How can anyone fail to see the message in this movie?

Rating: 8/10 (20 February 2006)

It is indeed interesting to read the comment on this movie as having no anti war message. To me it was perfectly clear that the movie is about what happens to young men when they are shoved into an environment of aggression towards an unknown enemy and submission to leadership.The scenes where the boys turn into a group that resembles an evil, uncontrolled organism in itself, for instance the Christmas party scene, were obvious to me as pictures of criticism. But the movie is so wonderfully made, and rather subtle, and so it may be rather difficult for the untrained eye to detect the message.
Actually, that Christmas scene made me feel sick to my stomach. It really put the lowest nature of mankind on display - or should I say manhood?