Germany in the spring of 1945, a field of corpses: Shadowy rises at the beginning of “Heart of Steel” a figure on a muddy wasteland. It is US Sergeant Don Collier (Brad Pitt), who makes a reconnaissance mission over the scene of bitter fighting. An SS officer still twitches, Collier pushes him his bayonet through the eye. Only angry, exhausted, he looks as if he finally rises to his men on the Sherman tank, the only US combat vehicle that has remained in this battle healing. America win the war, but the losses, both physically and mentally, are great.
“Fury”, ie fury or rage, called David Ayers war film in the original, and it is also on the gun barrel of the tank to its crew to do it. The problem is that angry, steel goddess of vengeance of Americans is fast and agile, but can in terms of armor and armament hardly stand against the brutality of the German “Tiger I” -Kolosse. Analogous to a known lighter brand the Shermans were in the US Army derided as “Ronson lighters” because they are so easy aufgingen under fire in flames. Each insert in the endless meadows and fields of the German province was a suicide mission. Everywhere, behind every bend in every village, parts could have holed up of Hitler’s last squad.
“Heart of Steel” takes up where “Saving Private Ryan” ceased. Steven Spielberg’s World War Opus began today unmatched relentless re-enactment of the landing in Normandy and ended up as a classic platoon movie more or less heroic men f ates in the hinterland. In Ayers film have passed since the D-day months, the efforts of the stage could evaporate the last remaining euphoria of victory. Cynicism and fatigue dominate the liberating force that vorkämpft step by step towards capital. The fury that is no longer the ironically titled tank, but the war itselfMental Cataclysm
Ayers film has everything a good war film needs:. The dirt , the noise and the frightening silence that rußverschmierten faces with fearful eyes, squeeze inside the tank, the thrilling action of the fighting, the brutality of good and evil. But “Heart of Steel” is also a part surprisingly gentle psychological drama about the formation of what is now called posttraumatic stress disorder: the emotional ravages of war.
Both grandfathers of director Ayer were US soldiers in World War II, he made several years of service in the US Navy on a submarine before he started making movies about men in extreme situations. The now 46-year-old wrote the screenplay for the police thriller “Training Day” and directed the pseudo-documentary cop drama “End of Watch” with Jake Gyllenhaal. For “Heart of Steel”, he relocated the scene of his stress stories from the streets of LA in the last throes of World War on German soil.
Collier and his team tanks form a community of purpose that follows its own rules. The crew includes the Latino helmsman Gordo (Michael Pena), the duration of cursing Redneck handlers “Coon-Ass” (Jon Bernthal), together with the godly Gunner Boyd “Bible” Swan (Shia LaBeouf) operates the gun. A new addition comes the young recruit Norman (Logan Lerman).
The sergeant immediately recognize that the moral nor integrity boar could put his team through fear and scruples in danger, forcing him to shoot a captured German soldiers. Norman defends herself with hands, feet and tears against this constraint, the Collier considers necessary to harden the young soldiers and ensure the survival of the group.
A tense test of civilization
A hard, questionable scene. Ayer she countered with a long, atmospherically dense sequence in the middle, in the Norman Collier and make yourself comfortable with two young German women in a village. The US soldiers behave politely and respectfully in this situation over grip, there is tenderness, and it is eaten at the table – a tense test of civilization in the midst of barbarism. Collier, played by Brad Pitt with a crew cut, broad cross and brooding grimaces as John Wayne tribute to Norman behaves like a strict but good-natured father, who suffers from his self-imposed hardship well. His proteges not call him for nothing “Wardaddy”.
Shia LaBeouf as sanctimonious “Bible” in this situation takes on the role of emotional mother figure, Pena and playing Bernthal Norman brutalized older brothers. When they upset the cozy quartet, the mood in the simple apartment of tilts peaceful too aggressive. It was with difficulty Collier can prevent the impending outbreak of violence. But he prevents him
This works the tank Patriarch at the dinner table, but not on the battlefield. To showdown of his must-see, between shock and Beauty finely balanced film Ayer sends the men of his nuclear family along with her soon damaged tanks in the ultimate parent and test at a strategic crossroads completely insignificant in the middle of nowhere.
In the interior of the tank, the existential drama of combat soldiers compacted to the birth of war trauma of screeching steel. A nightmare from hissing bullets, burning bodies, exploding bombs and lost innocence, will never end well for him who survives him.
Heart of Steel
Original Title: Fury
Written and directed by: David Ayer
Cast: Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Michael Pena, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Bernthal, Scott Eastwood
production Le Grisbi Productions, Crave Films, Huayi Brothers Media
Distribution: Sony
Length: 134 minutes
From: January 1, 2015
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