Mr. Michôd, whose previous films include «Animal Kingdom,» a gamy crime drama, and «The Rover,» a dusty post-apocalyptic thriller, gestures toward the grim futility of the war on the ground. (nytimes.com)
The Magisterium has, from the 1891 Encyclical Rerum Novarum onward, consistently endorsed many left - wing ideas: the rights of workers, the value of international authorities, the virtue of sharing wealth within and across political borders, the futility of war, the need to constrain «market» forces. (faith.org.uk)
Amidst the noise of the heated televised debates and the tearful (for some) farewell to this particular weapon, the old message that once Hemingway made about the hopelessness and futility of war was all but muted. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)