One man tries to save a captive who's thrown in the mixed of trying to stay alive. "Casualties of War" is a film based, we are told, on an actual event. A five-man patrol of American soldiers in Vietnam kidnapped a young woman The movie is not so much about the event as about the atmosphere leading up to it - the dehumanizing reality of combat, the way it justifies brute force. Casualties of War was based on a New Yorker article by Daniel Lang.
De Palma's decision (which I take it to be) to withhold from the. Casualties of War movie reviews & Metacritic score: During the Vietnam War, a soldier (Michael J. Fox) finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they.
Casualties of War is De Palma's best work in years -- it's powerful, meticulous filmmaking -- yet it may be a movie easier to admire than love. Read the Empire Movie review of Casualties of War. Fox is a revelation as the mouse that roared, whilst the score, the direction, and the. Not the grand sin of war in general, but the specific destruction of order amongst soldiers far from home who have lost sight of their own humanity. Casualties of War is one of the best war films I've seen. It s emotionally manipulative but it's effective (unlike films like Saving Private Ryan ).
Trailer Casualties of War
Institutionalised violence represents the failure of humanity as whole. Casualties of War brutally illustrates the affect. All but one of them, (Fox), participates and his insistence on bringing the others to justice and his relentless sense.
But apart from this talking-point premise, War, serves up a lot more for the action-movie buffs. It has lots of stunts, thrills, twists and just enough masala and explosions. "All war films tell two stories, the story of a war and the story of the men fighting it," writes James Meek. But these two tales can get confused in the public mind, as Downfall and a new Japanese blockbuster have shown. Director: Brian De Palma (as Brian DePalma).