Gutting. And brilliantly so.

That was cracking. A good single location whodunnit where the who and the what was done just continues to turn over. Absolutely cracking.

I last saw this as a teen. I knew it was good, but also out of my reach. I was a fool who knew enough to know I didn't get it.
Cut to now and I completely get it. There's so much going on in this thing. The balance of nature and man; the obfuscation of war played through the obtuse structure of the main central plot; the brutality and pointlessness of the repetitive nature of warfare.

It's a slow burn, and the voice over feels ham-fisted in parts, but be damned if Mallick didn't make this thing absolutely hum with meaning.