0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 24 Apr 2023 \ on: Daily discussion thread
Started to watch the miniseries "The Pacific" again but this time with my girlfriend.
We're already at part three and she likes it. But some scenes are definitely not easy to watch.
But this is what makes this miniseries so great: It's raw, brutal and honest.
I also feel like the pacific theater is not recognized enough compared to 1944-1945 in Western Europe.
A lot already happened during WWII before the Americans landed in Normandy.
As I get older I find it more challenging to watch a lot of this stuff, or anything about military history. It often has a strong Allies-could-do-never-do-anything-wrong bent. Having lived in Japan for many years, I know the other perspective to this: young country kids brainwashed by the military junta to go and die on some rock in the Pacific for some kind of glory, the American trade embargoes that drove Japan to war, and of course the firebombing of civilians.
I choose peace, not war.
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It often has a strong Allies-could-do-never-do-anything-wrong bent.
I know what you mean.
However, I think The Pacific is not like that. It shows the slow descend into madness for the soldiers and that the Allies did some terrible stuff, too.
The propaganda is also shown; how the Japanese are dehumanized to make killing them easier
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Example scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AG1IaU4hiI
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