Raw and crude but so real

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2020)

Great to have the chance to revisit this movie ðŸŽ¥ 16 years after its release and my last viewing. It is undoubtedly a very thrilling show, everything from start to finish, plot to actors, sound to music ðŸŽ¶ , scene to costume. Its greatness is magnified by great acting skills of great Hollywood heavyweights like Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Broom.
While being highly bloody and crude, this movie is deeply fascinating in that it depicts a very genuine picture of human nature. As we all know everything in this world is complicated, so is the soul of this movie. Politics and history, war and peace, love and hate, women and sex, greed and generosity, enmity and respect cannot be more paradoxically reflected in the story, so much so that I find it a bit hard to accept although able to comprehend, and so much so that it makes you feel a bit psychologically hard to breathe, like jumping into freezing waters in the middle of the Atlantic. Yet again my cynicism has somehow captured me in that I pity human nature just as Briseis the princess in the movie pities soldiers.
I find it very real and almost a bit surreal that we all exist to serve the function of a larger mechanism, sometimes at our free will or otherwise with little or no choices.
What a well spent evening with such a wonderful movie . I find myself increasingly engrossed into movie ðŸŽ¥ plots. Even right now the scene in the movie ðŸŽ¥ are still playing in my mind. I did not expect myself to be such a philosophical and perhaps a bit literary person.