‘Vandea. triumph or death” – movie review

‘Vandea. triumph or death” is simply a historical action movie depicting another side of the French Revolution. The planet premiere took place on 8 December 2022, and went to Polish cinemas a year later – 29 December 2023. It is worth noting that on December 27, another 350th anniversary of the apparitions of St. Margaret Maria Alacoque concerning the message about the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which suggests that the date of the premiere was not accidental.

The film's name is derived from the region of France located in the central-western part of the country. It is simply a communicative told by the eyes of the local conservative population, which becomes an army of counter-revolutionists in opposition to fresh power. The killing of the royal household and its supporters, as well as thousands of priests and faithful, is bloodyly meaning and building a fresh image of France. The fall of the monarchy evokes an insurgency among peasants who rebel against Republican tyrants of the guillotine, in the name of Catholic and national values. The Catholic and Royal Army is created, on which the Most Holy Heart of Jesus appears. To this day, this image remains a symbol and is surrounded by peculiar respect by French Catholic and conventional environments.

I enjoyed showing the interior transformation of the main character of the film, François de Charette. A young wartime officer of the erstwhile Royal Navy. movie François de Charette is at first skeptical to the outbreak of the uprising. Wandian peasants almost forcefully call upon him to take command of the branch. Initially reluctant François de Charette in the first months of the uprising will not only prove that he is an excellent soldier, and will besides become the charismatic leader of the insurgent army, who is willing to sacrifice himself in sacrifice to the ideals professed. Gradual de Charette turns into a hero without fear, who fights to the very end. Before his execution, he asks for confession, rejecting the temptation of suicide. He yet suffers martyrdom by shooting, then is buried in a mass grave. The another characters of the movie besides appear to be the primary people who, in the hr of rehearsal, put everything on 1 card. They decided to leave home and their loved ones to stand for a bloody fight in defence of the principles that have been the foundation of their country for years. The insurgent branch, despite its age differentiation, shows a certain relay of generations, with a single goal and common conventional values.

Interesting in the production of this movie was besides the usage of the dream motif, which gives it an onic character. The main character enters a polemic with a small boy. He doesn't realize who he is at first. In time, it turns out that it is threatened King Louis XVI, who was yet executed, despite the signing of the treaty and the plentiful arrangements of Republicans with counter-revolutionarys to keep him alive and hand him over to the vandals, which was a condition for peace. The dream was to be prophetic and give it a certain character of the mission to be accomplished.

Mass executions, killings and Republican government in the name of passwords Freedom, equality and brotherhood shows the tragedy of the French Revolution and the scale of the genocide that was committed during its course. Vandian oppositionists fighting Republicans in which losses happen on both sides confirms that the revolution devours its own children. And it's kind of a historical reminder of that.

One of the disadvantages I see in production is the poorness of the conflict scenes, which stem from low budget effort. However, the movie echoed in France. In Poland, too, he was well received and is very interested. possibly this is due to the fact that this part of the communicative about the French Revolution is small known. In past classes, it is improbable to talk of Catholic vandeans who have raised national uprisings. In my opinion, there was besides a deficiency of a biographical outline of respective insurgents, any of their private parts, which they had to sacrifice to join the branch, which makes it hard for the viewer to identify with the presented characters.

In conclusion, I think it is worth seeing the movie “Wandea. triumph or death.” It promotes heroic attitudes, principity, and devotion to conservative values, that is, everything that in the planet now globalized goes to the lame and tries to be replaced by Hollywood gibberish. Low commercial potential, deficiency of wide distribution is the consequence of the inaccessibility of the movie in all cinemas, especially for irony, provincial cities. The scale of the promotion besides remains a question of debate, but in spite of the increasing number of curious people looking at “Wandei”. You're right. I have the impression that the modern viewer peculiarly needs to see something worth fighting for and to realize again what it is to sacrifice life on the altar of free Homeland.

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