"It’s like why it’s hard to make an anti-war film: in dramatizing violence so heavily, you ultimately make the violence you want to oppose slick and gorgeous. "
Yes, I remember thinking this when watching "Hacksaw Ridge" (celebrating a conscientious objector medic in WWII) and Dunkirk (glorifying a civilian boat rescue). Hacksaw Ridge seemed to relish in the violence more while Dunkirk (which ends with Churchill's "We will fight them" speech) seemed *felt* more anti-war, or at least relished in the violence less.
"It’s like why it’s hard to make an anti-war film: in dramatizing violence so heavily, you ultimately make the violence you want to oppose slick and gorgeous. "
Yes, I remember thinking this when watching "Hacksaw Ridge" (celebrating a conscientious objector medic in WWII) and Dunkirk (glorifying a civilian boat rescue). Hacksaw Ridge seemed to relish in the violence more while Dunkirk (which ends with Churchill's "We will fight them" speech) seemed *felt* more anti-war, or at least relished in the violence less.