6/10
When war can be embellished
22 April 2024
(2017) The Yellow Birds WAR/ DRAMA

Adapted from the novel by Kevin Powers, that has Pvt Daniel Murphy (Tye Sheridan) in bar noticing a young lady dancing at a bar noticing him, and his army peer attempting to motivate him to go up to her and ask her until explosions are heard and an alarm begins to sound. And both and Murphy then go for cover, arm themselves to run back out and participate in firing back. After that has come and gone, Murphy is then making fast friends with Pvt, Bartle (Alden Ehrenreich) as the Sgt Garret Sterling (Jack Huston) of the unit paired them up with one another. As viewers assume Murphy is the star of the movie, since we are then introduced to his mom, Maureen Murphy (Jennifer Anistan) and so forth the movie then observes her son's slow mental deterioration. At which point some time halfway during the movie, Bartle comes back home from duty with no mention of Daniel Murphy also coming home at all. And when Bartle comes home and sees his mom, Amy Bartle (Toni Collette), he devoid any type of celebration as it was obvious he wanted to be left alone- including seeing and meeting his love interest. Some time during the following week CID Captain Anderson (Jason Patric) then stops by at the mom's place to meet her son and at that point viewers suspect something odd has happened as he came back but his best friend, Daniel Murphy had not. For the movie uses flashbacks from what happened between back then and the present time while Bartle is trying to overcome his guilt, we can only only suspect without any judgement.

I did not like, love this movie but I get the message that war in general is just as ambigouous as the wild west The ending of the movie provided a lot of thought in regarding what is the truth and what isn't!
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