After watching this film, I felt that the director and the screenwriter must have been soldiers and went to the grassroots level. I checked it and found nothing. It pointed out a common problem in the training of world-class military personnel: the officers trained by academies are not close enough to actual combat, cannot mix with the grass-roots soldiers, and have no authority. From my point of view, there are a few details in the movie to describe this phenomenon. The platoon leader of the field platoon - that is, Lieutenant Ralph, was completely overhead. When the superior gave an order, Sergeant Barnes directly bypassed it. He gave orders to other squad leaders, and he couldn't do anything except to vent his dissatisfaction in private. In daily life, he tried his best to get along with the soldiers, but the soldiers were very disdainful of him. In the end, he randomly ordered the shelling and was directly deprived of the combat command by Barnes. He was dissatisfied, but he was helpless and even didn't care about everything. He wanted to go back alive and take off this military uniform. In the last battle of the film, when he was assigned to a squad to fight, he directly said that he didn't care about everything.
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