War Machine addresses the debt we owe to soldiers to question the purposes to which they are being directed.
Probably the last thing you’d expect from the director of gritty Aussie crime drama Animal Kingdom is a searing, Coen brothers-level satire of the American war in Afghanistan — but that’s exactly what David Michod delivered with War Machine.
Based on the book The Operators: The Wild & Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan by the late journalist Michael Hastings, War Machine hits Netflix on May 26.
His is an anti-establishment, pro-soldier exploration in the form of an absurdist war story of a born leader’s ultra-confident march right into the dark heart of folly.