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Sunday Premiere: The Monocled Mutineer (1986)
whether fact or not,moral is in the message.
Whether the events portrayed at Passchendale are true or not exactly accurate,this is still moving and emotive drama.Maybe useful as a training manual on how not to treat recruits, as bullying and brutality can still raise their ugly heads.Everyone has a breaking point and rather than instilling pride the Redcaps degraded and abused to the extent the soldiers were stripped of their dignity and had nothing to lose in mutiny.The drama certainly gets the viewer on the side of Percy Topliss,i was urging his escape from the pernicious official Woodhall.Whether mutiny jeopardised the allied cause,the underlying themes showed the complexity of the situation and how discipline stretched to inhumanity can backfire.
This Is England (2006)
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film held my attention throughout but one or two of the plot lines were baffling.why did Woody and Combo fall out so suddenly, splitting the group?one minute hugging, the next not speaking.also think the film had portrayed early Eighties England without need for the final act.at times Combo seemed quite reasonable-he wouldn't have turned on Milkie like that.all the main characters showed certain amount of humanity and empathy with each other-i think an alternative story line could have shown how the group overcame their differences of opinion and their friendship triumph-they were supposed to share similar beliefs and interests.