thought provoking

I agree with the post that this was a more thoughtful war flick but I'd add thought provoking as well. SPOILER: a scene where the captain is saying something about the imminence of a future conflagration alluding to it coming from the east. I took that as a warning and a somewhat smug threat. The collapse of the Soviet empire has not sat well with a very large and diverse part of the Russian populace. It wasn't like the end of the 3rd Reich that was pummeled and judged at Nuremberg. Democratic nations of the world refused to call into account the Soviet legacy, few have paid any price for the destructions and a fuming, smoldering resentment toward the non-communist world is dominant in the thoughts and conversations of a powerful and dangerous clique of ex-Soviet patriots.

what ails most madmen is realitys grasp or escape, a paralysis of analysis