A Midnight Clear
This movie was taken place in December of 1944. The movie is from the point of view of William Knott and he often narrates it adding personal thoughts. It is about a group of 6 men who are sent to go to an abandon to see if there are any German forces near.
They live in the house for a few days and they decide that it is better than living at the camp. They each take turns watching the house and one day, they discover a German camp by their house. They keep an eye on them and even when they meet face-to-face, the Germans don't shoot them.
Will misplaces the map and they find it on a snowman that the Germans built. After shooting at it, they realize it's nothing. The Germans come out of hiding and one of them throws a snowball at the Americans. They have a little snowball fight and that's when they go down to look at the snowman. On the hand of the snowman is the map that was lost. It has 12 hundred hours on it and a place marked out. They think it is where the Germans want to meet them. After debating, they decide to go.
They meet the Germans and they want to see the Americans commander. They dress up a soldier as a commander by putting stripes on his sleeves and then he goes and talks to the Germans. There is an American soldier who can speak German so he is a translator. They learn that the Germans want to surrender, and that they aren't Nazis, but just a German group. They want to have a pretend fight so that the Nazis don't kill their families because they were wimps.
They decide on the "battle", but an American soldier they call mother, doesn't know about it. They didn't tell him because he had been depressed about the death of his baby. The battle is all ready to go. They start off by giving the signal and then all the soldiers would fire. Then, after about 2 rounds, a German soldier is shot. After that, both sides are shooting at each other and 2 Americans are shot, but all the Germans are dead.
The soldier they call father is shot and Will runs to him, but he quickly died. The other soldier was taken away and they find out later that he also died. The real commander comes and they take away the soldier that was still alive and give orders to the rest of the men. There was going to be another attack and they were to stay there and then leave when it happened. That's what they did and they took father with them.
They drive back to where there camp used to be, but it was no longer there. They keep driving until they run out of gas. They walk with father and find a camp that buries father.
I thought this movie was good. I could tell how the soldiers felt when they were away from their families and what it was like on the battle field. Even though there really wasn't that much fighting, it still took guts to do what they did and they had to have a plan of action.
Mother and father in fox hole.
Comments
Good job Tara!