation 
as an antiwar film (by some reviewers) bizarre.  Instead, in an indrect
way it's positively pro-war: it employs an underlying romantic view
of war that isn't cancelled out but enhanced by the sacrificial
slaughter at the end.  

						Regards,
						Ron Rizzo