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54. no i obviously don't.

Show me any major, non-documentary movie about WWII made before about 1995, and with very few exceptions the soldiers are all gung-ho and full of life and bluster. They don't get blown to bits, instead they just fall. No one is shown having a nervous breakdown or suffering from the effects of war.

The best years of our lives, 1946

Running just under three hours, The Best Years of Our Lives offered ironic tribute to thje United States' conquering heroes....The Best Years of Our Lives is invested with the anxieties of return, the challenges to personal reconnection, and the physical and psychological fallout of armed conflict. As the Affrons cleverly note,

“Whether spectators were conscious of it or not, the measured pace of The Best Years of Our Lives asked of them a degree of attention unusual, perhaps unprecedented, in commercial cinema” (232).

America’s overriding patience with The Best Years of Our Lives suggests a general need for postwar catharsis. Without being ostracized as a “problem film” (i.e. a film exploring social ills; often characterized by the press as a “downer”), The Best Years of Our Lives went on to become the cinematic anthem for 1946, taking both the annual box office record and the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Affrons refer to the film as,

“simply the deepest, most moving, most disquieting, most authentically instructive portrait of the period” (201).

http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc52.2010/clepper1940s/index.html

But I do think there's a reason you selected WW2 rather than any other war.