Connor Roy was interested in politics at a very young age
(I’m sure someone’s written the Cameron Frye/Connor Roy essay by now)
But no, no I didn’t come into this expecting to find a character that I related to that much that I just organically started crying in time with him.
Having seen… a lot… of them at this point, it still blows me away that one of the best war films ever made came out in 1925. It is a century old and it easily ranks in the top five in the medium.
You’ll see bloodier, you’ll see flashier, but you’ll be hard pressed to find many that hit you deeper - especially that last fifteen minutes or so (plus it’s also just impressive as hell for 1925).
One of the greatest moments in all of cinema is when Marius Goring looks at the camera and says “one is starved for technicolor up there.”
I’m such a hopelessly romantic sucker that this hits every time. That ending is just one of the sweetest ever put to film.
