Trumbo has no pretensions to optimism or happy endings or anything of the kind this healthy young man is turned into a pathetic, hideous hunk of flesh by a three second explosion that simply happened to occur, with no logic or reason to it. We watch a naive, well to do young man go to a war he doesn't understand in the slightest, and we also watch while he is brutally destroyed by a bomb. Anyone with an ounce of sensitivity will be knocked off their feet by this film. When I was about 12 or 13 I first saw the Metallica video "One", and I couldn't stop obsessing about it for days because it upset me so much. This is the cinematic equivalent of a punch in the face or a kick in the stomach. Beyond a doubt, the reason it is so obscure has nothing to do with its quality or relevance, but with the fact that it is too penetrating for the majority to handle. This is the most disturbing movie I've ever seen.
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