Wonderful movie! I just watched it on 11th Nov which is Remembrance Day here in Canada. Hungry for more, I googled the movie (and Harold Russell). Turns out Mr. Russell was born in 1914 as a Canadian in North Sydney, Cape Breton, NS. In 1921 his family moved to Massachusetts where he remained and is now buried. So he was in fact, a duel citizen, and one of us too.
This was an amazing guy, but those WW2/depression era guys all were, selfless. A lot of their kids didn't appreciate them because they were born into the prosperity they created. Give me just 50 of them, and put them in positions of leadership, and you'd watch the whole country turn around.
Harold Russell was an amazing guy. So many of this generation were. They answered the call and in less than four years changed the world forever. One slight correction, and certainly not to detract whatsoever from his contributions to the country - the video states “upon his return to the United States….”. Mr. Russell lost his hands in an explosives incident at Ft. Bragg NC, not in a combat theatre.
Sounds like the story of a country failing to provide its citizens - let alone its veterans and their families - free universal medical care. How disturbing to rebrand it as a feel-good love story instead.
It would have been disturbing if you saw me name it a love story between the veteran and his government or politicians. We all know how returning veterans suffer in many countries of the world if not all... But that is not the story of the video, right? It is a love story between two married persons who stood by each other all those decades despite the cruelty of the world and events that happened to them. Perspective is the key. The idea of a love story (whether a feel-good or not) is not necessarily where the characters of the story live in an ideal world. Actually it is never. In all love stories, there is good and evil and how two lovers challenge the world and situations. Right? I hope you can rewatch it from the perspective of the two lovers towards THEMSELVES, not towards the world, governments, or politics.
You completely miss the point of the movie. William Wyler, who flew in bombers during world war II almost losing his hearing completely, made a film that was to give courage and strength to a weary post-war America, and he did it magnificently. This is a human movie, not a political movie - Even though there are some snippets of disturbing societal realities presented. I don't go to movies anymore because they are either mindless comic books, or so heavy in their political message that they suck as good stories.
Just watched this film again last week and was curious about him! Amazing testimony to his love for wife Rita!💕
Amazing indeed! ❤️❤️❤️
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Wonderful movie! I just watched it on 11th Nov which is Remembrance Day here in Canada. Hungry for more, I googled the movie (and Harold Russell). Turns out Mr. Russell was born in 1914 as a Canadian in North Sydney, Cape Breton, NS. In 1921 his family moved to Massachusetts where he remained and is now buried. So he was in fact, a duel citizen, and one of us too.
wow, now that’s true love! Selling something very dear to his heart just to take care of his wife’s health 😮
100%... A brave and honourable man in war and in peace! ❤️
This was an amazing guy, but those WW2/depression era guys all were, selfless. A lot of their kids didn't appreciate them because they were born into the prosperity they created. Give me just 50 of them, and put them in positions of leadership, and you'd watch the whole country turn around.
You are very right. Patriotism used to be a built-in attribute within the souls of ancestors.
Harold Russell was an amazing guy. So many of this generation were. They answered the call and in less than four years changed the world forever.
One slight correction, and certainly not to detract whatsoever from his contributions to the country - the video states “upon his return to the United States….”. Mr. Russell lost his hands in an explosives incident at Ft. Bragg NC, not in a combat theatre.
Thank you for this! What a blessing!
Awesome, !!!!
Well done. Life comes before accolades
One great man
He was a Canadian from Nova Scotia, I believe.
Sounds like the story of a country failing to provide its citizens - let alone its veterans and their families - free universal medical care. How disturbing to rebrand it as a feel-good love story instead.
It would have been disturbing if you saw me name it a love story between the veteran and his government or politicians. We all know how returning veterans suffer in many countries of the world if not all... But that is not the story of the video, right? It is a love story between two married persons who stood by each other all those decades despite the cruelty of the world and events that happened to them. Perspective is the key. The idea of a love story (whether a feel-good or not) is not necessarily where the characters of the story live in an ideal world. Actually it is never. In all love stories, there is good and evil and how two lovers challenge the world and situations. Right? I hope you can rewatch it from the perspective of the two lovers towards THEMSELVES, not towards the world, governments, or politics.
You completely miss the point of the movie. William Wyler, who flew in bombers during world war II almost losing his hearing completely, made a film that was to give courage and strength to a weary post-war America, and he did it magnificently. This is a human movie, not a political movie - Even though there are some snippets of disturbing societal realities presented. I don't go to movies anymore because they are either mindless comic books, or so heavy in their political message that they suck as good stories.
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His wife low-key look like carolyn Bryant
True! Similar facial expressions and hari styles!
It was his second wife,
His first wife was his high school sweat heart who passed early in life.
Wife, Cigarettes and then the Oscar.