Great representation of PTSD flashbacks in my opinion. Starts off when the darkness kicks in and he can't recognize the faces. In that episode, Winters was writing a report about their assault on a German SS company at Crossroads. The German boy was the first he killed, and the one he got a direct look at before shooting him. Especially the minds of veterans will tend to wander off to remember the horrors, in almost disbelief of what he sees in civilian life. Currahee
I’m an Iraq war vet, and i know exactly how his character felt in that moment. I was home for about 6 months and while driving one day I had a flashback to a roadside bomb just looking at the curb out my window. Next thing I knew I heard hoking and yelling and realized I drove straight through a red light intersection, barely missing crossing traffic. Totally zonked out, lights on but nobody home. Flashbacks can be so real it’s like you entered a worm hole straight to the past.
Upmost respect and thank you for your service, Our servicemen and women were stationed in Paris in both WW1 and especially WW2 with the French people having a warm welcome being liberated after 4 years of occupation, 🫡
For me this is the most pivotal scene in the series. Major Winters lost part of his soul here by killing that kid in a german uniform. He's traumatized, depressed and full of regrets. War is hell. War needs to be ancient history
I think it's really sweet how the French boy is portrayed. He meets Winters outside the train station, saluting him and then admiring the medals and pins on his jacket. You can totally see it in his face that he was completely honored to be in the presence of an American soldier. He even examines his posture, imitating it as he looks away. Definitely one of my favorite scenes, thank you for the upload!
I think it would have been more powerful if there was a free French soilder, as it would show how even though the boy has had hardships and has suffer that it was his people that helped him and not others.
The Free French were a major power in taking back there home land. Although most of the free French troops were in Africa there were many spies and members who helped with the invasion of Normandy. If it wasent for there intelligence the Germans could have possibly pushed the Americans and British back into the sea
What’s even more gut wrenching is that for Winters the war looks to be almost over, but unbeknownst to him, he and his company are about to be whisked away into the toughest season of combat they had ever faced.
Very easy in the confusion of combat. Could have been literally the first time the young German had faced an enemy soldier. We all act weirdly or fumble under stress or in unexpected situations that we look back on and think "why the fuck did I do that?". And few of us are ever in intense, fast moving life and death situations like that.
It is so powerful seeing the way the horrors of war affects a man who is not a killer, not a savage. In Winters' case someone who wanted nothing to do with it, only wanted to be back on a farm in Pennsylvania.
One of the greatest war scenes in cinema history in my opinion. Shows the rawness and brutality of war even coming from a good man who has to do his job. It’s like the whole series came to a standstill when this scene is being watched. Heart gripping and teary eyes for me because I know stuff like this has happened more then it should have.
i’m currently on this episode and i loved it so much bc it felt so raw and real that i had to look for a clip on yt and see the comments 😩 i got goosebumps with this scene :(
Winter´s couldn´t stop thinking about the war,and about what he had to do,to kill germans(although he had to kill them),he is on leave but can´t forget what he lived in the war and battles.
I was in basic training for memorial day, and the drill Sargents played band of brothers from first thing in the morning, damn near till roll call at night (they were all out drinking of course) and this scene really hit after watching this guy's story play out for the whole day, seeing the people he cared about die, and lose his innocence, it was crazy to see this guy who would be held up as a hero not even feel right in his own skin anymore so far away from the fight, and it almost scared me when family day came and I just couldn't wait to get away from my family I spent the last 10 weeks missing, and writing letters too
Sometimes the aftermath is much worse than the event itself. At that that point he felt a detachment from everyone around him, the carriage lending itself to be almost over sensory, which triggered the anxieties for which he wasn't fully prepared to face. I think that soldier was the closest he ever came to the enemy, the innocence of that German boy looking back at him, smiling for moment....and then it was all over. A powerful scene I always remembered from the series. Sometimes you have to try and forgive yourself in life, and find someway to resolve, when moments such as these come back to haunt you.
This scene moved me more than any other scene in the entire series. I can't imagine the immense guilt and regret some soldiers felt at having to end the lives of young men who weren't even old enough to buy beer or gamble in the USA. Winters knows he was just doing his duty and that if he hadn't ended that young German soldier's life it could have potentially caused the dearh of a lot of US soldiers but that doesn't mean those terrible feelings that come with ending a life won't haunt him the rest of his life. Such an incredible scene.
I have a particular interest in how memories affect us as people. Though war ptsd is nothing compared to say, breakups. Its interesting how similarly our memories can weigh on us. Simple everyday things that objectively mean nothing can remind us of very specific painful times. Memories can replay in our heads endlessly, changing something that happened in seconds into an over-analysis that feels like hours in the head. Both radically changing our perspectives and personality.
He killed a young boy in Normandie... Just like that boy in the end of the train. I think this is a "-Oh my god,what am i done?!" scene. You can see that clearly on his face at 1:29
Snatching some zzzzzeds, sleeping while on picket. Soldiers take every opportunity to snooze when static (but taboo on OP, or Picket). Ive seen our fellas asleep during a patrol halt leaning up against a tree, hell Ive done it myself, with all field equipt on
for all the little 11 year olds who think war is awesome, that all u do is grab a gun and shoot some bastards. no that´s not it, war changes u its not fun it torments u for the rest of Ur life. take this for example, the last seconds of this boys life.just imagine looking at a young boy straight in the eyes and shooting at him before he coulg even realize u were an enemy soldier. then later u think , that boy had a life,a mom that loved him, a dad that supported him, and u took that all away. :(
I don't like war movies but honestly I have to admit that the acting in this fiction is great. I will NEVER understand how a human being can psychologically survive to the Hell on Earth called War. I will never understand...
Far from being a "War movie" , no disrepect intended but its an historical account of an American Airborne sub unit in WW2 . Thats why it rates highly.
+Semper Dignus Why would he shoot an unarmed kid?We can't pin all the evils of this world on one group-A captain leads men,sets an example is promoted on merit,qualities.My uncle was in the war and said"if the Germans could take you prisoner they would."
+20th century man The boy looks alot like my own son who's in the U.S. Army now.Perhaps Captain Winters reaction meant that it didn't happen this way.Both sides had good and bad in the ranks.I hope they both rest in peace.
Different take - if Winters spoke French, he might have told the French boy that he killed a German boy his age. French boy could have 'comforted him' with something like "War makes you do things that you regret later; because you're alive" or some sort.
It's a realistic interpretation of war and what it leaves behind. Your painting a rosy ideal which doesn't reflect what the soldiers coming home go through
How is that in any way relevant towards what you were saying; thats a strawman argument if I ever saw one. That entirely lies on the facial expressions of the actor, and its pretty clear to anyone else that is not what he is trying to convey. It certainly doesnt support your voucher for lazy riding to brighten up a semi-biographical war movie.
That German kid was so raw he didn't even recognize Winters as an American.
Great representation of PTSD flashbacks in my opinion. Starts off when the darkness kicks in and he can't recognize the faces. In that episode, Winters was writing a report about their assault on a German SS company at Crossroads. The German boy was the first he killed, and the one he got a direct look at before shooting him. Especially the minds of veterans will tend to wander off to remember the horrors, in almost disbelief of what he sees in civilian life. Currahee
God, when the kid smiled. He showed simple human connection that is so rare in war between 2 enemies. So heart wrenching.
The kid ain’t an enemy. France was occupied! He actually admires Winters, probably because he knew that Allies and the Resistance had freed France.
Carlos Alfaro Think he’s talking about the SS kid in the flashback. He smiled too
I’m an Iraq war vet, and i know exactly how his character felt in that moment. I was home for about 6 months and while driving one day I had a flashback to a roadside bomb just looking at the curb out my window. Next thing I knew I heard hoking and yelling and realized I drove straight through a red light intersection, barely missing crossing traffic. Totally zonked out, lights on but nobody home. Flashbacks can be so real it’s like you entered a worm hole straight to the past.
Upmost respect and thank you for your service, Our servicemen and women were stationed in Paris in both WW1 and especially WW2 with the French people having a warm welcome being liberated after 4 years of occupation, 🫡
For me this is the most pivotal scene in the series. Major Winters lost part of his soul here by killing that kid in a german uniform. He's traumatized, depressed and full of regrets. War is hell. War needs to be ancient history
BlaneNetherlands and history needs to be remembered so we don’t make the same mistakes
The most naive people believe a pacifist Utopia is possible.
@@DerWeisskunig Thats a funny statement lmfao
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In what way?
@@dylankope9595 know your history, before you are doomed by repiting it
I think it's really sweet how the French boy is portrayed. He meets Winters outside the train station, saluting him and then admiring the medals and pins on his jacket. You can totally see it in his face that he was completely honored to be in the presence of an American soldier. He even examines his posture, imitating it as he looks away. Definitely one of my favorite scenes, thank you for the upload!
He probably understood what Winters represented having had to grow up as a kid under Nazi occupation.
I think it would have been more powerful if there was a free French soilder, as it would show how even though the boy has had hardships and has suffer that it was his people that helped him and not others.
Zylath Then the story would be fiction.
The Free French were a major power in taking back there home land. Although most of the free French troops were in Africa there were many spies and members who helped with the invasion of Normandy. If it wasent for there intelligence the Germans could have possibly pushed the Americans and British back into the sea
Kaiser Wilhelm ll Zylath bro i hear you, but this is based on a book about essy company, not the french resistance, wich were heroes on their own
You can tell the kid was proud to stand next to an American soldier.
Classic depiction of PTSD before it entered the popular lexicon (this was released before GWOT).
Sri Narayan what's GWOT?
Global War on Terror. GWOT is the official acronym for all the military action we have conducted since 2001's invasion of Afghanistan
Back then it was called "shell shock". A more descriptive name IMO. Great scene.
I thought shell shock was a more severe version of PTSD? I could be wrong though.
2001 was NOT the 1950s PTSD is known at that time my dad got nervous breakdown n diagnosed with PTSD in 2001 the same year
What’s even more gut wrenching is that for Winters the war looks to be almost over, but unbeknownst to him, he and his company are about to be whisked away into the toughest season of combat they had ever faced.
0:58 Goosebumps every time.
This scene was unbelievable, hes such a good actor, they couldnt have picked someone better for his role
I read his Biography. He said the young soldier threw a grenade at him that didn't go off and he shot him. They left that part out of the movie.
It's possible the german soldier didn't want to kill either and couldn't bring himself to draw the grenade pin.
@@scribojello3778 that is unlikely. If he didn't want to kill he wouldn't throw the grenade.
@@VicTheFigGuy You don't know that. Could be the grenade was a dud, could be he never pulled the pin. Either way, it didn't matter, he still died.
Very easy in the confusion of combat. Could have been literally the first time the young German had faced an enemy soldier. We all act weirdly or fumble under stress or in unexpected situations that we look back on and think "why the fuck did I do that?". And few of us are ever in intense, fast moving life and death situations like that.
One of the most touching scenes in the series...thanks!
It is so powerful seeing the way the horrors of war affects a man who is not a killer, not a savage. In Winters' case someone who wanted nothing to do with it, only wanted to be back on a farm in Pennsylvania.
One of the greatest war scenes in cinema history in my opinion. Shows the rawness and brutality of war even coming from a good man who has to do his job. It’s like the whole series came to a standstill when this scene is being watched. Heart gripping and teary eyes for me because I know stuff like this has happened more then it should have.
band of brothers is really touching and deep.
one of the best scenes
Haunting. He relives that moment over and over. Consumed by the memory to the point he doesnt even realize the train stopped
Possibly the best scene from the show I have seen. Beautifully done.
"Monsieur, Monsieur c'est le terminus le train s'arrête ici on doit tous descendre" …
Thank you. "Sir...sir the train has reached the end of the line. We have to get off.".
@@kenobisghost9572 I figured what he said was something like that.
Merci!
This is one of my favorite scenes from the series...very powerful.
i’m currently on this episode and i loved it so much bc it felt so raw and real that i had to look for a clip on yt and see the comments 😩 i got goosebumps with this scene :(
man....damian looks awesome here ...as an officer
So sad it makes it breaks his heart just to see another young kid in public because the last time he saw someone that young he regretted it.
My favorite scene in the whole series.
Interesting how people who don't seek fights usually are the best combatants.
Winter´s couldn´t stop thinking about the war,and about what he had to do,to kill germans(although he had to kill them),he is on leave but can´t forget what he lived in the war and battles.
Best episode, possibly scene, in an excellent series.
Makes me cry every time
It's funny to think that the actual Dick Winters did not like this scene and thought that he was portrayed as "trying to pick up on the kid"
+Brent Pattison That's interesting considering it's one of my favorite parts of the entire show
what do you mean trying to pick up on the kid?
Brent Pattison i saw pick up on the kid and was like what? Do you mean he looked like he was flirtatious with him?
Orange Tortoise I thought I was pretty clear, Dick Winters said those words his memoir. He meant flirtatious.
in his memoir*
Gonna miss You Maj. Winters, Sir!
I was in basic training for memorial day, and the drill Sargents played band of brothers from first thing in the morning, damn near till roll call at night (they were all out drinking of course) and this scene really hit after watching this guy's story play out for the whole day, seeing the people he cared about die, and lose his innocence, it was crazy to see this guy who would be held up as a hero not even feel right in his own skin anymore so far away from the fight, and it almost scared me when family day came and I just couldn't wait to get away from my family I spent the last 10 weeks missing, and writing letters too
Sometimes the aftermath is much worse than the event itself. At that that point he felt a detachment from everyone around him, the carriage lending itself to be almost over sensory, which triggered the anxieties for which he wasn't fully prepared to face.
I think that soldier was the closest he ever came to the enemy, the innocence of that German boy looking back at him, smiling for moment....and then it was all over.
A powerful scene I always remembered from the series. Sometimes you have to try and forgive yourself in life, and find someway to resolve, when moments such as these come back to haunt you.
You put things into a nutshell dude. That is why is war is hell.
@woobinda65 This is actually non-fiction, Band of Brothers is a true story.
The realization that despite the tesson, the cause, you're still a killer. It saddens the spirit and diminishes the self.
This scene moved me more than any other scene in the entire series. I can't imagine the immense guilt and regret some soldiers felt at having to end the lives of young men who weren't even old enough to buy beer or gamble in the USA. Winters knows he was just doing his duty and that if he hadn't ended that young German soldier's life it could have potentially caused the dearh of a lot of US soldiers but that doesn't mean those terrible feelings that come with ending a life won't haunt him the rest of his life. Such an incredible scene.
Such a powerful scene.
They are immortalized now
I have a particular interest in how memories affect us as people. Though war ptsd is nothing compared to say, breakups. Its interesting how similarly our memories can weigh on us. Simple everyday things that objectively mean nothing can remind us of very specific painful times. Memories can replay in our heads endlessly, changing something that happened in seconds into an over-analysis that feels like hours in the head. Both radically changing our perspectives and personality.
So PTSD from seeing your friends die and get blown up and killing people is nowhere near as bad as getting your heart kicked in the ass?
Every time someone smiled at him it reminded him of the kid he killed.
Truthful and we never took care of them!
@woobinda65 peculiarities that really happened
1 disslike?? I think that man cried and clicked on wrong button :(((
I sometimes fat-finger a dislike, entirely possible
0:35 dukeman's body?
i dont mean to sound disrespectful or anything, but 1:00 sounds like a goddam lightsaber
😂
Which episode is this in? It's such a powerful scene, but for some reason, I don't remember seeing it.
Episode 5: Crossroads
@Theakker3B
Ok, it is taken from a true story but it is still a movie... with all peculiarities of a war movie
🇫🇷 boy say: Sir, it’s the terminus (Last Stop) We all have to leave.
Monsieur, c’est le terminus. On doit tous descendre.
Anyone know who the actor is that plays the young french boy?
盡心盡力的連長
2:08 Okay, that kid was about a second away from asking Winters "Hé soldat! Vous cherchez un rendez-vous?"
boys coming home after Taylor swift concerts:
You’re going to France captain winters. He a becomes major
Its the cut at 1:28 for me
Fuck me! The scars you don't see....
He killed a young boy in Normandie...
Just like that boy in the end of the train.
I think this is a "-Oh my god,what am i done?!" scene.
You can see that clearly on his face at 1:29
Which episode is this
What was the kid doing on the ground before he saw Winters?
Snatching some zzzzzeds, sleeping while on picket. Soldiers take every opportunity to snooze when static (but taboo on OP, or Picket). Ive seen our fellas asleep during a patrol halt leaning up against a tree, hell Ive done it myself, with all field equipt on
for all the little 11 year olds who think war is awesome, that all u do is grab a gun and shoot some bastards. no that´s not it, war changes u its not fun it torments u for the rest of Ur life. take this for example, the last seconds of this boys life.just imagine looking at a young boy straight in the eyes and shooting at him before he coulg even realize u were an enemy soldier. then later u think , that boy had a life,a mom that loved him, a dad that supported him, and u took that all away. :(
"but then you wake up the next morning, and you're still you. And you realize... that was you all along." - Bacho from Chernobyl
I don't like war movies but honestly I have to admit that the acting in this fiction is great.
I will NEVER understand how a human being can psychologically survive to the Hell on Earth called War. I will never understand...
Far from being a "War movie" , no disrepect intended but its an historical account of an American Airborne sub unit in WW2 . Thats why it rates highly.
Well done
1:22 What is that guy's name? I mean the actor's name. He's gorgeous
The german kid is Ricky Nixon
1:20 thats not my team.....oh(gunshot) :(
rip in peas
After seeing this clip France Surrendered
Did he kill a child ??
No, he shot a teenager that probably got drafted through the Hitler Youth and was sent into the Wehrmacht.
+Semper Dignus in other words he killed a child ,
Fundamentally, he shot a teenager, yes; he'd most likely have been mid to late teens, say 16 or 17.
+Semper Dignus Why would he shoot an unarmed kid?We can't pin all the evils of this world on one group-A captain leads men,sets an example is promoted on merit,qualities.My uncle was in the war and said"if the Germans could take you prisoner they would."
+20th century man The boy looks alot like my own son who's in the U.S. Army now.Perhaps Captain Winters reaction meant that it didn't happen this way.Both sides had good and bad in the ranks.I hope they both rest in peace.
Did the kid survive?
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Different take - if Winters spoke French, he might have told the French boy that he killed a German boy his age. French boy could have 'comforted him' with something like "War makes you do things that you regret later; because you're alive" or some sort.
It's a realistic interpretation of war and what it leaves behind. Your painting a rosy ideal which doesn't reflect what the soldiers coming home go through
Willy Wonka
Winters himself hated that scene; because he said it looked liked he was trying to 'pick up' the boy.
How is that in any way relevant towards what you were saying; thats a strawman argument if I ever saw one.
That entirely lies on the facial expressions of the actor, and its pretty clear to anyone else that is not what he is trying to convey. It certainly doesnt support your voucher for lazy riding to brighten up a semi-biographical war movie.
NO.
I know this is about his PTSD and it's not supposed to be gay but god do I wish it was ; w ;
Theres nothing sexual about PTSD, its a dark horror that takes up permanent residency in our mind.
ok
my exact thought goddamnit
@@ardshielcomplex8917 they're talking about the way he looks at the boy in the beginning
@@widepootis... That's a young boy. Winters is a grown man. That's not cute that's fucking weird.