Word: realism
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Better than any book before or after, it created a believable social backdrop for the Spanish civil war, described the barbarous excesses of both sides with uncommon realism and candor...
...surrounded each moment with infectious attitudes from the ruling class and their culture ... We must, as Mao Tse-tung has pointed out, wash our hands several times each day. It was in its departure from socialist realism, with all its ironical possibilities, that the Piggie story laid itself open to the adoption of ruling-class snobbery about pig meat...
Shakespeare's power of characterization and realism is strongest in his treatment of the lower classes, and it is here that the comedy draws its chief interest. The high-flown poetry of Part I is absent, and it is left up to the actors themselves to develop Shakespeare's rough drafts of the comic characters. This is the Brattle staff does with consummate skill...
...perhaps, a moviegoer may suspect, some things that it cannot). But the fighting takes place on the bravado level of an adventure story, e.g., Wayne dives overboard to swim to the rescue of a downed fighter pilot. Even on that level, the film develops little suspense. By applying realism to technical jargon rather than to such essentials as character, mood and incident, the picture never conveys the submariners' sense of danger, confinement and (except unintentionally) deadly boredom...
Much of the picture is easily the best job yet done on the infantry fighting of World War II. In Technicolor photography that lent itself to little intercutting of real combat footage, Director Lewis Milestone has staged his battle scenes with jarring realism and vigor. By borrowing the brilliant camera technique of his own 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front, he has filmed them with sweep, surprise and rhythm...