12019-02-03T22:33:01+00:003.x41 Guadalcanal Diary1Guadalcanal Diary (1943)plain2019-02-03T22:33:01+00:00The shirtless Alvarez rests his head on Potts’s chest, while Potts’s arm rests casually behind Alvarez’s back. Instead of craning from marine to marine to marine, the film has pared the person-to-person shot to an absolute minimum, simply panning from one man to another and later panning back again, suggesting a bond that is so intimate it is almost erotic.