https://cinephiliabeyond.org/ballad-iron-coffin-wolfgang-petersens-das-boot/ Films and Filmmaking Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:43:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/ballad-iron-coffin-wolfgang-petersens-das-boot/#comment-346 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 14:38:00 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=29820#comment-346 This is, I think, The best war movie ever made. As Tim O’Brien wrote in The Things They Carried, “A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things they have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.” Das Boot is all that.

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