Hargreaves: Why did you volunteer?
Hamp: King and country.
片名无法不让人联想到欧文的战争诗篇:The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est-Pro patria mori.
片头引用了A.E.豪斯曼的战争诗篇:
Here dead we lie,
because we did not choose
to live and shame the land
from which we sprung.
Life, after all, is nothing much to lose.
Though young men think it is,
and we were young.
When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts
Will be reduced to lists of dates and facts,
And long before this wandering flesh is rotten
The dates which made me will be all forgotten.
-- John Masefield