qoute:"The young midshipman lost a limb but perservered, a triumph of the human spirit" ..that's a very good and true way to look at it Wildeboy. That's the way I'll most likely see it when I give the movie another shot
To redefine my original question, I guess what I was actually asking is "did it bother anyone else?". Everyone react's differently to seeing certain things IRL or on screen. My reaction was to stop watching the movie. I think if you got past that particular scene without feeling or thinking anything, besides "oh that's life, poor kid.." then your dead inside, or you just scene it as really bad acting
quote: "The Napoleonic Wars are historical fact and many died or were wounded." ...that "fact" make's that sccene all the more powerful
Dude, I went to school. I know the history of the Napoleonic Wars. I know the world is a violent place. I'm not denying it, or saying that it shouldn't be depicted truthfully in movies or literature. I live in NY, and when the towers went down I wept. It broke my heart. I didn't need to see the crushed, burned, broken bodies for it to have an affect on me emotionally. My point being: just because we know the world to be a violent place doesn't mean we should just dismiss violence and stop feeling.
Again, I am not saying violence in movies is wrong. It's just sometimes, on rare occasions
, i feel something beyond the usual blood and gore numbness we train ourselves to feel.