The Final Battle film coincide with wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, both of which have come to normalize accelerated militarization and expanded conflict as a fact of everyday life. Both artistic and cinematic project attempts to contend with this deadly spiral of violence, which has a widespread psychological effect that prevents purposeful articulation and functions to undermine processes of reconciliation and social repair. With this poignant cinematic depiction of the personal and far-reaching impacts of war, this sobering antiwar movie project raises questions about the allure of violence and war that is so frequently simulated in the media surrounding Western culture. The encounter with real-life victims of violence forces a reckoning with their motivations and exposes viewers to the raw realities of trauma. The project emerges as an inexorable impasse, not for those who perish within it, but for those burdened by the enduring scars of trauma and violence.
