The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.
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That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.
I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.
People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.
A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.
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