Video: Toy Soldiers After the Real War: Project Dorothy
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Toy soldiers are the favorites of every boy. In what battles they did not participate! Here you both force the couch, and storm the kitchen table, while my mother was absent from the phone (the Khlebnitsa fortress, by the way, held the siege for a long time). Plastic fighters either died or came to life, but they lived exclusively in military life. The campaign ended - all the march to the box-barracks until the next campaign. The American collective "Dorothy" decided to show what would happen to the gallant toys after the real war.
The idea to create a set of original "Casualties of War" toy soldiers came to the "Dorothy" members two years ago. Then one of the American media - "Gazette" from Colorado Springs - published a report under the same name. A detailed article described how the life of the soldiers of one battalion changed after returning from Iraq. And the picture was very unpleasant.
Fights and stabbing, alcohol and drugs, domestic violence and suicide - these are the lives of yesterday's soldiers, according to the Gazette. They are 20 times more likely than their peers not affected by war to commit murder - and suicide. The losses of the American army in Iraq and Afghanistan, the New York Times already writes, are three times less than the number of soldiers who committed suicide after returning from there.
When the count goes to the lost generations, it is no longer possible to turn a blind eye to this. The heroes of E. Remarque and E. Hemingway, knocked out of the life of the First World War, the bitter “I know, no fault of mine” by A. Tvardovsky and “Enemies burned down their home” by M. Isakovsky - the result of the Great Patriotic War.
In a relatively peaceful time, the type of a former soldier periodically flashes on television screens. Almost every Soviet film has a special episode - "an echo of war", even if the picture is not about that at all, as, for example, "Autumn Marathon" by G. Danelia or "Garage" by E. Ryazanov.
The real hell for a soldier begins after the war, according to the Dorothy team. Using toy soldiers as an example, they show that it is impossible to return to the past perception of the world, having crossed out the experience of survival in battles. Plastic figurines on stands tell sad stories about what happened after the words "The end of the film", what is the actual ending of a battle canvas about forced heroism, what is the toy truth of the war.
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