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dir.salon.com - : War cannot be faced. It is too dreadful. It is the great emptiness that stands before life, transforms itself into a million shapes of unutterable horror, then returns to mocking silence. It is the nightmare from which we can never awake, because the nightmare is the truth: We die. We die like animals because we are animals. We are all creatures who blindly run until something big and hard hits us and our torn insides spill out and we die. ''It was easy to read the message in his entrails,'' Yossarian thinks in ''Catch-22'' as he stoops overthe whimpering, dying Snowden (''I'm so cold''), his liver, lungs, kidneys, ribs and stomach blasted apart by a three-inch piece of flak. ''Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret ... Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage.'' more...
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www.reel.com - : Hailed as the greatest war movie of all time, Saving Private Ryan is one of those few movies that lives up to its hype. Despite a few sentimental mis-strokes, Steven Spielberg's World War II saga is a masterpiece painted in pathos, cordite, and blood. Much like the Civil War drama Glory, Ryan pays tribute to those soldiers who were brave enough to lay down their lives for a cause they knew to be just. But unlike the somewhat simplistic story of Edward Zwick's epic, Ryan delves deeper into the morality behind warfare, asking many unsettling questions: Is it morally defensible to send troops off to their certain death? Is it right to sacrifice many men's lives to save one? more...
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