This is a natural film, because there is no lone hero, no wise colonel, no brave lieutenant, no love story. Some are just the emotions and desires of ordinary soldiers, while others are excitement, loneliness, fear, and loss. This cannot even be called a war movie. There is no battle scene from beginning to end, and no Iraqi soldier is even seen. Only the American soldier who has been killed by mistake has died. What you see is just a group of American boys baptized by war.
This is an objective film. I wanted to use justice to describe it, but I found that justice itself needs a criterion, so justice is self-contradictory. The objective is that the film has no political color, no deliberate patriotism, no deliberate anti-war sentiment, and no vilification of Saddam or the Iraqis. It describes how people react to war.
This is a detailed film. The film has quite a lot of spectacular scenes, but the director is not obsessed with the big scenes. Many scenes are trivial stories about the lives of soldiers, expressing delicate feelings. The sound of the film is also top-notch, so you must watch it in a wide-screen, good-quality theater.
The film’s male lead Jake Gyllenhaal is a rising star in the United States, and he performs well in the film. I will see it appear in another movie in the near future.
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