Alex Garland, co -director of Warfare, describes how the film depends on memory

If the famous writer/director Alex Garland will make a war movie these days, you can betray safely as it will turn into one of the most intense and visible experiences this year. It was exactly that this was accomplished with the “Civil War” last year last year, The terrifying drama of the A24 starring Kirsten Dunst and Kali Spaini, and he is now scheduled to go to two for two people with the next “war” for the year 202 slight More than our present-instead, was widely marketed as the one-location excitement was largely removed directly from various memories of individuals participating in this very real task in 2006.

Before the release later this month, the A24 hosted a special show for “Warfare”, followed by a question and answer with the creative team. Also in the attendance was /Bill Berra, which led the charge of early reactions on social media By describing the film as “it mixes some elements of the expected war films – tension, brutality, and blood – with some bold, that is, depicting the absolute deposit of the war (even, of course, turns). Eric Davis from Vandango On X (previously Twitter), described it as “definitely the most intense movie she watched this year” and “(incredibly) overwhelmingly in his approach. Critic Simon Thompson Added to the noise, praising it as a “honest, horrific, intense and powerful piece.”

During the post -screen sector, Garland and Mendoza led an in -depth discussion of “Warfare” and talked about the origins of the story. According to Garland, “(the film) was dependent on memory. We had a few pictures that we got from the building (in which the movie happens). But regardless of that, that was just interviews, and I started with Ray and I was sitting for a week and only seeing everything that he could remember. Then we talked to the largest possible number of people.”

This is the first time that Alex Garland has used the feelings of blurred and non -contradictory memory often to formulate a fatal feature. Dust dust horror for the year 2018 The “genocide” was apparently adapting to the book of the same nameBut the director chose the famous not to re -read the novel at all during production and simply allowed to be guided by his memories of the dream -like tone. (Don’t worry, The author Jeff Vandermeer loved what Garland did with the movie.

“He says the film depends on memory because memory is complicated. It is not like a video, it is not like photographs. It is actually affected in reality only by the time it passes. But it is also affected by stress and is affected by shock and is also affected by concussion. So there are many layers of reasons that make the memory complicated to work with it as well, but it was also.”

However, he found that his approach this time led to some amazing discoveries along the way. Garland recalled a story while filming a specific series of “War”. While searching for a temporary secession headquarters, the forces we follow in the film decide a two -storey building that would suit their needs. But while cleansing the building (and waking up from a terrified Iraqi family that lives there), the soldiers face a strange discovery: a drawer ends a wall of the upper steel floor in the upper floor, and separated the upper floor unit from the basement, and it requires a heavy groove (which the actor, Taylor John Smith, actually to do easily).

According to Garland, the image taken inside the actual building after the raid indicated that this wall was already present, but the majority of the actual soldiers who met them had never had zero memory at all … to the extent that this aspect did not include almost in the movie at all. Just a late conversation with a knowledgeable source that was identified only that he persuaded Joe Garland that this is the truth amid fog of contradictions.

Although this was only a very secondary example on how memory tends to play tricks on humans, until adrenaline allocated, shocking and threatening to harm in any combat situation, Alex Garland found that this method is the most rewarding to build a “war” plot. He, co -manager/co -writer Ray Mendoza, and the rest of the creative team that this definitely means choosing and choosing some novels for this fateful day to know what he is already filming in the movie. Historical accuracy was of utmost importance, but only within the limits of reason. Garland continued to admit this same idea:

“I want to say this: If someone has been suspended for some reason all over this house, and this terrible accident has been recorded, it will not be just like this. There will be differences because that is in the nature of the memory. We knew that. We knew that we could not get a hundred percent, but what we could be as loyal as possible.

Based on the amazing silence of the crowd as the credits were distributed in the last press release of the film, the end result may decrease as one of the most unforgettable viewing experiences that you will face this year. The A24 adhered to the IMAX version widely for “Warfare”, and the confidence of me, cinema pioneers want to take advantage of coordination. “War” explodes in theaters April 11, 2025.