Director Alex Garland, known for the previous year’s acclaimed Dystopian thriller Civil War, is back with another hard-touching film, Warfare.
While the Civil War drowned the audience in a fictional American struggle, the war takes a different view-a raw and ineffective look at a real-life military campaign in Iraq.
A grit and realistic war experience
Set in Iraq in 2006, the film follows a team of the US Navy seal posted inside an Iraqi family house, using it as an observation post, which is an observation post to track American forces moving forward through the rebellious-controlled region. What starts as a cool operation increases in a desperate battle to quickly survive when they come under an attack with a heavy armed enemy force.
Unlike traditional Hollywood war films, which glorify military heroes, the war focuses on cruel realism. The authenticity of the project has been reinforced by co-author Ray Mendoza, a former seal of the US Navy, which participated in the real-life mission shown in the film. Combined with Garland’s signature intensive story, the film promises to be a rigid and immersive war experience.
A24’s biggest war film is still
Garland, who previously directed former Machina, Annehlation, Drade and Civil War, is known for his entertaining, blind striking films. While the exact budget of the Warfare has not been disclosed, the trailer suggests a massive production-something that is not specific to the A24 in the past. The most expensive film of the studio was Civil War, which had a $ 50 million budget, and the war seems to continue that high-caliber filmmaking.
