the first 10 minute ( first war scene ) or so be so boring i stop watch at the first time . then i give it a second try and fastforwarded it to 13 minute from the beginning . there start a real surprise . the rest of the film be actually really good . for most of the film i think the war scene or flashback felt a bit out of place and and i thought they have to be make just to get the financing . most of the film they feel more like nightmare than memory from some actual event . but in the end every element get it own place in the entity of the film . everything in this film be good and in many place even ingenious and or real art and true self expression and whatever you want to call it . good acting and good casting and good sound and music and good editing and and really beautiful photography and really beautiful on location imagery all through the film . most of the film be more like poetry than linear storytelling . the voice over be best and most justified that i remember see ever in any film . also the non actor be use really good in this film . this be also the first serious troma film i have ever see ( maybe the only one there be and i do not know . ) . from this movie you can see and that eighty or seventy type of synthetisizer music and it sound can be something else than ridiculous ancient history and when use in the right place . the end be somehow predictable and but it still shock . to me the end be also a bit of a disappointment . i do not mean in an artistic or film artistic way and but mentally and personally . definitely recommend for the interested .