Alex Ross Perry

He's brass.

Yeah.

So anyway, we watch hundreds of war films.

Yeah.

And I can throw this on and be like, well, of course, this guy was rounded up in the communist purge and he's being accused of being an enemy of the state.

And we're off to the races.

And it's kind of fun to continue the conversation of expanding the conflict of the war and never needing to, like, pause or take a break from it.

Because you can kind of just jump into whatever and know...

Because the thing that you're missing in this movie that is really what makes good war films great is that great war films can distill the essence of the entire war into a single moment.

Often, either the beginning or the end of the movie, Schindler's List does this, the opening save in Private Ryan, it distills the essence of World War II into a scene.

And this movie doesn't have that scene.

It doesn't have the moment... That is a good call.

...that stands in for, like, and that is what it was about in Russia during World War II.

Do you like old, because to us, like the history, I mean, obviously they started making World War II films like before the war.

During World War II.

Yeah, like, but the kind of first wave, the men on a mission movies, which are just pure action films.

Yeah.

Do you like those movies at all?

I don't prefer that.

I feel like this is something I can't picture you watching because you're not like a dad in the 70s.