Like any respectable role - playing game,
valiant decisions don't always pigeonhole players into easily identifiable groupings - classifications are based of views of control, power, and lawfulness rather that simple diametrical views of good or evil.
The civilians are headed up by Mark Rylance's Dawson, a stiff - upped - lipped father who brings his sons (notably the sadly naive Barry Keoghan, worlds away from his turn in The Killing of a Sacred Deer) with him on their
valiant quest — and it's their tiny
decisions, what truths to tell the troops they pick up (watch out for a shell - shocked Cillian Murphy), and their growing understanding of the task they're undertaking, that brings soul to these events.