See, this is why Truffaut never made war movies Your review is spot on, and picks up even more problematic tidbits than I’ve been able to spot over the years

It’s nearly impossible to depict something onscreen/onstage without it seeming like an endorsement, if even only to a small, misguided sliver of the audience, violence, especially, is by nature ambiguous - Joel Schumacher just didn’t have the chops to even come close to walking that line