It's not just a war movie, it's much more. It's a declaration of the human's rights.

Rating: 10/10 (8 January 2005)

The subject of this motion picture is very well known, very old: nature & culture, beast & mankind, peace & war, life & death, loving & hating, winning & losing: and yet this movie is very original, truly extraordinary. Its aesthetic is so gentle, its poetic is so delicate, its message so subtle and simple, that it makes very easy to understand it - and yet this movie is not an easy one, not at all. It's not just a war movie, it's much more. It's a declaration of the human's rights. So many movies I've seen, so many books I've read, but I will never forget that day I watched it for the first time: that day I understood how far can go the stupidity of mankind. Today I've watched it for the umpteenth time, and I'm so angry right now... I would like every f u c k i n g politician of this planet to watch it every morning, of every week, of every month, of every year of their meaningless careers... before going to work. And I would like to watch straight into their eyes those politicians that have signed down a war law, and I'd like to understand. At some point, in the movie, Nick Nolte says to the captain: "Nature is very cruel...". How ironic of that ! What about men then! One of the best artistic peaces of modern era to me.