“Gallipoli”
Peter Weir’s “Gallipoli” is a very moving anti-war film for all Veterans, Australians, and the entire world. Individuals and Nations alike are affected by the movie. Any outlook on war and duty will no longer be questioned after watching this movie. Weir uses both historical and some fiction in this film. He portrays Australia and its ideas and character through a few young Australian men who join up to fight during War World I. The biggest part or the focal point on the movie takes place at the battle of Gallipoli in 1915-16. “The allied powers were attempting to control the sea route from Europe to Russia, but they failed miserably” (Historychannel.com). This is the background Peter Weir uses to film a movie about two young Australian soldiers, Archie and Frank. It is through these two young men that Weir demonstrated the duty to country and the loss of innocence. Archie and Frank are both young soldiers who come from different backgrounds, and they both have a different outlook on values. Archie is a young man of purity and innocence. He is an excellent sprinter and has high hopes of going to the Olympics. However, he feels his responsibility…show more content… It was certainly not a heroic journey as propaganda had pictured. Their innocence was lost in the trenches of Gallipoli. The reality of war and its destruction hits these two soldiers “square in the face.” As Frank and Archie lay in the dirty trenches at Gallipoli Peninsula, what they encountered shook their beliefs about war and its devastation.
The futility of war closely relates to innocence, and the audience is aware of this as Weir used the repeated motif of watches and clocks. From the beginning of the movie, Weir has established the importance of time: Frank and Archie’s race, Archie’s running time, and Archie’s race, the watch and the whistle-all relates to
