There are your standard military films and then there are "War", existing worlds and in the league all their. Alex Garland's latest directorial effort will inevitably feel reminiscent of his previous action/thriller for a heart attack a year ago, "Civil War", though with a few key differences. For one, viewers will quickly realize that there is no real "narrative" here in a traditional sense, rather than completely stripped of any exciting speeches or acts of glory or exaggerated clichés. For another, this trembling of boots is much more limited to the volume, focusing on a 2006 mission in Iraq passed a terribly wrong and greatly told in real time. But more than anything else, "warfare" is a refreshing true story with little or no exaggeration, told by the specific views of those who have actually been there-an extremely co-director and veteran of the Iraq war, Ray Mendoza.

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And that verification, as it turns out, is the key to what makes "warfare" such an effective and frightening watch. Although a cast filled with recognizable names and faces, from the Starwear "Daredeville: Born", Michael Gandolfini to the recent artist Charles Melton, to the latest "Fantastic Four" of Marvel, A Supplement, " attempts to survive in the face of terrible violence. But when the audience begins to get into the cinema to capture all the activities on the big screen, many may be moving away from asking just how much of it is based on real events.

True to forming, the creative team claims that every "warfare" frame is cruel, unfiltered and painfully realistic.

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For an experimental film as bold and ambitious as "warfare", its origin may surprise you. The creative partnership between Garland and Mendoza actually returns to the development of Similar to the explosive "Garland Civil War", "" A fictional image of the United States in the near future that falls apart under the chaos of the military uprising against too much president. As so, Mendoza's role as a key military adviser had a direct impact on the next project that the two would decide to follow.

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In A recent interview with /film Jaceacob HallMendoza and Garland explained how the origin of production from a tense sequence staged at the end of the "Civil War" originated. Mendoza helped the craft of the logistics of the White House's climate siege, to scatter in real time and to cut forward in order to skip over any of the miniatures without abruptly. This has led to a discussion of taking over the same mentality and applying the entire film. According to Garland, "so, in (post-production of" Civil War ") I called Ray and said:" Are you interested in making a film that will last an hour and a half or an hour 40 (minutes), during that, and we would try to be completely faithful to a true string of events and we would not twist them? For a variety of reasons, to a great extent, though personal reasons. "

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After talking to others involved veterans and was allowed to tell his story, Mendoza settled on a particular mission of the Navy during the Battle of Ramadi in Iraq in Iraq in Iraq ... but that was just the beginning of the process.

How far away "warfare" bends the rules of conventional storytelling? Well, consider the fact that Garland and Mendoza pointed out that the whole film is based on nothing but memory. Taking their signs of hours and hours of personal interviews, the directors talked to many of the real soldiers involved in this series of events. Remembering the details of surgery for nearly 20 years in the past, where they set up a sniper site in a residential building in order to watch out for rebels in the nearby area, it is already looking for a lot. The conversion of those memories and memories into a feature film was something else.

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But as tempting as certain facts could be or to diverge from real events in order to make things a little more dramatic, the directors instead set some key rules on how to approach this film. Garland apparently took a direct inspiration from The so -called Dogme '95 movement A pioneer by authors like Lars von Trier, who emphasized the idea of ​​naturalist film production brought to extreme. As Garland explained in his conversation with /film:

"So, this was a kind of movie of Dogme in some sense, except for Dogme's rule, no one was allowed to invent something and everything that makes its way in the film must be, you can sources from first -hand. From people there they said," You didn't go to the window, you sat there, "that's the end of the conversation.

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As a result, widely speaking, everything in "warfare" is based on a true story - whether it is taken from foggy memories, official military reports of strategy and training, or simply continuing what every soldier felt at every given moment. The result is a rare experience truly unique than anyone else.

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"War" now plays in cinemas.