Before embarking on his first tour of duty, a young soldier and his father must face up to the painful realities that have long gone unspoken between them.
Acting
Gibson and Tiernan pack years of hurt into loaded silences.
Direction
Dickinson's debut shows remarkable restraint — lets pain breathe.
Cinematography
Cramped domestic spaces feel like emotional prisons.
Director
Harris Dickinson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dickinson made this before directing 'Triangle of Sadness' — already obsessed with performance and class.
The 2003 setting is deliberate: British soldiers deployed to Iraq, evoking the specific dread of that conflict's moral ambiguity.
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