A Long Days Journey Into Night

Rating: 8/10 (14 June 2008)

I felt that with this motion picture a difficult ability was made more difficult.There is no time perhaps even unto mans history when such battles were fought as was the days that engulfed the world in World War II.The Battles at Stalingrad and then Kursk would for those interested mark drama so deadly,the cost in life so extreme that it is cause to look again at the passing of time with but a steadfast eye.It is a serious affront to our place in matters of the world and as compelling as any death the likes of which have no equal lest there be the tolling of the bells with the onset of the "Black Death".It is a very difficult position in its entirety to allow all the days to be as these days whereby millions of people were removed from the earth and time merely stood still as there was no day to be tomorrow for today was enough.The tragedy was not to be extended it was to be protracted in an end time concern.The Red Army was triumphant though such triumphs should be warned against when looked at more closely because there was nothing its equal in the record of mans place in this world and though it is an expense, the cost was a cost that turned the tide of events of World War II.When Germany's 6th Army was defeated it was representative of the rolling back of the tide with the battle of Kursk looking like a serious attempt to merely establish a holding position.It was not to be for the German 6th Army was not to stop back pedaling perhaps it can be suggested until the days of this war were to be done.Though it is suggested by these comments that the German 6th Army was retreating it is a note to be certain that the retreating Army did not always look like a retreating Army.Those whose interests have ever eclipsed the War between the States here in the America's will know that with Robert E. Lee at the helm.Confederate forces provided for General Grant more than a handful of engagements that were so deadly that they had eclipsed a much more deadly engagement merely days before.It was during the days that followed The Battle of Gettyburg a retreating Robert E.Lee exacted a cost that though dramatic and even victorious was to serve notice as to those who followed for this was war.Indeed it was something from Abraham Lincoln which though somewhat shocked at the toll of these engagements was to say,"Grant Fights".The northern industrial might was a terribly important piece in determining the final outcome and indeed there was a real step up for the Russian Red Army that was supplied with so much that it just got bigger and bigger much like the Army of the Potamac under General Grant.Critical and dramatic were these events and one might suggest not unlike the other.This particular account in Enemy At The Gates is merely some Hollywood offerring which by no means allows us to know much of anything and as well everything sort of looks like everything else which is something that does not make anymore anything better.There is historical information that the account of the Russian defense at Stalingrad did benefit more than merely one expert sniper in Vasili Zeitsev,it benefited from an entire account as Russian sharpshooters were eating the Germans alive.Though Zeitsev is championed in this motion picture there were others whose accomplishments were even more so as there numbers were greater in confirmed enemy kills.There is mention of a film called "War of the Rats" whereby this very sewer to sewer,building to building,pipeline to pipeline served to undermine the German position and was instrumental in the German High Commands Decision to send for one of its very best Sharpshooters in a Major Konig.This particular film is useful at least for a time with this clever battle of wits that both sides waged with the arrival of Konig.If there was a moment whereby I judged this film it was in the moment of victory over a predator in this Major Konig as portrayed in the picture.I watched closely for an inability to know and was satisfied that indeed with a victory in hand there was no doubt in its execution.There is a real disadvantage that the public in General are victims of and some of this victimization is as a result of not knowing the truth nor possessing the will to know better than merely this kind of offerring.One of the areas not dealt with in a much the same way however the Russians had an expert Spy ring called Lucy which was so well informed that long before something was to happen they,the Russians were to be ready.It was in an account of the Battle of Kursk where some of these hitherto unknown strengths possessed by the Russians became evident.This film is somewhat reticent to discuss these areas and indeed as suggested this maybe merely an entertainment vehicle which I wish could find entertainment elsewhere.Hollywood belongs not on the field of the dead nor should such be made as to make money in performing as if to be something that this is not.This is not the real thing and it should not no not ever thought to be the real thing.It is thought that there was all this that occurred however there is in this film much exxageration with story telling more important than the story of The Russian Sniper Division so effective in disrupting German interests at Stalingrad that it may of in fact altered history.If this film did anything it forced me to do some research and it is this research that made this A Long Days Journey into Night.