That video we watched in the WWII and cinema class about that battle in Italy (San Pietro, I think it was) got me thinking. Most of the time, fighting in Italy is overlooked by current media and you only see fighting in France, Germany, and Japan in most movies, books, and video games. I know the video was real footage, but at the same time, it didn't feel real. The landscape was so unfamiliar compared to what I'm used to seeing when I see battlefields of WWII, and it being in black and white didn't help at all (I think that's mainly due to my generation). Did anyone else get the same feeling of it almost seeming unreal?
I also have another question, that maybe fellow classmates might have an answer to. In the footage, they showed battle and soldiers dying and it was being described as an intense battle, but how come it didn't look very intense? Was it because the camera-men couldn't make their way into the very front lines? That the ones who did died and their footage destroyed? Or was it that movies like Saving Private Ryan give me huge expectations on the intesity of battle? I'm sort of thinking it could be a combination of all three.
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