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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 13, 2014 10:30:37 GMT 12
I saw an advert last night for the new New Zealand WWI film "Field Punishment No. 1" which was made last year. It is to screen soon on TV One. The advert looks pretty good!!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 13, 2014 10:31:37 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 13, 2014 10:32:12 GMT 12
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Post by 11SQNLDR on Apr 13, 2014 11:51:37 GMT 12
Thanks for this Dave - indeed it does look well done and a fascinating story.
I hope it will be available to purchase on DVD or Blu Ray as I won't be able to see it otherwise....
If anyone hears when it might be available to purchase please sing out!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 19, 2014 22:18:20 GMT 12
This is screening at 8.30pm on Tuesday 22nd of April, on TV One
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 22, 2014 19:53:52 GMT 12
HEADS UP - This is on in half an hour
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 22, 2014 22:50:00 GMT 12
Well that was a well crafted and well acted film. Very well made all round. It is good to see unheard of and unusual new Zealand war stories can be made, but I do wonder if we'll ever see a decent film get funded that would depict men who did actually fight bravely for their country in WWI or WWII, rather than the story of a pacifist in a film with a clearly slanted anti-war bent?
I'm not a fan of war but I'm also no fan of the types who spout unionist, communist claptrap like that Mark Briggs chap. So politically jaded they think their view is the only viewpoint and everyone should change to suit them. No surprises that he later became a politician in the Labour Government.
I have been learning lately thanks to the fantastic BBC WWI programming on their radio networks that there was a lot more to the First World War than how we now view it, and much of the truth has been twisted or pushed aside over the past century by people with their own viewpoints of their own later time. A lot of things have been re-presented to the public with modern viewpoints attached, and this particularly happened in the later 1960's and 1970's when of course the whole hippy generation were aiming to ban the bomb and stop the war in Viet Nam. So our modern understanding of the First World War has been culturally warped. I think perhaps films like this, good as it is, won't do it any good in reversing this warping of how we view the war.
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Post by Damon on Apr 23, 2014 16:15:29 GMT 12
The Nurse at the hospital got a raw deal with the shifts .She was in every hospital scene day or night . The main actor turned out to be insane because he didn't want to go to war.
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Post by camtech on Apr 23, 2014 16:39:18 GMT 12
The French doctor had the right idea - if those who make war are sane, then those who oppose war must be insane.
Fascinating story - staggering to think that objectors were treated so abominably. Also interesting that it was J K Baxters father.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 23, 2014 18:32:02 GMT 12
According to Wikipedia Archie Baxter "suffered a complete physical and mental breakdown, but survived, and returned to his Otago farm after the war". The mental breakdown wasn't really portrayed as such in the movie, was it? That would explain why he was declared insane, whereas the film didn't really get it across that he'd broken down mentally.
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