Apr 10
Black Hawk Down jerks you around, slaps the side of your head, and kicks your butt back up to keep moving on. Scott and his cinematographer, Slavomir Idziak, take an already incredible true story and imbue it with a global view and an aesthetic sense that even the soldiers who were there didn’t enjoy. Intense, realistic battle sequences power this cheap dvds, magnifying the difficulty of the choice between valuing life and valuing war efficiency. While the film succeeds as a visceral testament to all the servicemen who fought in Mogadishu, particularly the nineteen who lost their lives, Black Hawk Down is more punishing than anything else.