Yes. You have to go see Gone Girl before it gets spoiled for you. Great, great film.i4njw said:"David Ayer, whose films frequently depict savage, angry, unapologetically-brutal characters but also ask: "Does that mean they weren't also people? That their stories don't get told?""
I think he's a good pick for the Suicide Squad film based on that alone.
Definitely going to check this one out. Still have to see Gone Girl, though.
Well if we're going to do the "what is war good for" question then I go with Clauswitz and say that war and its objectives are an extension of politics. Its been a very long time since a noble mounted war horse and marched men to fight for him because thats what he is expected to do by his father. Its goal isn't to make men dead but to end war so that one side can have its policy forced upon another. Britain in WWI went to war to protect its flagging hegemony of the sea lanes and investment banking against a Germany that was insisting on being the continental leader of europe and would therefore upset Britain's politics. I also agree though that war isn't a machine to turn men into psychopaths since a psychopath isn't a simple killer of men. A psychopath is a level of selfishness where nothing of compassion or guilt even exists. A soldier still has compassion or guilt for his comrades and modern war doesn't train you to let all your buddies die as long as you get to live.Gorrath said:Good review, gave me a lot of information without really spoiling anything (as if there was anything to really spoil.)
That said: "War is designed to turn people into psychopaths."
War is designed to turn people into bodies. The stress of it can have harmful effects on people's lives. War is not "designed" to turn people into psychopaths. Next to no one who comes back from a war is turned into one. Seriously, that line sounds deep and all, but it's pretty much total BS. No one I ever served with was turned into a "psychopath." I say this as someone who served in three of the damned things.
Quick Edit: And yea, I know it was just supposed to be kind of a throw away line. War is horrible, blah, blah, blah. It's still a load of horseshit.