When they go crashing down the side of a steep forest hill, the camera goes with them. The camera gets right up close to the actors playing these men, and gives you quaked, quivering images. It’s so narrowly focused on a single incident during the war in Afghanistan you can’t see past the stress in the faces of the film’s four Navy SEALs. Some war movies see only soldiering heroes and want us to set aside the larger questions of costs and outcomes for celebrations of courage. But some look past moral philosophy and budgetary excess. Apocalypse Now still looks like it cost as much as the Vietnam War. Many depict the waste of life and money with a profligacy of their own. Most war films convey a sense of the grand futility of it all - the death and destruction, the endlessness and possible pointlessness, the mutation of any political, religious, or social objective. ![]() What responsibility do the movies have to faithfully or accurately depict war? To some extent, none.
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