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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2021 14:15:29 GMT
Unfortunately not. That song was just one of many others that made WW1 seem like a picnic day out to potential British recruits and hid the true depth of the horrors that awaited them. Joe Melia sings it semi-ironically, adding the line "shouting out these pathetic words" to the original. The poppies he hands out to each soldier is a motif Attenborough uses throughout the film, they presage coming death. What we are really watching is a man being sent to die and his family starting to see through the flag waving jingoism to the truth. So in the context of leaving, facing fate, not returning and scales falling from eyes I thought it was quite apropos. That's sad. Why did they choose such a jolly, happy person to execute it? |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 21, 2021 14:30:20 GMT
She and Cameron missed the point. Too subtle perhaps. You need to keep on with your search as I'm not the idiot your village is searching for. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2021 15:27:54 GMT
That's sad. Why did they choose such a jolly, happy person to execute it?
You get punched in the gut more when the reality sinks in. By laughing and being made to feel good about what is then shown to be a terrible thing you question your own feelings towards it as well as seeing the hollowness, stupidity and connivance by those in charge that surrounds it all. If you came out of Joan Plowright's play or Richard Attenborough's film feeling happy then it failed, shame would be a better emotion. That particular scene ends with a cut to the mother standing on a lonely St. Pancras station platform, from a happy-clappy end of the pier ditty to the grey realization that she's unlikely to ever see her son again.
Anyway, this is all getting depressingly downbeat so let's talk about something else  |
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Post by Ken on Jan 21, 2021 16:15:25 GMT
Agreed.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2021 16:51:47 GMT
That's sad. Why did they choose such a jolly, happy person to execute it?
You get punched in the gut more when the reality sinks in. By laughing and being made to feel good about what is then shown to be a terrible thing you question your own feelings towards it as well as seeing the hollowness, stupidity and connivance by those in charge that surrounds it all. If you came out of Joan Plowright's play or Richard Attenborough's film feeling happy then it failed, shame would be a better emotion. That particular scene ends with a cut to the mother standing on a lonely St. Pancras station platform, from a happy-clappy end of the pier ditty to the grey realization that she's unlikely to ever see her son again.
Anyway, this is all getting depressingly downbeat so let's talk about something else It sounds miserable,but, yes, effective. Like a jolly clown Double the effect if he's depressed and off the deep end. Ok, let's change the subject. Too sad. (But an effective tool in all media). |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 21, 2021 23:58:18 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2021 5:43:36 GMT
A great way to wake up. Thank you. |
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 22, 2021 22:55:26 GMT
A great way to wake up. Thank you. Sleep and waking up are part of life, so no thanks required.
"Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright if it doesn't auto play.
Been weaving dreams for years, though it doesn't always keep my dreams from being invaded. Life is what it is.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2021 8:34:13 GMT
A great way to wake up. Thank you. Sleep and waking up are part of life, so no thanks required.
"Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright if it doesn't auto play.
Been weaving dreams for years, though it doesn't always keep my dreams from being invaded. Life is What it is.
Lovely, babe😉 (and pardon the word liberties 😊 It's the music😊) I start with the one you givee then listen for an hour or so till my battery dies. Thank you.) |
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