Minervini built the sets in Montana, and then let the actors live in them for two months
Scenario
In the winter of 1862, during the Civil War, the US Army sends a volunteer company to patrol the unexplored western territories. Dialogues and expressed thoughts are those that the actors came up with, living in the wilderness, imagining themselves as soldiers of the Civil War.. Curse: In the winter of 1862, a volunteer detachment of Union soldiers was sent to protect the mountainous territory, we are not told where it is, we do not even know names of soldiers.
We see mobile temporaries, shots at distant riders
After the regular troops leave, they are commanded by a patriarch in the style of John Brown with a flowing beard, his teenage sons also enlisted. The army is a mixed group, some middle-aged, even old, most in their thirties. All of them lack military experience, they share knowledge and skills that are passed on.
The buffalo was shot and butchered
The dreary landscape, the hills, the mountain meadows, the snowstorm, the cold rations ending - all this heightens the sense of existential despair. There is a battle, we don't see the enemy, we see unit losses. War is a pain, especially when you no longer know why you are there.
Some of them are delayed
Very much in the style of a Ken Loach film, with no established day-to-day dialogue and lots of ordinary people playing non-professionals as soldiers. This improvisation leads to philosophical, religious and political discussions at the campfire. But this is a minor distraction from this crude image of people at war.
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