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Sasoon's Regeneration and Saving Private Ryan
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REGENERATION SYNOPSIS The unfortunately all-too-familiar story, this time, is set during World War I, and is peopled with real characters and places. Siegfried Sassoon, the noted poet and anti-war protestor, is, paradoxically, also a British war hero, laden with medals. One day he simply can stand no more of the senseless killing and writes a letter of protest to the authorities that is widely publicized. Military higher-ups, anxious to have his actually quite sensible protestations taken as the ravings of a shell-shocked madman, have him sent to the military hospital at Craiglockart, Scotland, where he encounters the caring psychiatrist William Rivers. Dr. Rivers has a bevy of "loonies" for patients, each more bizarrely disturbed than the other, but the film focusses on Sassoon and Billy Prior, a working-class man who has become an officer, a feat in classist Britain, but whose horrible experiences in the trenches have caused him to become mute....
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