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329:question:329--week_11_questions_comments-2020 [2020/11/05 12:41] – [III.How does the film’s overall interpretation(s) deviate from scholarly historical sources?] 73.40.104.245329:question:329--week_11_questions_comments-2020 [2020/11/05 14:08] (current) – [I.How does this movie work as a secondary source? What does the movie get right about history?] 72.43.62.101
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 This film was a surprisingly decent depiction of postwar attitudes after WWII highlighting many of the problems and struggles faced by veterans returning home. **The production of the film itself's proximity to the war and being contemporary to the time it represents lends credit to its ability to portray some of the major fears and conflicts of the time such as the fear of another postwar depression, fear of the effect of soldiers entering the workforce, and concern over the growing nuclear threat and rising tensions with the Soviets.** I like that the film is clear not to cookie-cutter all soldiers into one group but rather portrays the experience of several different veterans throughout the film and their postwar experience, even addressing the experience of those disabled in the war through Homer. They showed some of the PTSD faced by returning soldiers through Fred, and also the increase in divorce rates after the war. I was overall very impressed with the film and think it can serve as a good look into a veteran's and their family's experience in post-WWII America.  - Ashley Dimino This film was a surprisingly decent depiction of postwar attitudes after WWII highlighting many of the problems and struggles faced by veterans returning home. **The production of the film itself's proximity to the war and being contemporary to the time it represents lends credit to its ability to portray some of the major fears and conflicts of the time such as the fear of another postwar depression, fear of the effect of soldiers entering the workforce, and concern over the growing nuclear threat and rising tensions with the Soviets.** I like that the film is clear not to cookie-cutter all soldiers into one group but rather portrays the experience of several different veterans throughout the film and their postwar experience, even addressing the experience of those disabled in the war through Homer. They showed some of the PTSD faced by returning soldiers through Fred, and also the increase in divorce rates after the war. I was overall very impressed with the film and think it can serve as a good look into a veteran's and their family's experience in post-WWII America.  - Ashley Dimino
  
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 +**I think an interesting discussion to have could center around weather or not this film really can even be considered a secondary source.** Its written when it was made, and while some of it is an outside interpretation of other people's experiences, it still gives their perspective on their own time. Thus, I would argue that it cannot be considered a secondary source at all. **Since it is interpreting it's own time, the film by it's very nature is just one type of primary source, not a secondary one**. -Ethan
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 +By casting Harold Russel as Homer, the filmmakers, I think, created a historical source of their own. Russel was an actual vet who actually lost both of his hands. He actually used hooks like those in the film for the rest of his life. Thus, Russel's performance - especially, since he was not a professional actor - is his own unique, contemporary expression of the struggles of disabled veterans. -Ethan
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 This film probably works better as a primary source than any other film we've watched this semester. The fact that it was released a year after V-J day and V-E day says a lot in regard to being a primary source. **There was a lot of uncertainty about how America was going to function after the war, and there were fears of the economy reverting back to how it was in the thirties, and the film does a good job in portraying that.**  This film probably works better as a primary source than any other film we've watched this semester. The fact that it was released a year after V-J day and V-E day says a lot in regard to being a primary source. **There was a lot of uncertainty about how America was going to function after the war, and there were fears of the economy reverting back to how it was in the thirties, and the film does a good job in portraying that.** 
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