The co -director of war Alex Garland describes as a movie based on memory

If the famous writer/director Alex Garland will make a military film these days, you can safely argue that this will be one of the most intense and vice experiences of the year. He reached this from last year’s “civil war”, The terrible drama A24 with the participation of Kirsten Dunst and Cayley Spoenie, and he is now ready to go for two, and in 2025 the future “war”. A genuine and written co -authored with a veteran of the Iraqi War Ray Mendos, a unique turn of this movie is not that it is based on some original concept destroyed by the United States that only feels slightly More reinforced than our current-presence he was largely sold as a thriller with one place, taken simply from the memories of different people involved in this very real mission, in 2006 it went awful.

On the eve of the exit of the end of this month, A24 conducted a special check on “Warfare” and then questions and questions with the creative team. Also attended /Bill Bria who headed the charges of early reactions on social media Describing the film as the one that “combines some of the expected military films – tension, cruelty, blood – with some daring, namely a reflection of the great godmother (while, of course, it changes). Both the spare, and disordered, Garlend and Mendosa capture the war.” Eric Davis Fandang also died On X (formerly Twitter), calling it “definitely the most intense film I watched this year” and “(incredibly) exciting in my approach.” Critic Simon Thompson Added to excitement, praising it as “honest, painful, intense and powerful work.”

During the segment after the screen, both Harland and Mendosa headed in -depth discussion “War” and talked about the origins of history. According to Garland, “(the film) was based on memory. We had several photos we captured the building (which the movie was taking place). But besides, it was only an interview, and it started with Ray and I sat during the week, and Ray just unloaded everything we could remember.

This is hardly the first time Alex Garland used foggy and often controversial memory feelings to create the killer feature. His fear of horror in 2018 “Destruction” was allegedly adapting the book of the same nameBut the director, as we know, decided not to read the novel during the production and simply allowed himself to be guided by the memories of dreams, similar to the plot. (Don’t worry Author Jeff Wandermer loved what Harland did with the movie.)) Garlend seems to be similar to the tricks in the “war” as he explained further during the Q&A:

“It states that the film is based on memory because memory is a difficult thing. It is not like a video, it doesn’t look like photos. It has a lot of passage from time to pass.

However, he found that his approach this time led to some strange discoveries along the way. Garlend recalled the anecdote during the shooting of one specific sequence of “war”. While searching for a temporary headquarters, to start, the troops we follow in the movie determine a two-storey building that would best meet their needs. But, clearing the building (and waking up in a horrific Iraqi family living there), soldiers face a bizarre opening: a staircase ending with a solid brick wall upstairs, separating the bottom from the bottom, and demanding a cuts to break through (which actor Taylor John Smith was in fact).

According to Garland, a photo taken in a real building after the raid showed that this wall was actually there, but most of the actual soldiers they interviewed had zero memory about it … to the point that he almost did not include this aspect in the movie. Only a late conversation with an experienced source was only defined as Joe, convincing Garland, which was true against the background of the fog of discrepancies.

Although it was only one extremely insignificant example of how the memory strives to play on people, even abolishing adrenaline and injury and the threat of harm inherent in any combat situation, Alex Garland found that this is the most useful method of building a “war”. He, co -director/co -author Renos, and the rest of the creative team acknowledged that it inevitably means the choice and choice of certain stories of this life -changing day to find out what to actually display in the film. Historical accuracy was the main, but only within the mind. Harland continued to recognize this very idea:

“I want to say this: if for some reason someone was stuck in this house and this terrible incident was recorded, it would not be quite like this. It would be discrepancies because it was in character. We knew we couldn’t get it a hundred percent right, but what we could be the same.

Based on the stunned silence of the crowd, since the loans that swept in my recent film pressing, the end result can go as one of the most unforgettable views that you will receive this year. A24 has made a wide IMAX release for “Warfare”, and believe me, Moviegoers will want to take advantage of the format. “War” explodes at the theater on April 11, 2025.