A brief movie review of Fury, which I just got around to seeing this weekend.
This was one of the harder movies to watch that I've seen, which means that it is a good war movie. There are several war crimes executed by good men, which is an accurate depiction of the nature of war. They do right sometimes, wrong often, and they're the good guys. They die well. It is honest about the brutality and the hardness of it all, and the ways in which they can come to love it.
The hardest scene to watch, though, is of an impromptu dinner party with some German locals. Half the tank crew wants to have a moment of normality and decency; the other half is so harmed and haunted by what they've done that they can't stand it, and try to destroy it. They're sorry, but they can't, and it's because they're too hurt to pretend things can still be normal.
It isn't an art film. It's not a masterpiece. But it's honest and it's direct, and that's not nothing.
That's interesting how they interpolate the volunteer for war vanguard mentality with a bible verse. Since it was their decision to incarnate on Earth to experience the joys and despair of life. They chose to be here, even as actors, in order to test how tough they are, in some ways.
ReplyDeleteThose that harmonize with these issues are remembering a pre sentiment, that or they have previous life experience in wars.
Pre mortal memories are blocked and recovered in the same fashion as amnesia. Emotional triggers, smell triggers, etc. But unlike with just normal amnesia, mortal amnesia never recovers on its own. Only the heart and emotions can feel it, but the mind is forever blocked at the conscious level. Not the unconscious or subconscious level.
Japan had a pretty nifty way to visually signal when a character is remembering something. One of their eyes, only one, will tear up and one drop will fall, then the character wipes it away surprised as if they didn't know why it happened.
ReplyDeleteJapan has been channeling divine truth for a long time now.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/treaty_loveday_1458.html
ReplyDeleteLove Day made things worse, forcing people who had suffered in war to pretend they hadn't.
That's an interesting historical parallel. I don't know as much as I should about the Wars of the Roses. That's when Sir Thomas Malory lived, and he spent so much time in prison because he got caught up in the politics of it. Lucky for me; otherwise, he wouldn't have written his book, which has meant so much to my life.
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