barbarism

If Mr. Safdie’s intent is to make the fights seem like meaningless barbarism, he has succeeded.

It’s a movie that tackles what it means for young people to volunteer for organized barbarism out of desperate need — as well as the consumption of their destruction as entertainment.

Within weeks, Pablo Picasso’s painting “Guernica” was on public display, boosting global revulsion at such barbarism.

That descent into “barbarism” was not lost on contemporary observers.

The barbarism is in sync with the belief that “no innocent people” are in Gaza.