The film ‘Gallipoli' accurately describes the conditions of the battle of Gallipoli during World War I. First, it does a great job of capturing the atmosphere concerning the recruitment of the young men who served in the war. They where encouraged to join and ‘shirking your duty' was frowned upon. Second, the living conditions of the trenches where amazingly lifelike in their appearance. The trenches where probably the single most remembered facet of the Great War. Thirdly, The British officer's disdain towards the infantry was also replicated correctly. The whole British officer's mentality was that infantry was expendable and that the Australians were mere ‘cannon fodder'. The movie touched on each of these points as well as gave us a
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