Essential Killing is a silent, direct and inscrutable film.It challenges constantly, illumninates the boredeom of casual film viewers’ taste, and loves doing so.Vinvent Gallow plays an Afgan, possibly Taliban, it never states, who kills 3 American soldiers, in a derailing opening sequence so beautiful and simple, it’s immediacy almost pokes fun at exposition-heavy thrillers who find it necessary to add layers to their one-dimensional characters. It is a man-on-the-run action film with little dialogue, a knowingly ambigious morality, showing that if you swap nationalities with Vincent’s stark villian, it would be a hero’s tale, it’s this constant flux that demands attention though the oddests of set pieces from out running soldiers to pain stricken hallucinations ,with a performance from Gallow that perfectly encapsulates his persona dangling moral senses. He runs barefoot through -30 degree temperatures, tears through raw fish and demands the woman he suckles form is really lactating. It … There’s more →