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ldhensonOriginally I had a lot of new shows I wanted to catch/catch up on this week, but instead I've been spending my time watching The War...or at least as much of it as I can handle in one sitting. I've been thinking about taping it for viewing in smaller pieces, but I know myself: I probably won't find the guts to sit down and watch it later.
Don't get me wrong: it's very well put-together, and I'm watching partly out of interest, partly out of respect. But by nature it's hard to sit through, and though Ken Burns doesn't dwell on graphic imagery, neither does he shy away from it. I watched the final two-thirds of "A Necessary War" (actually the first episode, but between the couple of local PBS stations I've been watching the series all out of order) last night, and it kept me up for several hours afterwards. The closing story, in which a Guadalcanal veteran describes hearing an unknown man in his unit slowly bleed to death over the course of a night only to find out in the morning that it was his best friend, is utterly haunting.
If you have a chance to catch this documentary, I highly recommend it.
Don't get me wrong: it's very well put-together, and I'm watching partly out of interest, partly out of respect. But by nature it's hard to sit through, and though Ken Burns doesn't dwell on graphic imagery, neither does he shy away from it. I watched the final two-thirds of "A Necessary War" (actually the first episode, but between the couple of local PBS stations I've been watching the series all out of order) last night, and it kept me up for several hours afterwards. The closing story, in which a Guadalcanal veteran describes hearing an unknown man in his unit slowly bleed to death over the course of a night only to find out in the morning that it was his best friend, is utterly haunting.
If you have a chance to catch this documentary, I highly recommend it.
