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Directors/writers Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza create one of the most fermented, realistic films about experiences suffered in Iraq in 2006; Ray Mendoza a Navy Seal depicts, in real time, the hideous and brutally gory re-enactment of an ambush that indelibly, both physically and psychologically, maimed these stalwart soldiers. Of the myriads of war movies, this film rips and shreds the viewers’ sensitivity, vivisects the boundaries between an actor’s acuity and a wounded, shattered, screaming victim; impossible to watch and not suffer overwhelming trauma; gored legs, intestines staining the floors of homes, where families are sheltered, cloaked with fear and loathing of their captors. The soundtrack brutalizes one’s spirit; brilliantly raw, inflames, limbs screaming for its severed parts. The torment of watching renders the audience immobilized, trying to hide from the carnage, but defeated by the unlimited agony of weapons of mass destruction, restitution inconceivable.
The believably, viability of “Warfare” pulverizes one’s emotions, leaving gaping, unanswered solutions just “ours is not to reason why, ours but to do or die.”
FOUR STARS!!!!!
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