Peter Weir - Gallipoli (1981)

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Gallipoli (DVDrip - 1981)
107 min | XviD 704x304 | 1633 kb/s | 192 kb/s mp3 CBR | 25 fps | B-VOP |1.4 GB 3% recovery record
English | Subtitles: Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese .srt | Genre: War/Drama | RS.com
'Gallipoli' is the story of two young sprinters who join the war effort in Turkey during World War I. There have been countless war films in cinema history covering the different wars, the horrors of war, etc. What is unique about this story is its probing of two young friends and their journey into the military effort--unlike other war films, which deal directly with the war, 90% of this film follows the journey of these two young men before they transfer over to the war. The special quality of this is that the viewer gets to know these two protagonists very well and their humble lives in Australia--which makes the tragic ending all the more devastating. The last 20 or 30 minutes of the film is spent at the Gallipoli peninsula, inside the war trenches. The generals vainly send men running toward the enemy and they are swiftly slaughtered. These scenes demonstrate the horrible truth of war, that healthy young men with lives ahead of them are destroyed forever in a single, pointless instance.

A Young athlete takes a dare. A handsome runner in the first bloom of youth, he agrees to race barefoot against a bully on horseback, even though the odds are stacked hopelessly against him - and even though an important contest he has been training for is only days away. He cuts his feet badly while outrunning the hor e, but not even the bruises can lessen his bravado. So when the day of the major race arrives, he runs triumphantly. And when he decides, on this same day, to enlist in the army, he does so with the same reckless, buoyant self-confidence that induced him to compete with the horse and to court disaster.

Peter Weir's ''Gallipoli,'' follows this young Australian and others like him to the fateful World War I battle of the title. Beginning with the footrace, and ending with the amphibious military maneuver that proved so catastrophic for the British and Australian forces, the film approaches the subject of war so obliquely that it can't properly be termed a war movie. Besides, it is prettier than any war film has ever been, which makes its emotional power something of a surprise. Mr. Weir's work has a delicacy, gentleness, even wispiness that would seem not well suited to the subject. And yet his film has an uncommon beauty, warmth and immediacy, and a touch of the mysterious, too.

Touches of the mysterious are certainly Mr. Weir's stock in trade; in ''The Last Wave'' and ''Picnic at Hanging Rock,'' the bewildering, magical elements outweigh all else. In the more sweeping ''Gallipoli,'' he relies successfully on a greater naturalism, so that the story of his young soldiers has the easy, uncomplicated momentum of a tale of action.

Yet the more elusive images, though infrequent, are those for which the film is best remembered. The soldiers are first fired upon while they are bathing, and Mr. Weir's underwater shot of these surprised, naked young swimmers in reddening water is one of his loveliest and his most disturbing. So is the image of the night landing at Gallipoli, with boats full of soldiers waiting quietly, utterly in limbo, enveloped in a blue mist.

Much of ''Gallipoli'' has the ring of a chronicle of boyish exploits, albeit an unusually good-looking and sweet one. Archy (Mark Lee), the handsome blond runner of the opening scene, becomes fast friends with Frank (Mel Gibson), a more ironic, less golden-limbed fellow, who happens also to be a track star. Together, they journey from rural Australia to Perth, traveling across blindingly white desert (another of Mr. Weir's striking images) to reach the post where they plan to enlist. Their path also leads to Cairo, where Mr. Weir stages a long sequence of soldiers' experiencing their last carefree moments at the bazaar, a sequence at once comic and touching. Mr. Weir, whose other films have had their share of mumbojumbo, shows himself here to be well able to work in a forthright and engaging manner. Janet Maslin, NY Times

Mel Gibson ofrece una impresionante actuación en la convincente historia de amistad y aventuras entre dos soldados australianos en 1915. Ambos cruzan continentes y grandes océanos, escalan las pirámides y caminan por las milenarias arenas de Egipto para unirse a su regimiento en la fatídica batalla de Gallipoli. Hechos históricos se entremezclan con el destino de los amigos, al formar parte del legendario enfrentamiento entre australia y los turcos aliados de los alemanes, durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, una batalla que para los australianos es el equivalente de El Álamo para los norteamericanos.

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