Your last question doesn't spoil my day, but always amazes me...

I am the engineer who is convinced: the falling tree produces sound waves, real, detectable, measurable sound waves that simply ‘happen’ completely independently of a listener being present. And then there is Ty-ty, the philosopher, who is just as sure that sounds need a perceiver for their existence. This debate will not end in agreement. It doesn't have to ;-))

War - is shit. War is not legitimate and not civilised and not humane. War in film lives from narratives, but also creates them. We are trapped in an endless loop of false values, manipulation, weakness and propaganda.