Word: schulkind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...culmination of the film is the Battle of Agincourt--the wartime victory against the French which every young English Schulkind cherishes and commits to memory. However, Branagh explores the complicated ironies of the triumphant underdogs. With long and short shots, we see the full-scale massacre of chaos as well as the upclose bitterness and mudspattered savagery of war. Branagh's final elegy is a tragic pacan to the misery of battle. Corpses strewn across the fields in a violent fashion are a gruesome testament to the brutal pain before us. Branagh plays up the ambiguity--he lets us recognize...
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