Make them intensely personal so that we, who live in peace, may in some way grasp what it means to live there. Filmmakers in the field of the warfare genre should tell the tales of people living in warzones like Syria.
We can learn much from the news and fine war journalism, but we see so many of those images that they become devoid of meaning. Troops are perhaps no longer fully deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan, and the First and Second World Wars are far behind us, but that does not mean nothing is going on, for example in places like the Middle-East that we should know about.
Sad as it may be, there are and always will be gripping war stories to tell.
