Effective

Rating: Null/10 (1 September 2000)

The movie is great, with a devastating, quiet and simple ending. What makes it so effective is the lack of background music. I also liked the fact that the it doesn't try to make you puke. War is obviously more horrible than this. At times the movie looks less like an indictment of war, and more like an indictment of life itself. It seems to mourn not so much the evils of war, as the evils of sickness and death. Let us not forget that civilians die horrible deaths in peace time. The movie seems to realize this. Hence the prevalence of melancholy over anger and indignation.