What’s amused me in this regard is that it predates Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon by a full year. It mainly revolves around events that had already happened and us learning how they got there through flashback. One of the most interesting aspects of this film is its storytelling convention. I don’t know if that’s what the film is trying to convey, but its at least what I kind of took from it. Which if it is that, is pretty crummy and disappointing as it feels disjointed with what the film set up. While the film does seem to be opening up and focusing on that ideal and hitting it pretty good, I feel like film’s final result however ends up being something along the lines on “too bad, you big baby, its gonna happen, suck it up and deal with it”. President Truman had signed an order to have the United States military full integrated in 1949 and I thought this film was presenting some of the issues that may have been thought to come along with that integration. I thought it was a film tackling some discrimination in the military. I was a little confused watching Home Of The Brave as to what the ultimate message of the film was. Finch is captured by the Japanese, but when they are able to rescue him its too late. He is wrought with guilt over the death of his friend Finch during the mission. The story tells one of some discrimination and trying escaped a botched reconnaissance mission. He talks with his psychiatrist through the events, trying to discover what made him lose his ability to use his legs. Home Of The Brave primarily tasks itself with being told through the flashbacks/memory of one Peter Moss, a black soldier in the war who comes back from a special mission with an unexplained paralysis. He’s an actor I’m sure our younger readers see the name and go “who”? The one bit of interesting that it had from me going in (I’d never seen the film before) was getting to see that of a young Lloyd Bridges. This one deals with some racial issues during that of World War II. As it stands, there are actually four feature films with the title Home Of The Brave. No, this is the Home Of The Brave from 1949. No, this isn’t that terrible movie with 50 Cent, Jessica Biel and Samuel L Jackson from 2006. Olive Films will release Home Of The Brave on Blu-ray May 13 in celebration of Memorial Day.
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