I have no idea why I didn't see this comment until now. My apologies!
But oh GOD, I resent about historical war movies the fact (and it is a fact, so I suppose I'm resenting reality) that it's the men who have had the honor and the terror of serving and suffering, and the women... must just react to them. Leave them or stand by them, understand them or fail to understand them.
That's one of the reasons I love The Gentle Sex (1943) so much: it is a war story to which men are not quite incidental, but of which they are certainly neither the center nor even the other half of the story.
I will one day write a story in which a man's going off to war was a cowardly escape from something tricky he didn't want to face at home--maybe a child born with a disability to his lover--and where the woman must struggle and be heroic on her own--maybe, herself, in a war zone, while he meanwhile whiles away the war at a desk job--and then he wants to come home and marry her and collect for himself a ready-made family (for some ignoble reason) but she, meanwhile, will have found the love of someone worthy and will have no time for him.
YOU TOTALLY SHOULD. I feel like there might be similar stories, but not specifically this one, and I am all for it.
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But oh GOD, I resent about historical war movies the fact (and it is a fact, so I suppose I'm resenting reality) that it's the men who have had the honor and the terror of serving and suffering, and the women... must just react to them. Leave them or stand by them, understand them or fail to understand them.
That's one of the reasons I love The Gentle Sex (1943) so much: it is a war story to which men are not quite incidental, but of which they are certainly neither the center nor even the other half of the story.
I will one day write a story in which a man's going off to war was a cowardly escape from something tricky he didn't want to face at home--maybe a child born with a disability to his lover--and where the woman must struggle and be heroic on her own--maybe, herself, in a war zone, while he meanwhile whiles away the war at a desk job--and then he wants to come home and marry her and collect for himself a ready-made family (for some ignoble reason) but she, meanwhile, will have found the love of someone worthy and will have no time for him.
YOU TOTALLY SHOULD. I feel like there might be similar stories, but not specifically this one, and I am all for it.