![]() I'd love to help you, Colonel, but we just don't have any. and anything else you've been holding out on us, you piece of rat filth! I want 600 pairs of shoes and 1200 pairs of socks. Change your mind about that bottle I was talking about? The only thing you're to learn to do is to keep your mouth shut. Stab, not tickle! Hit me! Come on! You prissy little schoolgirl, you're the worst Soldier in this whole company, now hit me! No shame son, get up. Go on, go on, get over here, get over here. Thrust! Develop! Guard! You're not a dancing school son, take his head off! Thrust! Develop! Guard! Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, what have here? Bonny Prince Charlie and his little toy bayonet. So maybe it did change the world a little after all. French president Jacques Chirac finally approved the funds in 2006-apparently after seeing this film. Bouchareb apparently made Days of Glory at least in part to shame the French government into handing over long-frozen pensions to surviving soldiers and their kin. It all culminates in a small town in Alsace, where the four find brief respite before having to face a much larger and better equipped German force (this scene, as well as a final bit in a cemetery, carry heavy echoes of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan). Focusing in particular on four Algerians, including Jamel Debbouze as the naïve Saïd and Roschdy Zem as the lovestruck Messaoud, the films depicts how they are denied basics like food, mail delivery, time off, and such, effectively rendering meaningless the French ideal of liberty, equality, and brotherhood. The second theme is clearly the one that inspired Bouchareb in the first place: the eternal issue of race and discrimination (also explored in 1989's Glory, about black soldiers in the Civil War). ![]() But the battle scenes are well done the first major clash, on a bleak Italian hillside, effectively conveys the young Muslims' confusion and abject terror. Of the film's two principal themes, one, the horrors of war, is nothing new. Confronting the Nazis both in Italy and at home in 1943, the French Army recruits men from Algeria, then a French colony, and other North Africans to help out. This one doesn't, but director Rachid Bouchareb's World War II drama still makes for compelling viewing. Hype can be a dangerous thing, and the newspaper ads touting Days of Glory (aka Indigenes, French for "Indigenous") as "so powerful it changed the world" are nigh on impossible for any movie to live up to.
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