Welcome to Thursday Movie Picks, a weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves where each Thursday you have to pick three films to match the week's topic.
And it's finally World War II week. I know it's creepy, but this is my favourite war. It was horrible and those things should have never happened, but it's not my fault if it's a fascinating period. But I'm not alone, filmmakers think that too. So while I struggled to pick three films for WWI because it isn't very interesting and there aren't a lot of films about it, I struggled this week as well because, guess what, too many good films and only three picks. I had a hard time choosing, but here's my picks.
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Jewish Italian Guido, his wife and his son are deported to the Auschwitz camp, and to help his son survive the horrors of the holocaust, Guido tells his son that it's just a game and the winner takes a tank. Simply a masterpiece about love, and optimism that delivers the message promised by the title, life is beautiful. I watch this film every year, and it keeps getting better and better. My mother who doesn't like war movies loves it too.
The Great Escape (1963)
A group of Allied prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempt of World War II to escape from a Nazi prison camp. This film has everything, action, comedy, adventure, drama, and can be divided into two part, the planning of the escape and the actual escape. Some think the first part is too slow, long and tedious, but I think it's the best part of the film. The second has Steve McQueen's spectacular escape scene on a motorcycle though.
The White Rose (1982)
A group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of the Nazi government and for a resistance cell, die weisse Rose (the White Rose). I've seen this film ages ago and only recently I've remembered about it, but I do remember it was very well done film portraying some real heroes. I just had to pick it.
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