Not entirely satisfied by the library visit, and being in a bit of a bad mood besides, the next day I extended the search for escapism to the video store. So this film (after I'd watched it) struck me as a gritty, convincing portrayal of the horrors of war, strong on the heroism etc but not on the glorification of battle at all, but it's not the kind of thing to send me into raptures. Damn, I need to go into raptures more often these days. But then again, probably not over war movies...