Beau Travail

SKIN! I really wanted to leave this review there but I can’t help myself.  I do believe that movies about armies/war can be some of the best movies when done well. This is the best I have seen yet. A lot of movies about armies/war (especially American war movies) are very one sided and just war propaganda (e.g. Top Gun) and this is true for the vast majority of war movies. But I do think some war movies can very quickly get put in that same group when really they are showing how fucking easy it is to make war seem like something that’s normal and how ingrained that is in the American psyche (e.g. American Sniper (I know most people wouldn’t agree with that example but I truely believe if you think that movie actually glorifies that man and the war then you missed the point (I really do not like Clint Eastwood at all and he probably was just making a “Fuck Yeah America Guns We Are The Best At War Woohoo” movie but I think he accidentally did the opposite))) Anyway what a massive pointless ramble about something completely unrelated and I’m probably wrong anyway… I shouldn’t be writing this review whilst drunk. This movie is hardly about war at all.  Such a beautiful film. I may have just been wishing this was the case, but the whole thing felt like there was a lot of repressed homoerotic feelings (could have something to do with all the constantly half naked men idk). I think this is probably just one of the truest depictions of masculinity in the real world but fuck it let’s call it what it is.  Also possibly the best end scene I have ever seen in my life. I’m so sorry if you have read this whole thing (wayyy too many brackets) Fuck I did it again.  I promise I’m done now:)