Backbencher

The movie Gallipoli was a good movie, it was interesting to watch and had a good story line. It was also interesting to see australian fatalism at work. I just want to compare this film to an american war movie such as saving private ryan, or some other movie like that. in saving private ryan a family has lost three of its four sons in World War II and the movie follows the band of troops sent to save the last son and send him home and they do but a good number of them die but even at the end of the movie after alot of soldiers die they find private ryan and send him home leaving the watcher with a feeling of victory. With Gallipoli it is not how you feel after the movie you feel defeated and that all of that lose of life was for no reason. The movie starts out with the two main characters being runners both having opposeing views on the war, one wants to join the other doesn't, then they race against eachother and become friends. The one that wants to go to war talks the one that doesn't into joining with him. They are seperated for a time but after a few minutes of film they are transfered to the same unit. Then they get shipped to Gallipoli in southern Turkey where the fighting begins in ernest. Then at the end of the movie there is a great charge out of the trenches from the australians toward the turkish lines and the film gives the impressions that they barely make it ten feet before they are shot down. In this great and final charge of the movie one of the main characters dies but the other lives it is quite sad actually.