Responses to World War I in European Culture: “A Very Long Engagement”

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04/30/2009

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Table of Contents Responses to World War I in European Culture: “A Very Long Engagement” Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The film by Jeunet
    1. A magic-realist style
  3. Why the perceptions of war changed so much during the 1st world war
  4. Contrasts between horrific violence in battlefields and ideas of cultural resistance in peacetime
  5. A late 20th century spin given to the traditional representations
  6. the appearance of chocolate in the gruesome sequences
  7. Conclusion
  8. Works cited

Abstract

war and love could be said to be polar opposites. However, in the film "A very long engagement (2004) by French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the two intertwine, as the main character, Mathilde, a young woman with polio, begins a search for her lost love, a French soldier who was sent into No-Man's Land by French authorities with four others, when they all tried, in various ways, to go A.W.O.L. Taking place after the war, the film mixes the cultural milieu of post-world war I France with gruesome scenes of trench warfare, revealing the emergence of a decided anti-war sentiment, which Mueller contends is a product of late 19th century and post world war I shifts in cultural consciousness.

Prior to the 19th century war was seen as inevitable, a part of life. By the end of the 19th century, those who still proposed war as a positive, enriching experience, believed any war that would be fought would be characterized by the achievement of brevity: two or three month long wars at the max would be all that would be required to achieve its aims.

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