...with since childhood in what appears to me a politically-correct, 'feelgood' manner that is really quite banal & the actors themselves, no doubt overwhelmed by the task of credibly portraying their characters, fail to convey a truthful emotional intensity in a story that seems contrived especially to promote the influential Sassoon-family & their son's role in shaping public opinion about war.
A constructive opinion about wars involves understanding who the people are forever generating them
Well I can't really emphatize with the emotion purported to be conveyed in this movie, that seems to rely very much on the public's pre-existing almost religious awe for the horrors of world war 1, when quite schizophrenically the wars of today created by the same puppeteers are branded 'heroic', spreading 'freedom' and 'democracy'.
The movie addresses this pre-existing emotional content of the factual but quite propagandistically promoted horror of the trenches everybody was indoctrinated...
Yes, and I feel so sorry for Rivers because even though he doesn't use physical pain to heal his patients he is doing the exact same thing by making them remember something they try with all their might to forget. And that would hurt just as much.
protopathic system, which healed first, had only the extremes.
This is used as a metaphor for the extreme and seemingly insane reactions of the "shell shocked" soldiers - which is seen as an early and necessary part of the regeneration process.
By the way, not only Sassoon and Owen, but also Rivers and Head (and their experiment) - as well as, unfortunately, Dr. Yealland and his methods - are all historical.
A shame that they didn't explain the book's point about regeneration: That Head's and Rivers' experiment with the radial nerve showed that during the regeneration process, at first the nerve responded with extreme and diffuse pain to touch. There was no ability to discriminate before regeneration was more advanced and what they called the epicritical system had been regenerated. The
...with since childhood in what appears to me a politically-correct, 'feelgood' manner that is really quite banal & the actors themselves, no doubt overwhelmed by the task of credibly portraying their characters, fail to convey a truthful emotional intensity in a story that seems contrived especially to promote the influential Sassoon-family & their son's role in shaping public opinion about war.
A constructive opinion about wars involves understanding who the people are forever generating them
suddenlyitsobvious 1 month ago
Well I can't really emphatize with the emotion purported to be conveyed in this movie, that seems to rely very much on the public's pre-existing almost religious awe for the horrors of world war 1, when quite schizophrenically the wars of today created by the same puppeteers are branded 'heroic', spreading 'freedom' and 'democracy'.
The movie addresses this pre-existing emotional content of the factual but quite propagandistically promoted horror of the trenches everybody was indoctrinated...
suddenlyitsobvious 1 month ago
Yes, and I feel so sorry for Rivers because even though he doesn't use physical pain to heal his patients he is doing the exact same thing by making them remember something they try with all their might to forget. And that would hurt just as much.
joburgess 3 months ago
That was terrible what happened to him
sfjp1 10 months ago
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protopathic system, which healed first, had only the extremes.
This is used as a metaphor for the extreme and seemingly insane reactions of the "shell shocked" soldiers - which is seen as an early and necessary part of the regeneration process.
By the way, not only Sassoon and Owen, but also Rivers and Head (and their experiment) - as well as, unfortunately, Dr. Yealland and his methods - are all historical.
ZolotayaKoshka 1 year ago
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ZolotayaKoshka 1 year ago
A shame that they didn't explain the book's point about regeneration: That Head's and Rivers' experiment with the radial nerve showed that during the regeneration process, at first the nerve responded with extreme and diffuse pain to touch. There was no ability to discriminate before regeneration was more advanced and what they called the epicritical system had been regenerated. The
ZolotayaKoshka 1 year ago