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like lambs to the slaughter?

posted 10 years ago by nhunter
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Around the 1:56 mark of the Criterion Collection DVD, there's a quick cut between a military parade led by a marching band, and a flock of sheep running down the center of the street, seen through Micky Roczinsky's camera. The implication seems to be that the soldiers marching in the parade are like a flock of sheep sent to slaughter. I'm surprised not to have seen this point raised in any of the discussions of the movie I've read.

[–] Steve Crook 10 years ago

Those sheep aren't being led to slaughter, but they are behaving like sheep. That's how I had always read it.

You probably didn't see any comments on it because most people would have thought that it's so obvious it wasn't worth commenting on

Steve