The Damned 2024 HDRip.BluRay Download via Magnet

46/30

In the winter of 1862, during the Civil War, the US Army sends a volunteer company to patrol the uncharted territories of the West. Minervina had the set built in Montana and then let the cast live there for two months. The dialogue and thoughts expressed are those invented by the actors as they lived in the wilderness imagining themselves as soldiers in the Civil War. Damned: Winter 1862, a volunteer unit of Union soldiers is sent to defend a mountainous territory, we are not told where it is, we do not even know the names of the soldiers. After the regular troops moved in, under the command of a John Brown-style patriarch with a flowing beard, his teenage sons also enlisted. The soldiers are mixed, some middle-aged, some elderly, most in their thirties. All lack military experience, they share knowledge and skills are passed on. We witness mobile guards, distant riders being shot. The buffalo was killed and slaughtered. The barren landscape, the hills, the mountain meadows, the snowdrifts, the cold meals that are running out, contribute to the development of a sense of existential despair. The battle continues, we do not see the enemy, we see the losses of units. War is hell, especially when you no longer know why you are there. Mostly a Ken Loach-style film without consolidated everyday dialogues and with many ordinary people acting, amateurs as soldiers. This improvisation leads to philosophical, religious and political discussions around campfires. Some of them are not welcome. But this is less of a distraction than this raw depiction of men at war. Written and directed by Roberto Minervini, 8/10.

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