This film uses minimalism to make a pacifistic point. However, the decision to refrain from following one specific person and instead following many people without allowing the audience to make an emotional connection to any one character defeats the purpose. At the end, you don't care about anyone, so their deaths mean nothing to you. And given that most of the men take one or more misogynistic actions during the course of the movie, for some you are kind of celebrating their death. I understand that the director was trying to portray the namelessness of war, and how it will affect everyone, but his message is lost in the indifference of the audience to the characters.
Review of The Red and the White
