Gallipoli

In the movie Gallipoli, two Austrian men (I don’t remember their names so I‘ll guess) meet each other and eventually enlist in the army for the Allies. The movie .shows the times from before they meet and it ends with the death of one of them.

The story begins with Adolph (blonde dude) practicing his sprints. He is racing against the clock and time. Next, while with some of his friends, the topic of war comes up. One person says that he wants to enlist and soon others follow. Those who did not follow, did so because their other friends said that they weren’t man enough or they made fun of them and said that they were scared. So, a major cause of the young men joining the war was because of peer pressure and just following friends whom they trusted. Another cause was that they really had nothing better to do on the boring farm or out in the country. The young men wanted something fun, exciting, and different.

Later on, Adolph is in an important race where he again is running against the clock but this time he is racing other people. He wins the race. In second by just a little bit is a man named Bode (Mel Gibson). He tried his hardest but was unable to get to the finish line before Adolph. Right Next to the big ra

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Pretty soon, Bode and Adolph are sent to the trenches. Soon all the troops are getting ready to charge and just before Bode gets their to tell them that it has been called off they make a charge that they all know will be the deaths of them, and they know the futility of the charge. Bode does not know how to ride so Adolph tries to teach him. This movie was also full of symbols from the stop watch to races. After their train breaks down, they have to walk in the desert. The movie Gallipoli clearly showed how it was that so many lives were lost in World War 1. Here they request to be put in the same unit so that they can be together and they are put together. Because they are going out for cavalry, they have to be able to ride horses well and there is a try out for it. When it was Bode’s turn, he didn’t kick the horse hard enough to start it so it never moved. They are going to try to rush the Turk’s with bayonets. It Also showed how people would do things even if they knew it was suicidal. After sitting on the horse for about half a minute, he got off the horse completely embarrassed. Still they go strong and are completely wiped out. Eventually they arrive at their destination. Bode then goes off somewhere else and joins.

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