I think that this is all the movie kind of is yeah.
The particulars of the war don't matter in the film so you get thrown in with no info.
The morals of the characters in question don't matter because all that's required to do is to get the shot. So you embed with whoever you can.
The shots don't matter. We have no idea how they're received by their editors or their audience or what even makes it to press.
So if the shots don't matter, the fact that the crew are photojournalists also doesn't really matter. The ability to find shots, their experience in this little known industry, that really means nothing because they serve no purpose in this ecosystem.
Okay, so what does matter? Not these thinly sketched characters. These folks could go down in a hail of gunfire and I wouldn't be that pressed. Not the president. Not the people in the other factions. In fact as the movie went on I became more anti-every character on screen tbh and kind of hoped they would all get it at some point, so if the point was anti-war I'm not sure that was achieved. What we get on screen isn't people animated by motivations and dreams but just automatons for the war machine. It's like everyone here is a propaganda caricature.
So that leaves me with the movie's main thrust being again the idea that war journalists don't really matter. You can take all the photos you want but it won't change anything. But does the main point of journalism not having meaning here have meaning to me? Not really, because I don't fully agree with it. If I did agree with it though this movie is way too small scale and zoomed in for me to really get anything out of that though.
So, what's left for me is just a mildly entertaining post-apocalyptic ramble through America. It's something I'll just kind of forget about in a week. It's better than Men though.
