Bridge on the River Kwai

     During their battles the squad sees that survival is not something that is taught but a matter of pure chance. They see their allies shooting allies. Their close friends in the war are killed and they must face the reality that getting out alive is luck. The goal of killing the enemy turns into just trying to stay alive yourself. And when their time is done they are faced with mourning for those who fell and bitter sweet relief that it is over.

This movie was about Michael Dunne, a Canadian soldier in WWI. In the beginning, he fought against a very young German soldier and killed him. Michael was so horrified with what he had done that he ran away from the army. Later, he was trying not to be sent back to the battlefield because he would have been killed for deserting the army. Instead he was sent back to Calgary where Michael saw Sarah and fell in love with her. Sarah’s younger brother, David, was convinced to join the army by his girlfriend’s father. Michael rejoined the army under a new name so that he could protect David. In the end, Michael saved David when he was accidentally crucified and while doing this Michael sustained fatal injuries. David lost the use of his legs, but he survived and he went home.

The film was a great source to grasp the concepts of what the Australian troop members had to deal with, and about how they felt about

Have you ever needed easier access to the essential items to stay alive? This is specifically what the residents of the North-East thought around the year 1817. Carol Sheriff argues in her book, “The Artificial River” that the residents of the canal corridor actively sought after long-distance trade and therefore consumer goods that markets brought to their homes. The fact that people supported the Erie Canal at all "suggests that at least some aspired to engage in broader market exchange" (p. 11). The transformation of this region because of the Erie Canal is organized around six topics, each of which is covered by a chapter. They include the; Visions of Progress, the Triumph of Art over Nature, Reducing Distance and Time, the Politics of Land and Water, the Politics of Business, and the Perils of Progress.

In one scene, the jewish refugees capture a German scout,They crowd around him and eventually beat him to death.As one of the darker scenes in the movie, it shows revenge in one of its rawest forms. The main characters in the film, the Bielski brothers, fight against the nazis not only to survive, but to try and get back at the Nazi threat.

Once the family has been evacuated and are on a train to an internment camp, the daughter takes over as narrator and represents a different impression of the Japanese Americans. The

Just as many stories, both action and adventure, or comedy and crime, Beah’s narrative is created through his personal journey. In his journey he encounters many events and people. Out of those events are the negative and the positive ones. Thus, his journey revolves around the abstract idea of war and how neither him or his fellow villagers would come to a general understanding of what the refugees migrating to their village had perceived because it was too terrific and unpredictable. The three major events that took place in the main character’s life was changing from innocent young boy, to savage solider and again to a normal adult.

The film has many characters that actually made a difference in history. Four major characters were Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, Pvt. Trip, Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins and Cpl. Thomas Searles. Colonel Shaw served as the Commander of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He also serves as great leader to his troops. Pvt. Trip was a soldier of the 54th Regiment. Seen to other soldiers as a smart mouth trouble maker because of his background. Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins started as a grave digger for wars then moved up to a non-commissioned officer. After volunteering for the 54th regiment he was promoted by Major Cabot Forbes. He had to

The journey of Rachel and Samuel Lapp to Boston to visit Rachel’s sister becomes quite an experience. The varieties of camera shots give the audience Samuel’s perspective of Philadelphia station. Harsh and loud noises from large crowd contrasts with the high level angle shot of people walking around independently in the train station, increase the individualism of the modern world. In contrast, Amish community is a collective group. Within the murder scene at Pennsylvania train station, Samuel, a young, innocent and naive Amish boy views a horrific murder. The close up shot of Samuel’s terrified eyes is strongly contrasted with the camera shots were moving back and forth from Samuel’s face and the horrific event happening in front of him, the shots kept increasing in speed demonstrating Samuel’s beating heart. This is an unnatural scene to Samuel, one he would never have to experience within his Amish world. This emphasises the culture different views on violence in such a violent way. In the Amish society everyone is considered to be equal and taking of another people’s life will be shunned. However, this scene reinforces that violence has no place within the Amish culture, whereas the Western world would resort to whatever is necessary. Weir’s choices of urban

Its unrelenting portrayal of irrational death and annihilation goes well beyond other German war films of the 1950s. Its vigilant proposition that at least some of the boys might be accountable for not only their own deaths but the others deaths as well, implying that the older German soldiers indubitably should have known better.

In the 1957 film classic The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson accepts torture through isolation rather than allow his officers or himself to be used as prisoner of war (POW) laborers along with his men (Spiegel & Lane, 1957). His refusal to compromise their Geneva Convention protections in the face of Japanese pressure presents us with an interesting ethical question: to what end does a leader continue to cling to his/her rights as a POW? By closer examination of the duty of a POW and the role of leaders in captivity, it can be argued that LTC Nicholson did not act in the best interest of his men.

The film is about the issue of Indigenous hope amongst disadvantaged. It tells the story of two young indigenous Australian Samson and Delilah, who live in the central Australian desert in a small independent village. They live in a run-down shelter that do not go school or go to work. Delilah spends the days caring for her elderly grandmother, helping her produce for her artwork. Samson is addicted to petrol-sniffing. He spends his days listening to

The film I have chosen for my 1950’s film analysis is The Bridge on the River Kwai. Directed by David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai follows a battalion of British soldiers who find themselves trapped in a Japanese POW camp during WWII in 1943. The British soldieries are led by Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) who is ordered by the commandant of the POW camp, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), to build a railroad bridge over the Burmese river Kwai.

Everyone has a desire, something that they want to achieve or obtain for them. Whether it is ethical or immoral, having desires is almost inevitable. Sometimes these desires make people go through tough times. Tragic occurrences such as death and broken relationships shape the lives of people positively or negatively. In the following essay, “Many Rivers to Cross” and the short stories, “Two Kinds” and “Everyday Use”, the protagonists of these texts struggle to achieve their desire, but because of those struggles the main characters do eventually come to a revelation.

The main character, a young, German man named Peter Muller, was very traumatized by what the Nazi's and Gestapo (the terrorist political police of the Nazi regime founded by Hermann Göring, whose purpose was to persecute all political opponents of the Nazi regime) did to his father. Over the course of the movie, Peter went through a change; he saw his father in a new light, and realized what really mattered in the world around him. Peter's father was a violinist and professor at the university. He spoke out against the expulsion of the Jewish professors and the entire Nazi movement. Because of this, one night, in the middle of dinner, he was taken away by the Gestapo. He was brought back home