I can't say I didn't enjoy the atmospheric elements in this movie yet it remains the sole thing I can talk highly of. Despite knowing how loved this movie is, I genuinely couldn't make myself like it even.
The characters feel... empty? Devoid of complexity and substance. They have been tried to look complex with their motivations and life crises and everything, but it just does not work. Characters feel like stereotypes made to look 'interesting' rather than actually being…
both the source of and cure for an existential crisis. although i haven't experienced a hallucinogen-induced sense of 'connectedness', this is my closest -and sober- substitute for it.
I have been procrastinating watching this movie for the longest time. It sat on my watchlist for months until I allowed myself to experience this.
It is one of the most difficult movies to review, or simply ponder on. It consumes your mind and consciousness to the core. Such evil, dread, agony, trauma, gore, anything and everything unimaginably disturbing packed into the veil of the concept 'war' is unpacked with this movie. You genuinely 'see' war for what it is…
