Mini-Review: A carnivorous oil tycoon embarks on a soulless journey to riches spurred by an unmatched sense of greed and resentment towards "these...people". Some of the most descriptive camera work I've seen. A demonically impulsive score really sets the tone. Many say the final scene was overboard. IMO there's no way his character and what it represented could have gone out with a lesser bang.

Mini-Review: It captured perfectly the mindset and numb acumen of the gods who condemn souls to no man's land over fine brandy. The fashionable ballrooms accompanied by light chamber music, while soldiers whisper in the dark barracks about the inevitability of death waiting in the morning - Truly the sinew of all war. The last voice of a female; it wasn't mama's, but a foreigner's farewell lullaby. What torture to be reminded of the innocence you have lost, and the humanity you will likely never find again.