‘Every Round Has A Purpose,’ Says Co-Director

When cinema critics hold on war films that claim to offer realistic treatment of the fight, they most likely speak of their hat. Most of my colleagues, including me, have never been used in the army and, therefore, have no clue of what it feels to have shining bullets near your head while the prescription explodes nearby. Heck, many people who serve in the army do not have this experience.

So when it comes to determining what is realistic and what is Hollywood, all you can do is consult someone who has been there. I did it throughout my criticism of criticism, and the titles that I hear most often as being the most realistic are probably “the battle of Algiers”, “Come and see”, “Saving Private Ryan”, “Das Boot”, “Hamburger Hill” and “Black Hawk Down”. And while François Truffaut said once there is no anti-war film, there is not a moment in these films which makes me impatient to slide a rifle on my shoulder and to make myself rotate. The excitation of the fight is underestimated by terror in each turn.

A recent film which won the praise of the veterans for its representation of Warfare is the “civil war” of Alex Garland. The film presents a shot torn by the United States by a violent uprising against a president of the third mandate and does not fear the ruthless savagery of armed conflicts. It is already horrible to see the American troops spread against each other, but Garland erases our nerves by staging each fight against fires with a visual and sound ferocity which sometimes feels tireless. As we grab our armrest of the theater seat and our tension ball, we wonder how anyone keeps his mind about them when he is confronted with the real thing.

The realism of Garland’s film was made possible thanks to the involvement of the former Navy Seal Ray Mendoza, and the filmmaker was sufficiently impressed by the ideas of his consultant on the fight he wrote and directed a new film with him entitled “Warfare”. If you thought that “civil war” was a difficult race, it seems that “war” will leave you completely shaken. According to Mendoza, one of the key components of the film is its sound design.

/ Bill Bria de Film recently attended a projection of “Warfare”, a film based on memory, followed by a question and answer session during which Mendoza discussed the intention and technical challenges of the film when it came to capturing the common power of combat. Mendoza, who served in the war in Iraq, told the gathered journalists: “If you were in a shooting, you understand that it is the confusion – at the start, it is confused at the beginning. So you have to ask yourself, well, how can I transmit the confusion in a fight of fire? Really Transmit it. “”

For Mendoza, the sound of a shooting is unforgettable and surprisingly unique. How did he reproduce this for viewers who have never been scrambled in such a situation? According to Mendoza:

“”[T]The next step in an exchange of fire is like, okay, where does the fire come from? Then approach this. What is it like once you have identified what’s going on fire? So, each aspect of this film is – even if you had to see this film again – each cliché, each turn has a goal. I didn’t just threw it in there. [Not] Like, “Oh, this F *** ING seems cool.” So when there is a cliché, it’s very directional. So when you see someone moving or moving their weapon, it’s motivated by something, and you can recognize it, but if someone has been in battle, you can say like: “Oh, yes.” You don’t know why it’s true, but it is. “”

If it is as disorienting as the opening of “Saving Private Ryan” or roughly the entire “Black Hawk Down”, I suppose that we should prepare for a white cake in a war film. The press that was invited to the projection seems to support this.

What to expect from “warfare?” BRIA DE PER / FILMHe “mixes some of the expected war film elements – tension, brutality, blood – with some daring, namely the representation of the pure mundanity of the war (until, of course, changes).” He continues by saying that “Garland & Mendoza captures a convincing war memory here.”

Erik Davis of Fandango Remoked that the film by Garland and Mendoza is “definitely the most intense film I watched this year”. He added that “the casting is stacked with familiar names like Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor, Charles Melton, Noah Centineo, Will Poulter and Cosmo Jarvis, but the rhythm is so frantic and the energy so chaotic that men really argue in their roles.”

Journalist Simon Thompson also praised, saying that “war” is “one of the first to see the films of the year. An incredible tribute to the unimaginable sacrifice of this brave group of brothers.

Mendoza, who previously was a technical advisor on films like “Jurassic World”, “Lone survivor” and “Act of Valor”, made his director’s debut here, but he does it alongside a formidable talent in Garland. It seems that “Warfare” could be a special film. We will discover when he was in theaters on April 11, 2025.