War is not entirely passionate heroism. It is more full of self-selection, self-contradiction and scrutiny of human nature in a forced environment, full of confusion, self-interest, cowardice, mistakes, judgments..., the protagonists. It's just a microcosm of some of the most real people in the war.
It is ridiculous to require that the protagonist of a war film must be a typical individual heroist, and war is inherently unattractive. Of course, the director cannot ask the viewer to empathize with it from the perspective of a person who has experienced it.
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