The Message

          It was interesting to watch how two movies from two different times examined the same subject: war. Because of the change in culture from the creation of one to the other, these movies handled the same subject in very different ways; the post WWII movie was proud of the American's successful and heroic involvement in the war, while the post Vietnam War movie portrayed war in a much more terrible light. Media is a means of spreading a message, so conventional political thought is a strong undertone in both films we watched, and most others.
          These two war movies are excellent examples of the way political sentiment influences works of media, and how the change in popular political thought over time is reflected. Each can almost be classified as propaganda, one for and the other strongly against war. Assuming that all, or most, movies carry an underlying political or general message, movies from the post WWII era and the post Vietnam War era would strongly differ, as would movies from any different time period.