I love the flow and pacing of the Director's Cut it takes its time,and does not feel like typical Hollywood formula "first major plotpoint at minute 12" cookie-cutter routine. Patriotism formy own country would tend to make me hate the crew on this ship bydefinition (especially if portrayed as typical mindless killing machineNazis), but these characters are so well developed and played likehuman-beings facing difficult decisions that I find myself sympathizingwith these guys. What impresses me the most about the film, as the title makes apparent,is that it's a German made film about a German U-boat. Story is a 10, direction is a 10, acting is a 10 and the cinematography is a10. Drama, tension and resolution occur naturally in Das Boot, which contributesto the very real impact of the film. The director lets the story shock and horrifythe audience, not by forcing it, but by letting the story just tell itself. Everywhere, all around is War, but for thesemen as we witness them, war does not begin with a capital "W". Here, it is the smallmoments which fill the screen. Theseoften succeed in the immediate response (usually crying) but fail to impactthe viewer on anything more than a surface level. So often, films which aspire to move the audience quicklyfall into melodrama, over-acting, and overblown images. Part of the "power" of the film comes, I think, from a certain restraint inthe direction. Tosay this film is "powerful" seems so weak a description. How few films are there which affect the viewers on this level. I could not shake the images, and now some fifteenyears later, I still remember how completely meaningless the movie madeeverything seem, and the nihilistic message stayed with me for a long, longtime. When I woke in the morning, I felt as if I were escaping through thehatch of the submarine. I saw this film when I was a freshman in college during a weekend that Ilater dubbed my "depressing movie festival." (The Wall and Apocalypse Nowwere the other weekend "entries.") Of these films, it was Das Boot thathaunted me-when I laid down at night, I saw Jurgen Proctow's pained blueeyes. Here is a moviethat explores heroism, duty, patriotism, hope, fear and the futility ofwar-all grand themes-explored in the confined, and collapsing, spaces of aGerman u-boat. Maybe it istrue that epic themes make the greatest novels and films. Subtitle Das.x264-.mp4ĭas Boot is not just a great war film: it's a great film period.
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