Documentaries are thought to be one of three basic creative modes of film. While neither narrative fiction nor avant-garde, documentaries are often the work of individual filmmakers and are based on or re-creating an actual event, era, person or situation, containing no fictional information. In the early decades of documentaries, films focused on things …show more content…
Particularly in the combat sequences we see the footage filmed on go-pro’s connected to the soldiers helmets, this provides the viewers the impression they are a member of the platoon. One scene in particular where the audience notably may feel a part of the action is the last combat scene at the end of the film where the young troops has close combat which resulted in two injured Danes and the deaths of many Taliban members. As there was no interference from the filmmaker and this scene was purely from an observational stance, it cannot be said that Mentz intended to create a “good vs. evil” scenario between the Danes and the Taliban. However as discussed by Rabiger and Hurbis-Cherrier (2013), “Conflicts can even involve a struggle between opposing forces in which each side has virtuous objectives and good intentions, which makes it “right vs. right” – which is complex and challenging”