Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them, pines away.
No, but a son does share kisses with his mother and father early in the film. The one with his mother is, surprisingly passionate- but the tonage is not at all romantic. This scene could make some viewers somewhat uncomfortable though.
While the Ending ending is not explicitly sad (romance kiss kiss whatever), the events leading up to it certainly are. The lead up to the ending contains a scene that is incredibly tragic and made me cry, and the events that follow as a result of that scene are heartbreaking.
Some characters are injured or killed and blood is Sometimes shown. It's all black and white, but some may still find it disturbing if they have an aversion to blood. There is no gore shown whatsoever- only blood.
There is a misunderstanding between two characters that causes one of them to think the other is cheating maybe. But it's very clear to the audience- and pretty soon that character- that this is not the case.
A man falls to the ground in a parachute. He hits the ground hard and goes limp. As well, some planes fall out of the sky after being damaged heavily. It is very much implied that the pilots within these planes hit the ground and die, but they probably already died before that point.
bones can be heard crunching at one point in the film (see: Does a head get squashed?), but there is practically no audio gore aside from this one instance.
A man is crushed to death after a tank runs over a machine gun nest (at around 1 hour and 52 minutes in) and bones- or something- can be heard crunching. However there's no blood or gore that you see, and no heads are squashed specifically (it can be assumed, though). This scene is brief, and easily skippable.
In a scene set in Paris, a character recklessly drinks to the point of hallucination during a party. The titlecards around this time imply that the goal of this drinking and partying is to "forget" about war, and the terrible things they've seen.
No, but there is a bizarre characterization for one character who's Dutch. He is constantly discriminated against by other characters until he reveals his american flag tattoo. He's often the butt of jokes, and is shown to be rather dumb. It's very strange to be certain, but there is no antisemitism.
Very mild. Early on in the film, you can see the butts of men as they line up for physical examinations while enlisting. Later on, a woman is getting dressed and she is walked in on- but you don't see anything. Sometimes in the backgrounds of shots in barracks, you can see pinup photos, but that's about the extent of it. Some references are made to sex, but nothing too overt, and it's never out of the context of the scene.
Constantly. However these are not modern day passenger planes, but fighter planes. Still, watching some of the planes hurl themselves out of the sky or crash into one another is harrowing. This is not a good film to watch if you're afraid of plane crashes.
Very much so. There is constant gunfire, people are shot, machine guns and rifles are used, etc, etc. If you are sensitive to gun violence, this film may not be for you.
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