Paths of Glory one of the most committed works to humanism.
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On the occasion of last night's broadcast on TVE 2 of Paths of Glory, I would like to point out that I have once again enjoyed one of the most humanistic works ever filmed, because every time I saw it, I found nuances and details that I had overlooked, and it moved me again as it did the first time.
Kubrick was obsessed with perfection, despite his youth, and here he presents us with a chilling document inspired by real events, although based on a novel by Hannes Staudinger.
The making of the film contained many elements that would later become hallmarks of his later work, allowing us to discuss them all as a coherent whole.
The British essayist and poet Samuel Johnson once said, "Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels."
Colonel Dax (the brilliant Kirk Douglas) alerts the incompetent General Mireau, ordering him to adopt a hostile posture, with devastating warnings.
The ill-fated military operation was previously instigated by the depraved General Boulard, a party-loving, food-loving tycoon (the great Adolphe Menjou) who promises to promote the ambitious Mireau (George McCready), thus fueling the ambition.
It is no coincidence that the technical aspect of the work is the magnificent black-and-white photography by George Krause, which deliberately demonstrates the proximity to expressionism: the film was shot in Germany and produced by several German technicians.
It is one of the few American anti-militarist films that does not have lofty patriotic values and brutal mortal struggles for ideology or territorial conquest.
The war is seen as a hell of cowardly bureaucrats giving ridiculous orders from behind their desks, do-it-yourself patriots, useless and petty, whimsically allowing themselves to judge the cowardice of innocent soldiers to mitigate their incompetence, hypocrisy and how defiance of the truth triumphs with impunity in pantomimes or mock court-martials.
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