Stitchmond t1_iycu8ja wrote
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I'd never read the book but the film is not all that graphic; akin to most recent historical war dramas. Band of Brothers, 1917, Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, The Patriot. Perhaps less romantic than some.
GrayRVA t1_iycvsps wrote
It’s not the gore, it’s the suffering of boys being sent to the trenches to die or if they didn’t die, emerge with PTSD (not that there was such a diagnosis). And for what? The amusement of powerful men.
Asterion7 t1_iyda69a wrote
Not much has changed. Ukraine is turning into the same trench warfare today.
Stitchmond t1_iyderu8 wrote
OK, I understand where you're coming from. There's certainly different types of "graphic" beyond gore. Having not experienced war and trench warfare specifically, I'm not sensitive to such depictions in film and lit. I can see how others, like those with PTSD as you mention, would have difficulty viewing or reading things that many just consider media to be consumed and analyzed.
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