Fury (2014) - Not Learned A Thing Yet!

★★★☆☆

There’s a big contrast in the opening of the film where Brat Pitt’s Don kills a Nazi with much hate but sets his white horse free with much love. To him, it seems like a horse’s life is much more precious than a human’s. Sure this is not his fault. It’s the Government, the propaganda, the madness, the war itself that makes us act like an animal in some particular time. Basically it’s our distinction to blame. And it’s not something we’re endowed with, but we think it is!

A matter of fact that I love every film starring Brat Pitt, but of course not every film he’s in is good, including this one. ‘Fury’ has got some gross and haunting images but the story and the characters are not so convincing and impressive. Why Don, with just a broken tank and a few hands left, still insists to stay and fight against an army of heavily armed Nazis instead of retreating and working out a better plan? Maybe he’s sick of having to live and fight over and over again. I don’t know, but the last scene makes it look like a superhero film rather than a super realistic war sensation like ‘Saving Private Ryan’. Still ‘Fury’ gives us a journey to experience different levels of hell. It shocks and pains at times!

War offers nothing but a lot of excruciating pain, yet we don’t seem to have learned a thing. We still feel like resorting to war is one of the workable resolutions to our problems. We always believe war could end our pain somehow. But look, after a lot of killing and fighting and beating shit out of each other, has our pain gone away already? Has the world become a better a place for us? I guess Don must’ve learned the answer as more than one time he almost throws up and bursts to tears!