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bombardment upon seeing grey clouds on a rainy day and with her running to rescue her
husband. The film turns back to point where it started. That is, it starts with the representation
of dropping of bomb and finishes with the same representation. Unlike Pearl Harbor
Rhapsody in August does not explain political superiorities, justified reasons for war, the
beliefs their countries will gain and does not draw definite lines between good and bad. It only
tries to show how helpless human being is against badness while trying to tell that the world
is full of badness. In Pearl Harbor, while the movie finishes with Evelyn’s words “time pieced
together our souls and we pulled round somehow. Everybody understood the power of
America. Grandmother Kane cannot pull around and runs to indefiniteness. Time could not
pull round her soul. The trauma she experienced exerts itself years after.
Thus cinema just as mentioned in the beginning of the study mounts and reflects the
elements it collected for real life on the curtain and influences mental worlds of people. It
helps to remove ideological doubts. This is an indication of the fact that in spite of artistic
features cinema has, it has turned into a political domain as a result of being means of mass
communication. Especially at the time of war when great traumas are experienced, cinema, on
the one hand, consoles, comforts and cleans off consciences and minds, on the other hand it
lead to their questioning. Is the cinema being turned into a device which with the artificial
memories it created prevents us from seeing the reality?
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