If that sounds too brittle a dramatic core, Berg tempers the spartan ideal with some pretty hokey but
probably authentic touches: the soldiers quote Ron Burgundy, bellyache about domestic chores back home, Skype their families and, in a scene that is later echoed darkly, argue over whether to shave off a comrade's eyebrows as a forfeit.
An
authentic vision may
probably be explained as a purely spiritual
touch of God affecting the innermost centre of a man and spreading from there to all his faculties, his thought and imagination, which transform this
touch.