Jack Fessenden’s sophomore feature casts the same group of actors as soldiers in three different wars.
Oldenburg Film FestivalJames Le Gros, Motell Gyn Foster, Alex Hurt, Angus O’Brien, Cody Kostro, Andi Matichak, Alex Breaux, Asa SpurlockDP Collin Brazie gives each segment a distinct, era-appropriate look, making the most of a clearly tiny budget. In keeping with the confinement of the titular setting, where soldiers huddle in illusory, or at best temporary, shelter, the drama has the intimacy of a theatrical production and could very easily have been staged that way.
That first episode offers our protagonists the film’s most charged debate. This time around, Jackson didn’t start out in the foxhole with the four other Union soldiers: He staggered in from elsewhere, very badly wounded, claiming to have fought with a rebel and to know where his regiments are located.
Where the two historical episodes directly address both doubts and the self-motivating idealism soldiers experience , the third has little room for ideals beyond survival — albeit a vision of survival in which the possibility of leaving the wounded behind doesn’t even come up for discussion.
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