dude if someone wrote this for a movie people would say it’s too on the nose.
moving to another country to avoid “indoctrination” is exactly what a movie character would do as a metaphor for inner struggle.
being sent to die for a fascistic country would be the metaphor for the idea that running away from your self by finding refuge in reactionary attitudes inevitably killing you inside.
dude if someone wrote this for a movie people would say it’s too on the nose.
moving to another country to avoid “indoctrination” is exactly what a movie character would do as a metaphor for inner struggle.
being sent to die for a fascistic country would be the metaphor for the idea that running away from your self by finding refuge in reactionary attitudes inevitably killing you inside.
and him having a bunch of gay sex with fellow russian conscripts on the front lines is a metaphor for, uh… well its a metaphor