Despite the subjective color, both the narrator SWOLFT and the director have the status of outsiders/bystanders, and are able to keep a distance from the narrated object and become detached and calm. The film is not sculpted, and has an objective recording style. Stripped of illusory brilliance and design of war portraits, the most obvious influence comes from Kubrick's "Full Metal Shell", the setting of training scenes and war scenes in the first half of the film where misery and carnival coexist. There is a sense of space / mise-en-scene, and there are traces of tribute to Kubrick, but it lacks his sense of form and sarcasm.
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