Ignite Change In Your Heart!
A Review By Ben Hunter
5 Out Of 5 Stars
GET TO THE POINT
BEN!
Let the reality of war
help you to ignite change in your heart!
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Brutality and carnage, bloodshed and butchery, the
dehumanizing of one’s character, man’s inhumanity towards other men such as
with women, spiritual redemption in the face of certain calamity, … death in
all its gore, … the call … of duty. Writer/director
David Ayer (writer of Training Day,
director of End of Watch) shares his
realistic depiction with today’s innovations of the reality of war in Fury.
Don “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt) commands a tank crew in
Europe during WWII, a tank they all named “Fury”. A crew of blunt, manly in the traditional
sense, rough around the edges type of characters, brilliantly meshed together
by the acting talents of Shia LaBeouf, Michael Peña, and Jon Bernthal. After a crewmember’s passing in battle, his
replacement is typist Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman) who hasn’t the slightest
idea of what really goes on in war. Norman is just a kid caught in the middle
of a bigger situation he knows nothing about.
He’s terrified at the sight of death.
I literally saw the remains of the skin of a soldier’s face on the
ground with the body nowhere in sight.
So a scared, helpless kid is thrown in the midst of all of this. It’s during the course of their time together
that Norman, as well as the rest of us experiencing this with him, comes to
grasp with the happenings of war while unexpectedly breaking away from the
conditions of normal society.
By gosh was this film so real! The realistic depictions of what this time
must have been like to the best of our knowledge gave me such an incredible
discernment of hostility. The actuality
and authenticity of how Norman was slowly mind melded into the psyche of
war. Witnessing death in front of his
very eyes, just inches away, loosing someone loved, pleading for the end of it
all even if it means loosing his own life, this film was so real! The chemistry between the character
portrayals confirmedly contributed to this feeling I received about Norman’s
transition. This is another great
example of a film really taking me there but not going too far with its
savagery. I didn’t want it to end
because it was too much; I wanted it to continue because it was just enough. A great sign of a great film!
I loved how the different themes of war were acutely
addressed, in particular spirituality before death. There’s a scene where the delivery of the
lines from Shia LaBeouf’s character, Boyd “Bible” Swan, prays with a dying
soldier on the battlefield, simply overtook me with sentimental emotion. If there is something that ever so lightly
yet triumphantly moves me, it would be this.
The concept or the actual reality of death is something that gets one
thinking about his or her spirituality and connection to life in a deeper manner
than just the tangible everyday manners we construct ourselves within, to help
grow our character and the world we affect for the better. Fury
is a film that does just that in my book.
It had me thinking of how I affect the world around me for the
better. To realize that the kindness and
goodness of my heart is all it takes for change to ignite.
Fury
War, 134 Minutes, R
Written & Directed by: David Ayer
Cast: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal
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