‘The Damned’ Rejects the War Movie Template in Favor of a More Ruminative Route
As the dialogue is mostly improvised, the Italian-born director, Roberto Minervini, has said that he chose his cast members not only for their acting skills but for their ‘intellectual abilities.’
A new film set during the Civil War, “The Damned” lands on a conundrum facing many war movies: how to depict soldiers and combat without glorifying death and destruction. Predominantly peaceful but tense, the film lays out a contemplative treatise on how to approach warfare in theory and in action, with the concept of manhood a crucial question.
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