Further to a previous comment, with regard to the hope that movies which, rather than depict a sanitized version of violence, attempt to depict the reality and horror of death and violence a means of shock therapy to dissuade the audience from sending their young off to face the reality of war, I'm not entirely convinced that that is, or ever has been effective.

Hollywood may shock and awe in it's attempt to persuade the audience to suspend disbelief for a brief while and the technology might advance to a point where movie makers even consider adding "surround smell" to the fray, so amidst the bubbling and the bleeding and the crying, one can also experience the odor of involuntary defecation and urination as well.

Even the visceral reality of such experiences has done little to stop man's inhumanity to his fellow man, even in the places where it is not a "movie", but the everyday stark raving truth of existence.

Most humans have a defense mechanism which is strong and hard wired, that provides the ability to compartmentalize and numb the being to the full experience of horrific events, in order to enable the human organism to continue to function and survive, rather than disintegrate into the puddle of stark raving lunacy. If it wasn't so, there were never be a soldier left on the battlefield or anywhere else. I have no desire to actively volunteer for this "privilege".

One of the better anti-war movies I ever attended depicted slaughter, allegorically, with a poppy.

I won't attend this kind of crap for a number of reasons: I don't find the depiction of bloody violence particularly entertaining or educational. I hate surround sound; it is a disconcerting and an annoying distraction, when my attention is focused on the screen and I have no desire to pay a premium for the smell of popcorn intermingled with farts.