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If only they spent half the time bandaging that wound...

posted 4 years ago by Rorikon (16364)
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Maybe Lance Corporal Blake would've survived. Could've applied pressure and not move the body. Take off all his clothes or use the bayonet to cut the clothes (can't recall if they still had it attached after the bunker trap explosion) then apply a bandage wrap around his waist. He literally died when there was literally people nearby not long after he died. Blood was gushing or rather being soaked up like a paper towel.

One thing to take away from this movie is to never trust the enemy. From the German pilot then to the young German who saw Lance Corporal Schofield while the other was drunk throwing up outside.

[–] pelosfx (134) 4 years ago

I'm pretty sure the director wanted to make a point there, the whole randomness of wars and how close help was and still they missed it

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Yea, they didn't hear a whole battalion nearby with lorries , kinda silly error , made the film a bit hard to believe, but well, I guess that's cinema.

[–] Strazdas (2328) 4 years ago

Pretty sure that this portrays tunnelvision. Will was so focused on his friend he ignored everything else.

[–] Strazdas (2328) 4 years ago

A stomach wounds like that... with the medicine level of the time and measures avialable in the field.... He wasnt going to survive it no matter what they did. In fact he got out easy, those wounds are very painful and tend to last a long time. There was a torture method in WW2 by stabbing stomach a person may lay in agony for hours.

[–] Paperboy (127) 4 years ago

It looked like the stab hit him in the liver, there was no way for him to survive that then. Even if it hit him somewhere else on the torso he would have lost too much blood to survive, before receiving sufficient medical care.

What irritates me is why they didn't disarm the enemy pilot, that's the first thing you do if you capture an enemy soldier.

[–] Maximus256 (62) 3 years ago

Yeah, they made a few mistakes. But its understandable under the conditions (e.g. hunger, lack of sleep, fear, anxiety, death looming at every step, weirdness of empty battlegrounds and abandoned German trenches & equipment, dead rotting bodies everywhere, etc).

If it was me, I would have simply shot that crashed pilot in the head as soon as I figured out he was the enemy. With the urgency of my mission, I would have had no time, energy, or motivation for escorting prisoners through enemy territory.