Usually, war films are good for atmosphere-they’re good for putting us somewhere we haven’t been and showing us exactly why we’d never want to go there. (For the utmost example of this category, go watch Come and See.) While we certainly need films to go there-to show us, as Kurtz in Apoca lypse Now cries, “the horror”-we can only go there so often. But otherwise, what we get is just carnage. Many great war movies do accomplish this mood- 1917 and Dunkirk are examples of war films just treating themselves as straight suspense. When the operative tension in the film is literal life or death, the only successful mood you can really create is suspense. The reason has something to do with the stakes. War movies, by and large, really aren’t that good. Can we say something controversial? We’re going to say something controversial.
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