主角因為戰(zhàn)火或意外一個接一個地失去親愛的戰(zhàn)友而他本人靠著運氣茍到停戰(zhàn)前夕卻最終沒有踏上回家的歸途無人生還眾歸于寂從德國人的視角講述戰(zhàn)爭東北往事第二季沒有榮歸故里大團圓只有恐懼愧疚恥辱導(dǎo)演在多倫多電影節(jié)首映后的訪談中說“There is nothing heroic or glorifying about war
Peckinpah utilizes the relaxed censorship to establish a new vision of the Western, questioning and abandoning many of the idealistic virtues it had previously subscribed to; portrayal of gun violence, disparate sound effects, slow motion parallel editing; 144 min director's cut