Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence(Directed by Nagisa Oshima) and the Problems of Humanism
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If war movies generally dwell on the physical manifestations of war, understandable given its nature, there is a subset of the genre that deal with the POW experience away from the battlefield — THE GREAT ESCAPE begins in a prisoner-of-war camp but belongs more in the prison-break genre. Because we are shown enemies co-existing in close quarters under an imbalance of power between the captors and the captives, the emphasis is more on the psychology of the conflict, not only between opposing nations/cultures but among the men of the same team trapped inside the same cage.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence(Directed by Nagisa Oshima) and the Problems of Humanism
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence(Directed by…
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence(Directed by Nagisa Oshima) and the Problems of Humanism
If war movies generally dwell on the physical manifestations of war, understandable given its nature, there is a subset of the genre that deal with the POW experience away from the battlefield — THE GREAT ESCAPE begins in a prisoner-of-war camp but belongs more in the prison-break genre. Because we are shown enemies co-existing in close quarters under an imbalance of power between the captors and the captives, the emphasis is more on the psychology of the conflict, not only between opposing nations/cultures but among the men of the same team trapped inside the same cage.