6/9/2023 0 Comments Paths of glory cobb![]() ![]() Kubrick moves beyond simple statements and instead seeks to exploit war as a dramatic entity. The trite idea that “war is bad” is taken as a given, and augmented by multiple impressive cinematic and storytelling techniques into an even more powerful statement: there is an utter absurdity to war, one that incentivizes an habitual abuse of power and a routine miscarriage of justice.Ĭlassifying Paths of Glory as an “anti-war” film isn’t technically wrong, but it would be like saying 2001: A Space Odyssey is about space travel. The crux of the story involves three French soldiers who are court-martialed for cowardice after retreating from an impossible attack, but Kubrick’s story is not a mere anti-war film. Adapting a novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb, Kubrick’s film contemplates power struggles, justice, and the wastefulness of war. Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory is often celebrated as the director’s first true masterwork. Thomas Grey, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,1751 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. ![]() The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r,Īnd all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave, ![]()
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