Movie review “Hacksaw Ridge”: Baron Blood – VG

Director Mel Gibson (60) goes for a new world record in the “war is hell”. Blodspruten he has control on. But the rest of his movie is suffering under too many sentimental weaknesses.

war drama

“Hacksaw Ridge”

united STATES. 15 years. Director: Mel Gibson.

With: Andrew Garfield, Teresa Palmer, Vince Vaughn.

One day a psychology professor to write a book about Mel Gibsons love affair to the extreme violence in the film. What caused the intense attraction? Is it horror and disgust that gets Gibson to process these feberfantasiene behind the camera, with the bible in one hand and a spritflaske in the other? Or is it something less complex?

“Hacksaw Ridge” is Gibsons first since the somewhat underrated (and extremely violent) “Apocalypto” in 2006. The story is simple enough, and based on a true story. About Desmond Doss (Garfield), an syvendedagsadventist who would like to give their against the japanese in the second world war. But that required to get make it as sanitetssoldat, without a rifle on your back, of samvittighetsårsaker.

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This conviction made him not popular in the barracks, stuffed full of macho stereotypes, nor in the angry the sergeant Howell (played by Vince Vaughn in a kind of parody of an angry sergeant). But Doss won until the end. Whereupon the “Hacksaw Ridge” develops into a fairly straight krigshelteepos. Albeit a quite exceptionally violent one.

Andrew “Spider-Man” Garfield has a naive expression on her face fits a bondetamp from Virginia, grew up with a father who was alcoholic (and violent!) as a result of the previous great war. The film’s first hour consists, like its last quarter, of the thin clichés. Doss' love affair to the nurse Dorothy (Palmer) feels naive and melodramatic. History is full of religious pathos.

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It is only when hell breaks loose, over a cliff in Okinawa in Japan, and that Gibson sparkles to life. It happens in the same second as the first bullet hits an american helmet with a sickening “clang!”. What follows is one hour with kjøttføyke, a ballet of human suffering, only interrupted by a short, paranoid breaks.

SHE WHERE at HOME: Teresa Parker plays the hero’s girlfriend and later wife, Dorothy. PHOTO: MARK ROGERS/SF NORGE.

the Goal seems to be to surpass Steven spielberg’s “save the private Ryan” (1998) in realistic krigskoreografi, and with it set a new, binding world record in the “war is hell”. Here succeed Gibson a piece on the way. The scenes are in truth gispende heinous.

It is important to be reminded of the war forferdelighet. But it had felt more meaningful to expose themselves to the ordeal (for it is a trial) if these scenes had belonged to a steadily better and more intelligent film.

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