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* TanksButNoTanks: averted, unusual for a low budget indie. The tanks in the film are actually historically correct M4 Shermans, Tigers, and PanzerKampfwagen IVs. Some of the special effects are less than convincing, but the creators put in at least a modicum of research on the basic vehicle types.
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* TanksButNoTanks: averted, unusual for a low budget indie. The tanks in the film are actually historically correct M4 Shermans, Tigers, and PanzerKampfwagen IVs.[=IVs=]. Some of the special effects are less than convincing, but the creators put in at least a modicum of research on the basic vehicle types.
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* ATragedyofImpulsiveness: One of the timelines is fuelled by this. [[spoiler: Roland's senior captor has an irrational mean streak (one of ThoseWackyNazis ) to the point we see him urinating on the sleeping Roland. He is later victim to his irrationality when he battles Roland hand to hand and is then murdered by his rear gunner ( ItMakesSenseInContext ).]]
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* ATragedyofImpulsiveness: ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: One of the timelines is fuelled by this. [[spoiler: Roland's senior captor has an irrational mean streak (one of ThoseWackyNazis ) to the point we see him urinating on the sleeping Roland. He is later victim to his irrationality when he battles Roland hand to hand and is then murdered by his rear gunner ( ItMakesSenseInContext ).]]
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* NonActionGuy: Roland may actually be this, though probably not the intent of the screen-writer. The film attempts to treat combat stress in a realistic manner without overt heroics, and so the main character comes off as passive. Circumstances are against him, as the Kasserine Pass battle was historically a defeat, and thus Roland can only pass on orders to retreat and [[spoiler: watch helplessly as his unit is killed one by one.]] It doesn't help that he spends most of the post-war timeline staring wordlessly past the camera, wrestling with his inner demons. Even in a dinner party scene, he meekly watches the others argue about the war. His only real action is to [[spoiler:shoot a dog that bites one of the children at the house party]].
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* NonActionGuy: Roland may actually be this, though probably not the intent of the screen-writer. The film attempts to treat combat stress in a realistic manner without overt heroics, and so the main character comes off as passive. Circumstances are against him, as the Kasserine Pass battle was historically a defeat, and thus Roland can only pass on orders to retreat and [[spoiler: watch helplessly as his unit is killed one by one.]] It doesn't help that he spends most of the post-war timeline staring wordlessly past the camera, wrestling with his inner demons. Even in a dinner party scene, he meekly watches the others argue about the war. His only real action is to [[spoiler:shoot [[spoiler: shoot a dog that bites one of the children at the house party]].
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* TanksButNoTanks: averted, unusual for a low budget indie. The tanks in the film are actually historically correct M4 Shermans, Tigers Tigers, and PanzerKampfwagen IVs. Some of the special effects are less than convincing, but the creators put in at least a modicum of research on the basic vehicle types.
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Thousand Yard Stare (2018) is a Canadian indie film about an American soldier who fights in World War II. Roland Rothach is a lantern-jawed sergeant in the Big Red One, but a bad day at the Kasserine Pass has changed his life forever. Three different story threads from three different periods are intercut. As one might deduce from the title, the theme of the story revolves around a ShellShockedVeteran.
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Thousand Yard Stare (2018) is a Canadian indie film about an American soldier who fights in World War II. Roland Rothach is a lantern-jawed sergeant in the Big Red One, but a bad day at the Kasserine Pass has changed his life forever. Three different story threads from three different periods are intercut. As one might deduce from the title, the theme of the story revolves around involves a ShellShockedVeteran.ShellShockedVeteran.
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* NonActionGuy: Roland may actually be this, though probably not the intent of the screen-writer. The film attempts to treat combat stress in a realistic manner without overt heroics, and so the main character comes off as passive. Circumstances are against him, as the Kasserine Pass battle was historically a defeat, and thus Roland can only pass on orders to retreat and [[spoiler: watch helplessly as his unit is killed one by one.]] It doesn't help that he spends most of the post-war timeline staring wordlessly past the camera, wrestling with his inner demons. Even in a dinner party scene, he meekly watches the others argue about the war. His only real action is to [[spoiler:shoot a dog that bites one of the children at the house party]].
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* CurbStompBattle: Kasserine Pass was historically this, and the film shows German Tiger tanks and infantry wreaking havoc with the Americans.
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* [ATragedyofImpulsiveness]: One of the timelines is fuelled by this. [[spoiler: Roland's senior captor has an irrational mean streak (one of ThoseWackyNazis ) to the point we see him urinating on the sleeping Roland. He is later victim to his irrationality when he battles Roland hand to hand and is then murdered by his rear gunner ( ItMakesSenseInContext ).]]
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* [ATragedyofImpulsiveness]: ATragedyofImpulsiveness: One of the timelines is fuelled by this. [[spoiler: Roland's senior captor has an irrational mean streak (one of ThoseWackyNazis ) to the point we see him urinating on the sleeping Roland. He is later victim to his irrationality when he battles Roland hand to hand and is then murdered by his rear gunner ( ItMakesSenseInContext ).]]
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: And how. When Roland [[spoiler: is captured, for just one example. For some reason two German pilots tie him up and cart him off across the countryside, then when they reunite with their ground forces, Roland is tied up in a tent like Indiana Jones instead of being turned over to the German military police or put in a POW cage.]]
* [ATragedyofImpulsiveness]: One of the timelines is fuelled by this. [[spoiler: Roland's senior captor has an irrational mean streak (one of ThoseWackyNazis ) to the point we see him urinating on the sleeping Roland. He is later victim to his irrationality when he battles Roland hand to hand and is then murdered by his rear gunner ( ItMakesSenseInContext ).]]
* [ATragedyofImpulsiveness]: One of the timelines is fuelled by this. [[spoiler: Roland's senior captor has an irrational mean streak (one of ThoseWackyNazis ) to the point we see him urinating on the sleeping Roland. He is later victim to his irrationality when he battles Roland hand to hand and is then murdered by his rear gunner ( ItMakesSenseInContext ).]]
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* EarnedStripes: the audience is left to simply conclude that Roland has gone from sweater-vested journalist to hard-bitten platoon leader without a real sense of how he got there. All the audience sees is that he has stripes on his sleeve and no one else does.
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*AFatherToHisMen: possibly played with. The audience is probably supposed to presume this relationship to be the cause of Roland's survivor's guilt, but there is so little dialogue and characterization that the audience never really detects any bond between them.
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* SergeantRock: studiously avoided. The psychological effects of combat are given a realistic treatment. There are no heroics, just chaos and grisly suffering.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: the badlands near Drumheller, Alberta fill in convincingly for the Tunisian desert.
* DesertWarfare: Certainly referenced - the battle of Kasserine Pass takes place in Tunisia.
* DesertWarfare: Certainly referenced - the battle of Kasserine Pass takes place in Tunisia.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: the badlands near Drumheller, Alberta fill in convincingly for the Tunisian desert.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: the badlands near Drumheller, Alberta fill in convincingly for the Tunisian desert.
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Thousand Yard Stare (2018) is an indie film set in World War II. Roland Rothach is a lantern-jawed sergeant in the Big Red One, but a bad day at the Kasserine Pass has changed his life forever. Three different story threads from three different periods are intercut. As one might deduce from the title, the theme of the story revolves around a ShellShockedVeteran.
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Thousand Yard Stare (2018) is an a Canadian indie film set about an American soldier who fights in World War II. Roland Rothach is a lantern-jawed sergeant in the Big Red One, but a bad day at the Kasserine Pass has changed his life forever. Three different story threads from three different periods are intercut. As one might deduce from the title, the theme of the story revolves around a ShellShockedVeteran.
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* AnachronicOrder: Three timelines run concurrently. Roland begins the movie trying to exorcise his demons by writing about the war. The film flashes back and forth, to scenes before, during, and after the battle at Kasserine Pass, jumping around in the sequence of events for dramatic effect.
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Thousand Yard Stare (2018) is an indie film set in World War II. Roland Rothach is a lantern-jawed sergeant in the Big Red One, but a bad day at the Kasserine Pass has changed his life forever. Three different story threads from three different periods are intercut. As one might deduce from the title, the theme of the story revolves around a ShellShockedVeteran.
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!! This film provides examples of:
* ShellShockedVeteran: Roland is definitely one of these, or at least, we presume so. There is actually little dialogue in the film.
* DesertWarfare: Certainly referenced - the battle of Kasserine Pass takes place in Tunisia.
* CaliforniaDoubling: the badlands near Drumheller, Alberta fill in convincingly for the Tunisian desert.
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Thousand Yard Stare (2018) is an indie film set in World War II. Roland Rothach is a lantern-jawed sergeant in the Big Red One, but a bad day at the Kasserine Pass has changed his life forever. Three different story threads from three different periods are intercut. As one might deduce from the title, the theme of the story revolves around a ShellShockedVeteran.
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!! This film provides examples of:
* ShellShockedVeteran: Roland is definitely one of these, or at least, we presume so. There is actually little dialogue in the film.
* DesertWarfare: Certainly referenced - the battle of Kasserine Pass takes place in Tunisia.
* CaliforniaDoubling: the badlands near Drumheller, Alberta fill in convincingly for the Tunisian desert.
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