The darkness does not fade

[serai]

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So I finally broke down and watched Black Hawk Down last night. Jesus fuck, what a depressing movie. I almost shut it off at the halfway mark. Between the unrelenting grimness and my developing queasiness at the very idea of trying to recreate something like this in the first place, it was too much, but I managed to finish it.

Remember that old song? War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing! This is the part of humanity that makes me glad we're heading down the hole, frankly - the entire constellation of violence, bloodshed, war, all of it. It's fucking obscene, but it's also the reason we're human and not something else. We can't get rid of it, so good fucking riddance to us, I say.

Fucking hell. That is it, I swear - no more fucking war movies for me. End. Finis. Done.
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Yeah, SPR was similar, but for me it was really just that first section, the one about the Normandy landing, that messed me up. That was truly relentless. (I was particularly freaked out by seeing the bullets under the water. Somehow that had never occurred to me before.) But after that section, I wasn't as shattered by it, maybe because of the quest aspect, finding the guy. Gave the story a focus. But this? This is just back and forth, crisscrossing the same unnavigable landscape over and over, getting hideously picked off one by one, in a manner both bloody and savage. Sure, it's hell, but I don't want to go to hell, even in a fucking movie! LOL, it's just so awful.