Review of Dogfight (1991) by Blarsenusc — 30 Jun 2021

With due respect, all the critics acting as if this has no plot or any sense of momentum strike me as being a bit obtuse. Like Before Sunrise, it has the tension of its ticking clock right from the start.

Eddie is leaving to go to war in the morning, and once you realize these two might love each other that sense of not having enough time only grows more gripping. It's a beautiful film about an America about to plunge itself into one of its ugliest chapters and it's about how people can too often choose to be ugly.

It's also about the more virtuous road and the hope that at a person can choose love over brutality. I don't get plotless at all from this.