In 1942, Witt was a US Army soldier who lived in that period with the locals of a small island in the South Pacific. Over time, he is discovered, where Witt is interrogated by a senior officer and sent back to his army unit. Now, Wet is actually fighting a battle with reality.
A haunting, scattered reminiscence piece, where the mind is allowed to drift through its memories, and retrieve impressions of the beautiful and the hideous, the serene and the hysterical, the banal and the profound.
LarsenOnFilm
May 13, 2011
...so gorgeous it feels as if it's being seen through heavenly eyes - at least until fresh hell rips across the screen.
It's a genuinely epic ciné-poem that essentially sidesteps history, politics and conventional ethics to deal with war as an absolute, inevitable and eternal facet of existence.
