An unusual antiwar film

The first thing that struck me as I viewed this movie was the similarity in tone (it is filmed in black and white) to fifties/sixties television. The subject matter is another thing. We watch different groups range over the countryside killing each other. That's it. As the movie progresses- if you want to call it a progression- we go from one group to another. The hunter becomes the hunted. No one is safe. Death is like a tidal wave sweeping over the landscape. There is no sense to it, and thus the idiocy of war is flung up in our faces. Romance and family and politics and allegiance mean nothing in this film. The participants in this conflict are sucked into it and annihilated.

This is not a bloody film. The camera doesn't dwell on the murders being committed. It notes them and moves on.