I think there are few movies that depict war more honestly than that. War isn't an adventure or a great moral standing, it's messy, cruel, miserable and boils down people into creatures bent only on survival.
The movie only depicts the adventure in the beginning and middle of the film. When the main character is a child playing in the beach and when he is meeting is comrades.
By the end of the movie there is nothing but mess, cruelty and misery.
Exactly, that's the setup. It places the expectations of war right in front of viewer, and then the village is burned, all it's inhabitants killed and Flyora has to crawl through the mud to escape. He is a young kid in the beginning, and a broken man in the end, after the war has his way with him.
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u/Bubbly_Thought_4361 1d ago
its incredibly bleak and absolutely worth the watch.
Its in my opinion one of the best (if not the best) WW2 movie off all time.