Update 21 April 2015: This film was released commercially in the United States on 17 April 2015.
This film has not yet been released commercially in the United States.
Anti-war movies so often fail at being effectively
anti-war because any depiction of fighting, violence, brutality, or death
inherently glorifies it by making it sensational. One of the best anti-war
movies I can recall is Danis Tanovic’s Oscar-winning No Man’s Land which featured virtually no fighting at all but was
about two wounded soldiers from opposing sides in the Bosnian War stuck in the
tract of land between the lines. It was about the absurdity and ineffectiveness
of war and the need for human understanding in conflict. No Man’s Land was the movie I thought of most often during Tangerines, one of this year’s nominees
for the award that Tanovic’s film won.
