A movie about war that does not have war heroes

Rating: 9/10 (2 August 2017)

I watched several war movies in the past years, and I always enjoyed the most the fighting scene, the rapid movement or the story regarding the event, the planning of the mission,action. What I loved in this movie is that it doesn't tell you a story as if you were a far away spectator, it takes you from your sit and puts you straight on that shore and tells you: "This is war, now we are going to experience it together". I felt the stress the private felt while trying to escape in every possible way, I felt the lack of oxygen in the underwater scenes, I felt the heaviness of the silence in the infinite seconds of waiting. Generally war movies, always try to draw a line between good and evil, underling who is the friend and who is the enemy; what I felt during this movie is that, more than trying to create two different groups, from the very beginning what is pictured is the human nature in the war zone: surviving instinct. There are a few scene where it does not matter on which side they were, the only thing that matter was: "Mors tua vita mea", another detail that add truth and authenticity to the story. Another thing that this movie has is, at least for me, being unpredictable. I didn't know, or catch, the destiny of the characters, until the end, until the very last scene I didn't know what was going to happen to every single character of the story.