06-09-2014, 11:27 AM
I watched this, without sound, on the plane to or from Indiana.
It seemed passive, even stage-bound. The soldiers and officers and their jeeps and other equipment just seemed too clean. Maybe that's really the way it was during the war, and only on the front lines did you get smudged, with debris all about. But I kept seeing it as a movie set.
Also, I found it a bit annoying that they focused so much on the most famous classical paintings. Do I recall the Mona Lisa, or am I imagining it now? I wanted them to be rescuing some of the great surrealist works. It just really felt stodgy, heavy-handed, pretentious, hi-falutin' and even disrespectful of the plight of soldiers who were actually fighting, killing and dying in the war. And I say this as an art lover.
Of course, it's always possible I would have felt differently if I'd bought earphones.
It seemed passive, even stage-bound. The soldiers and officers and their jeeps and other equipment just seemed too clean. Maybe that's really the way it was during the war, and only on the front lines did you get smudged, with debris all about. But I kept seeing it as a movie set.
Also, I found it a bit annoying that they focused so much on the most famous classical paintings. Do I recall the Mona Lisa, or am I imagining it now? I wanted them to be rescuing some of the great surrealist works. It just really felt stodgy, heavy-handed, pretentious, hi-falutin' and even disrespectful of the plight of soldiers who were actually fighting, killing and dying in the war. And I say this as an art lover.
Of course, it's always possible I would have felt differently if I'd bought earphones.