Yesterday was Memorial Day, the day we remember all those who fought and died in different wars. There was a war movie marathon on TCM, but I had seen most of those movies. So I bought a DVD at Borders of an obscure war movie from 1967 called "Beach Red" which I had read was very good, it was supposed to be a World War Two movie unlike any other. So I watched it last night. And it was really interesting. It's a very low budget movie, sometimes it looks kind of amateurish, but it has some good things. It gets into the character's minds so you know what they are thinking in the middle of war (family, sex, women). It also shows war from the point of view of the common Japanese soldier, showing they shared the same dreams and hopes. It was the first movie ever to do this.The ending is interestng, it tries to copy the famous butterfly scene from "All Quiet in the Western Front" and it works. All in all, a pretty interesting, offbeat movie that reminds you of the horror of being in the middle f battle and that no matter if you agree with the reasons for war, one must agree that the men and women who fight it, are courageous people indeed.
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