OBIECȚIA DE CONȘTIINȚĂ ÎN FILMUL DE RĂZBOI (AL DOILEA RĂZBOI MONDIAL)
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN THE WAR MOVIE (WORLD WAR II)

Summary/Abstract: Generally, through the questions it raises, philosophy has given cinema a rich reservoir of inspiration. Particularly, the theme of war gets an obsessive attention from the cinema. However, the conscientious objection, an important philosophical aspect of the war, is marginally treated in cinematography. Of the approximately 1,300 World War II films, only 1% discusses conscientious objection to war. The current article investigates this short list, providing, in the first part, a theoretical framework of the concept, through a diachronic foray into the debate on conscientious objection, which intertwines historical casuistry and theoretical perspectives, and in the second part an illustration and an analysis of how cinema has transposed the issue of conscientious objection in artwork. The research underlying this article reveals a two-folded philosophical significance of the war film centered on conscientious objection, despite the negative aspects that the industrialized culturalization through cinema may imply: on one hand, it raises awareness of the commonly marginalized matter of the conscious objection, on the other hand, it seeks to solve the critical stake of accommodating the right to conscientious objection, hardly acquired by objectors throughout history and still treated superficially by society.

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