This film is very Pro-America and makes an argument, definitely in a propagandist way for fighting and killing foreigners in defense of the American way of life that allows you to pray to begin with. It’s almost a film that is trying to pump up the American public to go to war in World War 2, before Pearl Harbor.
The films of this time period definitely shift for the American war effort. It is confirmed by the fact that American men went directly from the movie theater to military recruitment centers.
Everything about this movie focuses on the positive rewards of war. The scene selection shows the main hero winning from his attempts at combat, selectively showing people dying when he’s around so that it heightens his sense of heroics rather than shed light on the cost of war.
The filmmaking is dated and pretty standard fare in terms of the shots, style of editing and use of music. Citizen Kane really pulled the curtain back on what you can do with a camera and the traditional methods aren’t going to cut it anymore.