Sahara-Jennifer Metzer
I thought that the movie that we watched in class this week was really eye opening and pretty interesting. I have seen a couple of WWII films but never any from that specific time period that talked specifically about the war.
The thing that i most liked about this movie was that part that the minority played in the story. The minority part was mostly of a black soldier, i didn't catch his name in the movie. We talked in class about the roles that minorities had in the army in this period of time. They were confined mostly to the job in the mess halls as cooks.
I liked that part that this soldier played in the film. It was interesting to me that he was their guide to find water that they were so desperately in need of. And even when they made it to the second well he was the one that went down into the well and found that it was still dripping water. It was also interesting for me to see that he was the one that ran down the German soldier that had escaped their custody. For me this soldier had one of the biggest parts in the movie if not the biggest. With out him the group might have never found what they were looking for.
I did notice that there were no women that had roles in this movie. I think that maybe the film wanted people to think that women's places were at home helping the war effort through building war items in the manufacturers
I think that for a film of this time period that it did a good job of portraying the minority.
One thing that i really liked about this film was that of the irony that was present throughout the plot. One point in the movie that i found the most irony was at the end when there were only two men still standing to guard the well and all of the German soldiers were walking towards them with guns raised pleading for water. . And the two men still guarding the well thinking there was no water left told them to have as much as they wanted. Coming to find out that the well had actually filled up with water. I thought it was a interesting twist.