A platoon of American Navy SEALs on a surveillance mission gone wrong in insurgent territory. A boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare and brotherhood, told in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it.
战·争, Tiempo de guerra, Под огнём, Warfare: Tiempo de guerra, حرب, 워페어, Warfare. Tiempo de guerra, 戰役, יחידת העילית, Бойові дії, Tempo de Guerra, Wojna, Война, جنگاوری, Warfare - Tempo di guerra, ომის საფასური, Ký Ức Chiến Tranh, Karas, Ratovanje, Război, Ратовање, Hadviselés
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Why did Alex Garland make this film? And why did A24 choose to distribute it?
I felt it was necessary for me to attend an advance screening of this film in order to get ahead of the discourse. I thought that Alex Garland's Civil War was actually an incredibly visceral portrayal of war that benefited—not suffered—from its ahistorical setting. But like everyone else, I was very apprehensive about this film when its trailer first dropped. Still, I gave Garland the benefit of the doubt, trusting that this would not be just another dead-end film about how brave the US military is. I hate to say it, but this film is exactly what it seems.
It functions solely as a recreation…
sound design is a powerful drug
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
You see one person get shot in this film. They’re shot in ing over an unneeded sledgehammer. There’s no better summation of the pointlessness of the conflict in Iraq, which Warfare perfectly captures.
This is anti war. This is a horror movie. Keep seeing people say “this is a call of duty mission”. Which call of duty was that? I’d be curious to see how many copies this one sold. Never noticed people lining up to play the “lay around in piss and blood with no mission to speak of” simulator. There’s no dramatic score blaring behind American GI’s wasting mindless enemies. No mission, no rah rah rhetoric, no tangible goal. You don’t even know what the team is shooting at…
putting the internet’s favorite white twinks through war is exactly what cinema is all about if you ask me
a soulless, insidious piece of pseudo-realistic propaganda. a film that postures as an anti-war statement while revelling in the exact kind of mindless, fetishized destruction that makes war look like an adrenaline-fueled power fantasy rather than the devastating atrocity that it actually is. it's laughable that this claims to be a brutally honest portrayal of the horrors of war, yet it is so utterly obsessed with aestheticizing that horror that it ultimately becomes complicit in the very glorification it pretends to reject. don't even get me started on how tone-deaf this is by focusing exclusively on the soldiers' experience and completely ignoring the wider consequences of war(the civilian impact, the political motivations, the psychological toll beyond the battlefield), it reduces…
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Blood and smoke.
There's no characterization here. Not a single flashback to American families at home. No talk of barbecues or ballgames. One of the soldiers tries to spark up a conversation during the mission and it's chalked up as embarrassing 'new guy' behavior. All that's provided for the viewer to decipher is jargon, gear, weaponry, ash, gore, screams, bullet casings. Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland's Warfare is a film of ceaseless minutiae, with the Hollywood wartime form deglossed and stripped of all convention. Even the usual postscript is set to the droning nightmarish tones of Low's 'Dancing and Blood', and more than half of the photographs are blurred, including a framed portrait of the Iraqi family whose home…
starting to think war isn't a good thing
I think there are both extremely fair and bad faith critiques being thrown at this, and as limited as the scope is it’s clearly become the conversation starter that Mendoza & Garland were hoping it would be. Ray Mendoza could only make the movie he was able to make - a real time recreation of the events of this day, or rather of the memories of the events, making for an arguably more profound cinematic approach that lets us in on the sensory and emotional experience of combat. Spoiler alert, it’s not fun! If nothing else this serves as a fascinating exercise in artistic intent and whether neutrality is possible or even attempted here - there are still creative and political…
traumatizing every white boy of the month
loudest movie ive ever seen my ears feel like i just stepped on an IED
Francois Truffaut said, "There's no such thing as an anti-war film." Francis Ford Coppola supposedly agreed with him, but Steven Spielberg said, "Of course every war movie, good or bad, is an anti-war movie."
I don't think Alex Garland cares either way. He set out to tell a story true to the memories of the men who were there that day. Not true to the events, but true to their memories. Ray Mendoza wanted to honor his friend.
Here is what I know. The movie is visceral, hard to watch, and technically spectacular. I also know that a bunch of folks, who haven't seen the movie, tweeting their outrage at this new installation of propaganda are hypocrites. If you supposedly…
