'The Bridge On The River Kwai'

My problem with older war movies is how the Allies were depicted compared to the Axis powers.

This is a slippery slope. You borderline compliment or excuse Nazis if you go a certain direction.

The truth is, for a majority of soliders fighting in wars, they're a bunch of kids that can barely shave thrown into trenches, formations and battlefields, scared shitless and having no real clue what they're heading towards. Which is destruction.

There's a gigantic difference between Goebbels and Himmler and the German 18 year olds freezing to death in Leningrad.

"The Bridge On The River Kwai" bothers me because it forces us the idea that the Allies were oh-so noble, good and smarter than their Japanese captors. If you really look at it, the Allies were extremely pretentious for a bunch of guys that were caught and the Japanese seems overly kind and willing to bend rules. I mean, all they wanted a was a stupid bridge.

Then to make the Japanese commander look like a total moron seemed like an unnecessary cheap shot. That guy wanted what every British or American soldier wanted: To just go home.