The War Prayer
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Featured at Animation Film Screening at OSA Archivum in Budapest, Hungary to commemorate UN Human Rights Day, December 9, 2010.
From OSA Program:
The War Prayer (Markos Kounalakis, USA, 2006, 14 min)
Based on Mark Twain's piece "The War Prayer," a short story written in the heat of the Philippine-American war of 1899-1902 offering a poignant reflection on the double-edged moral sword implicit to war.
Followed by discussion with Markos Kounalakis, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and President and Publisher Emeritus of the Washington Monthly. Moderator -- Oksana Sarkisova, Film Historian, OSA Archivum.
From Wikipedia Notes:
"The War Prayer," a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war.
The structure of the work is simple, but effective: an unnamed country goes to war, and patriotic citizens attend a church service for soldiers who have been called up. The people call upon their God to grant them victory and protect their troops. Suddenly, an "aged stranger" appears and announces that he is God's messenger. He explains to them that he is there to speak aloud the second part of their prayer for victory, the part which they have implicitly wished for but have not spoken aloud themselves: the prayer for the suffering and destruction of their enemies. What follows is a grisly depiction of hardships inflicted on war-torn nations by their conquerors.
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After 6 consecutive years of only learning American history in school, (seriously, I've come to loath the subject) only near the end of the 6th year was I shown this.
IlanaLikesDoodling 1 month ago
How is it that the man who told us the truth and made us laugh, can tell us the truth and make us cry? I noticed someone has put Mark Twain's "The War Prayer" in the Internet Sacred Text Archive. I think we can all agree it belongs there.
coyoteroadkill 1 month ago
While I normally love Peter Coyote's voice, I'm not sure I agree with his oral interpretation. He's missing the rhythm of a martial drumbeat that Twain so artistically wove into language. The punctuation and words themselves actually make the rhythm of a drum.
tfrito 2 months ago
Add to required media for public education curriculum.
boatdoll 4 months ago