Warfare

I feel that I should preface with a few things. This movie was a bitch to pirate. Once I figured it out, it had Russian subtitles and a title card that read "RGB" floating across the screen throughout the entire movie. I watched this fucker at 10am. The only reason I watched this movie in the first place was because I had a disagreement on this website about the film and its message. I had never seen it and had no intention of watching it, but after that encounter I felt that I should. There were really no thoughts to gather about this movie that haven't already been gathered. It's terrifying, and I had to force myself to keep watching it. I saw lives ruined before lunch. The disagreement about the movie was over the pointlessness of the film. Can a film with no character development do justice to the atrocities of war? My answer is yes. This movie encapsulates the fear of death that I can only imagine for a soldier. The feeling that disregards whether what you're doing is right or wrong; you do what you're told or there's a fair chance you're being killed. You go in blind because you don't know as well as your superiors. If you question or hesitate, you die. My feelings about war are already defined, so that's what I take from this movie. But I think this movie is so open-ended that you can make whatever you want of it. For me, I see the effect of violence in the very real characters. They needed no development; they're based off real life. The hour and a half felt like thirty minutes, because nothing really happened. This was a tense near-death experience that displays how terrible death and war can be. Whether it's unnecessary is up to the viewer.