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Our View: Fix the 'free speech zone' ... Teaching the First Amendment ... Calendar: Saturday, Oct. 25 ... Our View: Fix the 'free speech zone' ... Teaching the First Amendment ... AT THE MOVIES 'Fury' shows the grim toll of war By Chris Honoré for Revels DailyTidings.com By Chris Honoré for Revels Posted Oct. 23, 2014 @ 12:01 am By Chris Honoré for Revels Posted Oct. 23, 2014 @ 12:01 am » Social News Since the end of World War II, Hollywood has often turned to what has been referred to as the “last good war” for scripts wherein the writers carefully constructed a patina of heroism and moral righteousness, always careful to sanitize scenes that might shock or give offense. Those films were as much fantasy as they were the romantic comedies or westerns that were also ubiquitous post-WWII. It wasn’t until Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” (at least the first 40-some minutes) that Hollywood, using state-of-the-art filmmaking, portrayed the unrelenting carnage and brutality that is war, and audiences saw, graphically, what had been so carefully disguised previously. Which brings us to the just-released “Fury , ” written and directed by David Ayer (“Training Day,” “U-571,” and the hugely underrated “End of Watch”). The difference between Ayer’s film and Spielberg’s “Ryan”is that “Fury”sustains the mayhem and savagery of D-Day throughout. It is an unflinching journey into a darkness so complete that it has often rendered those who lived it mute. The film has at its center a Sherman tank and the five soldiers who have managed to survive campaigns from Africa to the beaches of Normandy and now, in the final days of the war, well into Germany. It is evident to the crew, and to all the G.I.s pushing hard across Germany, that the war will soon end. Hitler has lost; however, refusing to surrender, he has issued orders to all of Germany that every man, woman and child must refuse to yield. And so the villages and cities and bucolic pastures became a futile-yet-deadly killing field. And this is the context wherein Sgt. Don Collier (Brad Pitt), also known as "Wardaddy," commands his tank crew ever-forward. There’s Trini “Gordo” Garcia (Michael Pena); Boyd “Christian” Swan (Shia LaBeof); John "Coon-ass" Bernthal (Grady Travis); and a newbie, trained to be a clerk-typist, Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman), who now finds himself the second driver of the tank named Fury. Together this band of quirky brothers confronts the embedded horror of war as the soldiers battle the remaining vestiges of the still-lethal Wehrmacht, all from the claustrophobic interior of a tank that they’ve inhabited for almost three years, pausing just long enough to crudely and aggressively bicker with each other while insisting that what they do is the “best job” they’ve ever had. Wardaddy, understanding what’s at stake, essentially their survival, schools Norman in the art of killing, saying, “Wait til you see what a man can do to another man.” Along with Norman, the audience is shown what we as a species are capable of doing to one another while the men of Fury refuse to acknowledge openly what the doing does to the human soul and their humanity. And so Ayer builds into the narrative Norman’s contrasting point of view, first as an innocent and then as someone who must, if only to survive along with his crew, mirror their savagery. Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” Ayer has made a provocative, deeply textured and affecting film that some might call, like “Ryan , ” anti-war. It is beautifully written and photographed, the dialogue spare, the colors brown and grimly leaden. The performances are all superb. No character escapes the impact of what they were asked to do and the crippling spirit-shattering experience is grimly written on each face.   Fury 135 min Rated R   By Chris Honoré for Revels DailyTidings.com By Chris Honoré for Revels Posted Oct. 23, 2014 @ 12:01 am » Comment or view comments Reader Reaction » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. calendar Connect with DailyTidings.com Facebook Twitter RSS Back to top Reader Services Reader Services home Subscriptions Subscriber controls Contact us Submissions Photos Events Letters to the editor Corrections Alerts Email alerts RSS feeds Text Alerts Advertise Media Kit Home Products and services Ad rates Advertising contacts Mail Tribune Daily Tidings The Nickel Shop Our Valley Blogs Stay Informed Email newsletter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. 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