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In Warfare, the Fog of War Is Both a Literal and Spiritual Fact
Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Iraq War drama plunges us into the horror and confusion of combat.
Despite the presence of several well-known actors — including Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Charles Melton, and Kit Connor — character development and identification are minimal. The lack of context around what these men are doing in this part of town and why feels purposeful, and it’s reflected symbolically in sequences where the screen fills with fumes and dust from smoke grenades and other explosions while the sound either drops out completely or is muffled down to a hazy thrum of distant gunshots and heavy breathing. But its politics were experiential, not ideological: In depicting the U.S. as the kind of distant, war-torn wasteland so familiar to us from news reports from other countries, the film flipped the camera on our commodification of conflict.
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