The writer and director David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) makes a current film, partly truth and partly parody, centered on the dizzying rise and subsequent fall of an American general, emphasizing the disquieting impossibility of distinguishing between the tragic and the comic. His story of a surreal war is arrayed against the system and in favor of the soldiers, tracing the portrait of a man with a natural propensity to the command that comes to cross the borders of the absurd. Brad Pitt shrewdly interprets the charismatic and highly decorated general, who succeeded in getting the command of the NATO forces in Afghanistan, and then became a victim of his own arrogance and succumbed to the ruthless reportage of a war journalist...
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