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The entire movie operates on dream logic to give a greatest-hits version of war stories, and I’d say not noticing the nearby trucks is more plausible than what happens right after, where the trucks don’t notice the sniper fire.
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pospysyl posted:Are you saying the movie is derivative? A bit, but not to the point that I disliked it. I think it’s important to consider the film is a tribute to Mendes’ grandfather, and the stories he told him, despite Mendes not being a veteran himself. Operating on dream logic to get to the good parts of every war story fits that MO, though I can’t overlook the fact that it is massively cheating. The movie even ends with a dude falling asleep on a tree and begins with him waking up on one. Like, if we’re gonna criticize the film for logistical errors, then there’s fifty different places where the logistics of each scene’s connections don’t make sense. The woman in the basement is entirely solipsistic despite a big firefight happening outside, the men in the ruins don’t shoot at him down the river despite it being about a hundred feet long, etcetera. It’s not a war film so much as a two hour nightmarescape that vaguely resembles one.
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