Film Review for "Gallipoli".

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Film Review for “Gallipoli”

Peter Weir’s Gallipoli follows two idealistic young friends, Frank (Mel Gibson) and Archy (Mark Lee), who join the Australian army during the First World War to fight in the ill-fated Battle of Gallipoli in Turkey. Through the first half of the film you are introduced to the main characters. You learn of their personalities and beliefs as the film follows their lives leading up to their deployment. The second half of the film chronicles life, and death, in Gallipoli as the two young men adapt to life in the trenches on the Turkish peninsular. Here they find nothing was as they anticipated it to be.

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Strong imagery and the stirring sense of adventure in Gallipoli assist in expressing the main themes of the film. One of the themes is heroism tied in with courage which is seen in the actions of the Australian soldiers. Not obliged to enlist these men did so to fight in a war which was in no way their own. When there they continued to display persistence and courage in the face of sure and imminent death. Another theme is the film is the comradeship between the soldiers. Although this theme is not limited to the pair, in the film ...

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