Public opinion in the world at the beginning of the war was cheerful and young men were looked upon to fight for many of the participating countries. In the movie, Arch and were encouraged to join the fight. Going to war was looked upon as honorable. They went without any idea of what it really was like or what could happen to them once they got there. In the movie, it appeared that the training wasn't taken seriously and it is doubtful

The trenches is where the real feeling of World War I can be attained. They really give you an idea of how dangerous it really is: stay hidden or be killed. Fighting on the Gallipoli front was very close in many places. The soldiers were close enough to see each other, if they dared to look above the trenches. Both sides could be compared to anthills. They dug ditches to keep themselves safe from each other. However, the living conditions weren't very hospitable. Man was not meant to live like an insect. They also do an excellent job of revealing how random death can come. The constant shelling day and night starting from the time they land really opens your eye to what it was like to be there. According to Fussel p.47 the main job of an infantryman was to exercise self- control while being shelled. A man can be right there one moment and in pieces the next. The trenches were the only way they could protect themselves from this constant threat.

In conclusion, the film 'Gallipoli' does an excellent job of portraying the brutality of World War I and the waste of human lives which occurred during it. You get an excellent sense of what it must have been like to be there and put in that situation of how the innocent children of the world were made to live in holes and forced to charge machine guns armed with bayonets. To see their friends die and know that they very likely could be the next to die. A difference between the line officer and the staff officer was also shown. The British officer showed no reluctance to order the men to certain suicide where the line officer was unwilling to order his men to do something that he, himself wouldn't also do. If he was to order them to die, then he would die with them. It also gives y

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