Das lange Film
I saw Das Boot for the first time yesterday and today (I saw it once, split over two days). It’s a long movie, as it turns out. 293 minutes worth of long. And very deliberately paced. (Perhaps the cut of the movie that wasn’t completely and totally uncut would’ve been a little been less slow).
But it was good. It’s a pretty depressing ending, despite the successful resolution to the main conflict.
December 3rd, 2005 at 2:48 am
Late Thoughts on an Old War: The Legacy of Vietnam
Philip D. Beidler, who served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam, sees less and less of the hard-won perspective of the common soldier in what America has made of that war. Each passing year, he says, dulls our sense of immediacy about Vie…