O what a beautiful war is piece of work of parody on the uselessness of war. Its muscle as an anti war motion picture is not in its graphic picture of war but in its advanced use of surrealism, witticism and judgment. Throughout considerably of the picture show the manner of speaking resembles a favourite Music lecture theatre performance, yet unobtrusively the show manages to position in knife-like evaluation the horrors and uselessness of the combat. For taster the upper social class British Generals homily bullishly going on for the day's development but hiding in the surroundings is a cricket sign beside the number of dead (60,000) yards gained (0).
The moving-picture show makes every fundamentally informative points going on for the difference relating the mental attitude of those at abode and those at the fascia. For those at address it is straightforward to aver a nationalistic ardour and high spirits for the war. There is a nipping country near an high lecture war beguiler who conceitedly states he is "avoiding consumption his German wine" whilst the war is on, as an face of his column for the war. Those on the forefront line by oppositeness oft a bit fine-tuning the spoken language of songs to phrase their morale of dejection. Yet though the many another songs of the soldiers are loaded next to underestimation and satire, they are always voiced with the paramount cheerfulness. This sole serves to detail the oppositeness betwixt their biddable nature and the inutility of their heartsick hunt A principally remarkable country is the Suffragette female speaking eloquently against the war, with the sole purpose to be mocked by the broad public, who go amiss to know any of her reasonable points. The scene, as typically, ends in a opus with the masses melodic "Land of Hope and Glory" A ultranationalistic ode to drown out out the peacemaker chastisement.
Apart from the first night sequences, which present the matutinal moves to war, the film moves at a exciting speediness. There is always something new happening, (and both important actor to spot). The motion-picture show too has a pleasing black wit. Some new soldiers are person brought up to the head-on where on earth they come across few laid hindmost Australians. "Where are you going?" ask the Australians" "Wipers"
"O you don't privation to go near."
"Why not ?"
"There's a dearth."
"What of ammunition?"
"no coffins." - Australian soldiers lumber around laughing
A resounding subject is the direct contrast involving the blundering (Upper order) Generals and the soldiers who go through the deprivations and results of their Generals blunderings. The ineptitude of the Generals is solitary magnified by their swagger and well-nigh condescension. Their prayers to God are especially significant. They run on the lines of thing same "Dear God, gratify purify our clean-up solar day."
"Grant us victory, O Lord, beforehand the Americans get here." This warfare between the two is no more poignantly uttered than in the Christmas armistice of 1914. It was a appealing event in the precedent of the First World War, men from some sides ad lib laying downcast their armaments to fitting in no man's domain and cut presents. On hearing active this later, the officers put a bet on at HQ are out of the blue very angry around the "weakening of men's tummy for the fight".
There are more otherwise scenes, lettering a scrutiny you cognise how so much item the controller Richard Attenborough managed to put into this squat moving-picture show. Never sermonising or address it becomes a appealing evidence to both man's bully moral fibre and also for foolishness and injured. The eventual country near the unrelenting ordination of crosses is a putting in place and from the heart end to a extraordinary pic.