Several reviewers have mentioned the final scene where the two 70-year-old sailors, after twenty years of separation, sit at a bare table, drinking, saying little, then saying nothing, sharing unspeakable memories in silence. You wait for words, but no words come, and you realize that you, the viewer, are being challenged to find the words. But what can one say? What can one say of two once proud, skilled and vigorous seamen, whom the trauma of war has reduced to spiritless shells, who, although they outlived the war, did not actually survive it. That we also find no words, that we look on in subdued silence, is testimony, perhaps, to the power of the experience we have just seen depicted in this extraordinary piece of cinema.
Review of War Sailor
