Fury

Fury is a retelling of the story of the Alamo. Saving Private Ryan has met its match by this WWII film. The story of this WWII film was wonderfully imagined. To bad Ayer was not nominated for an Oscar for his cinematic efforts. So much about this movie deserves written attention. Difficult it is to pear down the many thoughts and emotions this movie elicits. As of this movie as of other period movies I am always amazed at how an art director, I think it is the art director who, finds equipment, automobiles, clothes, and other things used in scenes that convey real authenticity of a particular period. Too often reviews are written focusing on what appears on screen without mention of production that goes on behind the camera. That production-work makes what appears on screen work well. Production value of this film is deserving of high praise. Yet writing about this movie is hard to do without mention of what occurs in front of the camera. Of course Brad Pitt does another excellent job at acting. He was/is that top Sargent. One dimensional his character is not. Layers of the character were dramatized well when each one individually needed to surface. As well, those layers work in combination towards shaping the character of the conveyed character. One particular scene stands out.Inside the German woman's apartment. Having had cleaned himself of war grime, looking fresh, top Sargent and Noman sit at a dinning room table, waiting to be served food, very domesticated. Calmly reading a newspaper, top Sargent sits at the head of the table presiding over an unlikely formation of an instantly formed family only made possible by conditions of war. All of a sudden in comes a barbaric presence tarnishing any semblance of domestic tranquility. Other crew members drunkenly loud enter the apartment. Top Sargent quietly accepts his rowdy crew members who behave inappropriately. Norman tortuously contains his resentment at their rowdy and crude presence. Top Sargent wisely allows these crew members to misbehave but keeps a vigilant eye on them. After all these are his men with whom he has fought many battles, and together they have witnessed devastating horror characteristic of war. Having shared such horrific conditions has allowed strong bonds to be formed among them. In this scene Pitt's character conveys silent authority, both domestic and militarily. Yet when he has to he can switch on barbaric authority, which authority his men understand, for it matches their own barbaric presence. Top Sargent demonstrates he is the alpha male of the bunch. Another screen presence deserving mention is the actor who plays the character, Norman. To illustrate his acting ability, take the scene when tank and crew roll out of camp heading towards another military objective. Norman had just moments before arrived in camp. Having been trained to be a military clerk, he now sits inside a tank for his first time saddled with responsibility as assistant driver. Not long before this moment his muses the military had made a mistake. His newly found comrades assure him no mistake has been made. Its just throwing cannon fodder at the enemy, and it's the roll of the dice whether the newbie survives or not. It's part of military logic in such circumstances. Here it is Norman's first experience of battle with a battle harden tank crew, and he is hardly prepared to go into battle let alone going into battle as a tank crew member. As the tank rolls out of camp, Norman sits in the lower portion of the tank, his head sticking out, from a distance looking quite comical, I think. Camera at mid-range close-up focuses on this face. His is a face given to the expression of foreboding terror, portrayed convincingly well. Another time the actor playing the character Norman does well at acting. The time after the tank crew had undergone shelling in the town. It was in this town he had met the German young woman, and with whom he might have had sex. As to whether that happened is not quite clear to me. As to whether sex did happen or not happen makes no difference. A scene of them together in the apartment sitting at the table does show a bound had formed between them, a bond formed but still very innocent. After the shelling on the town, now on the road again, leaving the town, his thoughts are unspoken but obviously of her. By his meeting her and by his being with her it gave him a sense of quiet, pleasant normalcy, a respite from the deafening loudness and insanity of war. But now he sits on top of the moving tank, lost in quiet contemplation. Moments before he witnessed a brief but lethal incident of devastatingly eruptive force. Now Norma's face conveys a deeply felt sadness, a sadness having him at the border of numbness, a numbness felt with the thought of the irreparable damage he witnessed. This emotion is convincingly portrayed by the actor. The two scenes about which I have written are very important moments, scenes, at which time qualities of character are conveyed. This has me wondering how a casting director, producer, and director -- whoever -- would audition actors for a part such as this requiring silent conveyance of emotion. An accurately made observation of all the primary actors in this movie would state each did an excellent job. Each portrays a character, a common men, who when placed in abnormally dangerous circumstances, who when faced by overwhelming forces greatly and lethally at odds by his presence, who then steps up to the occasion to face the challenge, and who must introspectively reach within himself to derive uncommon strength of character towards achievement of something astoundingly remarkable although it may mean his losing his life. This not a movie about heroics. It's about duty and integrity. It's belief in fulfilling the purpose of something greater than oneself. It's about the futility of protracted war when fighting on is absurdly irrational and is evidence of maddening stupidity. Enough said. Besides who really will read this review?

I really really enjoyed this film, I actually watched it twice through in two days and enjoyed it just as much as the first time. What I like so much about this movie is that it does not glamorize war, nor does it paint the characters as overt heroes. What it does do as present war as what it really is, horrific. Without in the same time not going over the top. Its motif and approach is very subtle. I have read several reviews where this movie has been labeled similar to a Horror genre War story. And I am inclined to agree. This movie is absolutely intense from start to finish, and the acting by all the actors is top notch. Especially the 5 main characters, where all the actors in my opinion should get an Oscar nod for because they all did a wonderful job. As a synopsis of the story without giving away too much, we are given a small snap shot of 4 tankers we find at the tail end of the war pushing through Germany. There assistant driver and front gunner has just been killed and the replacement they get is a fresh recruit 8 weeks into the army that wasn't even trained as a tanker. We then follow the characters through a number of battles, where the focus of the story is very much on the Newbie, Norman. Near the end of the film after we have watched Norman be presented with the unnaturalness of the horrors of war, and be dubbed "Machine" as his war name. I very much feel that this an allusion to that man, by his nature, must force himself to not feel, to turn off his emotions and be a cold machine to kill and commit the atrocities which war requires of them. I feel this is summed up in one line said by Pitt’s characters to Norman. After pointing out an entire city on fire in the distance. He says "Many have died in this war and many more will have to die before it is over." The movie is very much a study of men doing what they can to hold on to their humanity by having to do something which by its extremity, killing scores of other men, who are trying to do the same in a matter of moments over and over again. The battle scenes are intense, and the ending battle fits the title of the movie so well, as we see through these men’s actions the absolute "fury" which they must embrace to force themselves to face their fears and continue to fight. As the Webster’s dictionary definition states of the meaning of the word fury, "unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like." Overall, there is so much that could be said, and read into about this film, and I honestly feel that that was the point. This movie in my opinion is showing us for once a non cynical side of humanity, that rather than showing us that all men are monsters by nature, that we are violent, uncaring killing machines, which we certainly can be, but points out that by our natures, we have to force ourselves in many ways to be that way. That really brotherhood of man can and does happen, but points out that for us to kill one another, so brutally, forces us to have to in a way forsake our humanity, and then in some way still be able to keep it. I think this notion of war is certainly what humanity needs to keep in mind as we move into the future. That even though what these men did in the end of the film was "heroic" per say, what was still done was also horrific, as we watch Norman pulling away from the scene in the end of the film, he is told he is a hero as he is placed in a medic truck. And we can see on his face such a shock of mixed emotions... It really leaves the viewer speechless, at the depth of what can be taken from his situation and what he has done... This is certainly a movie I will watch again, and ponder over for years to come I am sure. If you are a person that is a thinker and can watch a movie for more than just screaming" MERica!!" then you will really like this film!

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Après l'excellent End of Watch, David Ayer s'attaque à la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Fury retrace le périple des membres de l'équipe "Fury", cinq hommes différents qui se rassemblent autour de l'horreur de la guerre à l'intérieur d'un char. Le film est un film de guerre, d'action et un drame. Pourquoi ce film est génial ? Parce qu'on a jamais vu ce genre d'histoires porté sur grand écran. Voir la vie quotidienne de ces hommes c'est surprenant et tout simplement prenant. Le concept est original, et j'adhère complètement. D'ailleurs, on assistera à des scènes spectaculaires, certains seront outrés de voir un char détruire un Tigre, mais je me dois de rappeler qu'un film est une fiction !!!! Sans aucune scène d'action, on s’ennuierait déjà d'une, et de deux, le char fait partie intégrante de l'équipe et c'est important de le voir "s'exprimer" et de voir ce qu'il a de le ventre (on voit ses composantes humaines et techniques); confrontation avec d'autres tanks. Deuxièmement, la force de Fury réside également dans son approche narrative. Norman (Logan Lerman) jeune et terrifié par la guerre se retrouve dans ce char. On s’identifiera tout de suite à ce personnage et on comprendra grâce de nombreuses péripéties son évolution. Le film dénonce la guerre, son horreur et ses sacrifices. Ce n'est pas un film juste bourrin comme certains le laisse penser. A mon avis, David Ayer a utilisé plusieurs ingrédients qui fonctionnent très bien ensemble. Drame et Action se complètent parfaitement. J'ajoute d'ailleurs que les autres personnages principaux sont bien écrits, on n'échappera pas à des personnages types, du genre le religieux ou la grosse brute, néanmoins l'écriture se veut plus fine et on comprend tout à fait leurs façons de penser. Soit dit en passant, le film dénonce la barbarie nazie mais aussi celle des alliés... Enfin, techniquement parlant, Fury est incroyable. Filmer dans un environnement aussi complexe qu'un char doit être très difficile et David Ayer relève le défi haut la main. Le montage est cohérent et l'action est parfaitement lisible. De plus, il y a de nombreux effets de style comme les balles traçantes qui sont un régal à l'oeil. Du côté du casting, Brad Pitt tient le rôle principal épaulé par un excellent Logan Lerman. Shia LaBeouf, Michael Pena et Jon Bernthal (et Jason Isaacs en guest) sont excellents eux aussi. Certains reprocheront au film plusieurs changements de tons notamment avec le passage dans la ville des deux allemandes ou encore le final héroïque. J'ai trouvé ces deux passages très bien fait malgré le personnage un peu creux de Emma et l'apologie de la guerre en contradiction avec d'autres éléments du film. Enfin, ce n'est pas un film patriotique comme l'était Ryan, Fury est nuancé, tout le monde est responsable de l'horreur et il n'y avait pas que des crapules chez les allemands. Comme le dit si bien LaBeouf: "Attends de voir ce qu'un homme est capable de faire à un autre homme". En résumé, Fury est un must du genre. Comme Il faut sauver le soldat Ryan, Croix de fer ou Un pont trop loin, Fury est un film incontournable de cette page de l'Histoire. 9/10.