"Dave Smith" > wrote
>
> We do no one any favours by making the maiming and killing of humans look
> glamorous.

Again, not the point and the other end spectrum. An extreme.

The art of film making is not simply to recreate something as
realistically as possible. There's a middle ground.

The horror of warfare is not lost on many of us even if we
do not hear and see the bullets slamming into the flesh.

You convey a reality and tell a story. That's art.

Some folks are numbed out as to the horror of violence,
largely pimply suburban ****heads who do not see children
blown away before their eyes in their own neighborhoods.

Perhaps SPR missed its calling and should be used as therapy
for said ****heads.