Title: Dark, depressing, and deserving of an NC17-rating
Product review: I rented this movie based on its Oscar recognition, and because I love epic historic stories. My husband and I sat through it hoping that the near-constant scenes of tragedy, brutality and lewdness would be somehow softened by a satisfactory ending... but the last five minutes of the movie dashed those hopes and made the previous 2 1/2 hours a total waste of time.There were moments of humor and tenderness. But the main focus of the movie is not what happens to the characters. The main focus is to drive home to the viewers the tragedy, futility and brutality of war. And the movie's creators drive it home... over... and over.. and over... and over and over again. There is an excellently portrayed battle scene at the beginning which makes that point very well, and they could have then focused on actually telling a fulfilling story, but they didn't.And considering the extremely explicit sex scenes, I can't fathom why this movie wasn't rated NC-17.
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