![]() The Deep Dive: For those wanting a broader and richer journey. For a undiluted anti-war gut-punch, then find the director's cut of the 1981's Das Boot. ![]() ![]() For a more romantic, adventurous, and positive spin, I recommend 1943's Destination Tokyo. Submarine Spectrum - Destination Tokyo (1943) / Das Boot (1981): Turning to the submarine story, you have two films that comprehensively cover what life on a submarine is like, but each do so from a different perspective.To get the best introduction to the life of a surface ship I recommend the comprehensive coverage of 1953's The Cruel Sea (the Master and Commander of WWII) and the intense focus of 2020's Greyhound on what it was like for a naval convoy to travel to Britain under U-boat attack. Instead, I offer two double viewings for each of the major types of naval stories. Surface Ship Classics - The Cruel Sea (1953) / Greyhound (2020): The quality and variety of this category make it nearly impossible to suggest just one simple movie as the best in class.If humans view traversing the skies as something done with wonder and freedom, traversing the sea often feels more like a mythical challenge that brings what seems like inevitable doom for those who undertake it. Our ships are little floating islands of civilization in a vast sea of chaos. The sea reminds humans that we are not in control. Our naval vessels may traverse the giant sea, but seem to do so only by leave of the ocean a permission that can be rescinded at any given moment. It reminds me a bit of the mysteriously affective opening shot of the dark and deep ocean in Titanic. Introduction: The 1960 film The Gallant Hours opens with a haunting choral theme, "I knew a lad who went to sea and left the shore behind him. I knew him well the lad was me and now I cannot find him. Away, away, away he went, in deep and salty water." The theme seems to stir up something in the listener and touch that strange and mystical connection humans have had with the sea for thousands of years.
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