That's because not every war - or war adjacent - film needs to do that. - Simon Dillon

…asionally strike, but it’s almost immediately diminished by a return to buoyant joking and hijinks. We aren’t given space to contemplate how war makes people do terrible things, nor question just what it is that causes us to commit such heinous acts, as in Lifeboat (1944), Apocalypse Now (1979), or The Thin Red Line (1998). Furthermore, we are sho…
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That's because not every war - or war adjacent - film needs to do that.
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Written by Simon Dillon
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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
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