A movie that changed my life is Gallipoli. I saw it on video when I was a kid and remember the final sequence when they are all getting ready to 'go over the top' and basically, as they all well knew, be slaughtered.
That captured my imagination and has, in part, caused me to travel the world studying warrior cultures, with the same, consistent question: How do societies inculcate a desire, or at least a willingness, to kill and be killed in their young warriors?
This questions has fascinated me now for well over half my life and I continue to study it in detail.
Cheers,
Eisho
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