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Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop  But then again, I don't find 'Combat Shock' to be all that bleak either. Yeah the events it shows are, objectively, depressing on any human level, but it just doesn't get there atmospherically. Like, having a really crummy eighties synth tune bouncing away in the background during that bit with the dole queue. Things like that I find a bit undermining. I'm being picky and / or desensitised. I do really rate 'Combat Shock' actually. But again, I tend to respond to atmosphere a lot more than I do narrative events, if that makes sense? So conversely there are loads of films which aren't particularly harrowing in terms of the events they show or the stories they tell, but which really get under my skin. |
Totally agree Frankie.
I only saw
Combat Shock for the first time last year and wondered what all the fuss was about. I think you nailed it by saying the events are grimy but the atmosphere undermined it all.
I enjoyed it as well, which seems wrong when you see what people have said on here about it in the past.