There are some moments in life where you can sacrifice your life for the greater good but sacrificing your life for ww1 was a huge mistake in which talented young men lost their life for an impossible mission which was the Gallipoli campaign. At the start of the movie it shows Archie running against the man on the horse. This shows that Archie is willing to take risk but also have fun at the same time. Also through the start of the movie Archie shows roar talent and speed at the carnival where he wins the 1st place prize against his competitor frank.
This roar talent could of help him on a better path to really becoming somebody but instead he was pressed into the army because of the big light that was shining on the young men to help their country in a very hard time. If you didn’t sign up for the army you were considered a coward which was also really pressuring for the young men that didn’t really believe that joining the army would help solve anything.
Archie sign up for the white horse earl to see what the world was like from a different prospective, which was a sign for how desperate these young men were on getting out of Australia and to a different part of the world with different things to do and different people to meet. Ww1 made it sound like if you join up you were going to become a fully grown man which was a lie because death came quick in ww1 and half the people that were joining were about 18. War played a big part for a quest for adventure and become a lot different than people thought.
Boys become men. In the Gallipoli movie boys did in a way become men in a mature sense and it shows about half way through the movie when they are sent off to Egypt to get there training before there get sent off to the front line. Archie and frank become more mature as the movie goes on in which they have a sense of the war is like and that you can die at any moment so they had to live every day like it was there last which was shown through their time in Egypt.
By the time they actually got the Gallipoli the eyes of the men had been open and shown how brutal the war was and that you had to have your wits about you. When the boats where pulling in on shore you could see the terror in franks eyes, even when the boats where just pulling up to the very load beach there were getting shot at. Just think what Archie and frank were thinking about when there first put there foot on the soft sand and just knew this could be the last day the I live and I not ven with my family.
In the Gallipoli campaign Archie and frank lots a few close mates within a couple of days, this shows how mature you had to be and how strong you had to be to get over the amount of deaths they had to endure which hour every day. The boys become men also by taking orders that were just suicide but they did it any way for the good of the nation. It shows why these men are remembered for their bravery and we should never forget because they are the ones that help shape this country.
War a big part of our worlds history. War is the beginning and the end of the people how dedicated there life for the worlds good. Ww1 was not a lost cause but it was a terrible strategy that killed so many of our nation’s bravest men and put our country in danger in the last scene in the movie Gallipoli frank has just got information that can help save Archie but arrives to late and Archie and is battalion are all ready of and running for the Turkish trenchers.
Frank must have been thinking that was it a good idea that I was running and could have I run faster than I did. The movie ends with Archie dyeing and we do not know if frank has survived. I think that what it would have been like in ww1, you would of not know if your mates have survived or not. In conclusion ww1 was not a lost cause but a terrible strategy. The people of ww1 will never be forgotten.