There is another image in the movie where the main charater keeps dreaming that he is in a sea, naked, and he rises out of the sea with some other soldiers.
At the end of the movie it is said that the sea is his fear. So he is consumed in fear. Then he rises out of his fear to face battle. In his dream, when he rises out of the sea to meet the city before him and there are flares that are falling from the sky.
I tried to think about what this meant during the movie. Then at the end his friend tells him, (as mentioned before), that the sea represents his fear. I think, based off of that, that he had fear but he was forced to rise out of that fear in order to fight for the country. I get this idea not just from his actions but also from other characters actions.
There was one scene where 2 soldiers are in a tank and they are not sure what they are shooting at. One asks what are we shooting at and the other responds with no idea just shoot. In my mind this shows fear.
There is another example where one tank is blown up and all the men flee. My first reaction was, 'why didnt they defend themselves?' They all ran away actually most got killed except one who managed to escape. I was suprised to see that it seems that these men weren't trained to deal with the possibility of being killed. Actually, it comes up that during training or before battle soldiers were told they were going to die. This doesnt prove that they were scared, but it makes them afraid, it instead makes me think that these men were not united. This can cause lots of problems. I just think about some of the WW2 movies or American combat movies where these men are relient on each other and they know that. They are realy taught to care for each other and look out for each other. I did not get that vibe from Waltz with Bashir.
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