The film, based on a GQ article by journalist Sean Flynn called “No Exit,” takes time to build the men who would become hotshots. They had a fascination with fire and a fear of it, and “Only the Brave” manages to convey all those complex, sometimes contradictory emotions and motivations at once. They listened to the orders of their supervisors, and they were quick thinkers willing to work through various solutions to problems, and they put themselves on the front lines constantly. Instead, the municipal firefighters based out of Prescott, Arizona, who would eventually become certified as the Granite Mountain Hotshots-firefighters overseen by the federal government, traveling the country to fight fires wherever the help is needed-were brave but principled, a little reckless but methodical. Profiting off the pain of others would never be something the men of “Only the Brave” would do. It’s the kind of unintended marketing that the men in “Only the Brave,” who gave so much of themselves to fighting fires and saving other people and who are developed so intimately and fully in this film, would find inappropriate and unconscionable. There is something strangely, upsettingly coincidental about “Only the Brave,” a movie about an elite group of firefighters putting their lives on the line to save others, coming out this week, as media coverage of the massive wildfires in California continues daily. The movie is visually and narratively strong, but falters when it steps outside of a totally masculine zone. Prepare to tear up during ‘Only the Brave,’ which boasts a talented ensemble cast in a true story about a group of elite firefighters. Some scary scenes involving firefighting, during which characters’ lives are often threatened a car-crash scene involves a car flipping over the depiction of burned animal and human bodies and a subplot involving an abused, burned horse some cursing some sexually themed humor, jokes about masturbation, and disparaging insults about women some vomit and bathroom humor characters drink alcohol to excess, smoke marijuana (which isn’t portrayed positively), and some discuss their pasts as addicts and there are a few implied sex scenes. This film ends tragically, which you could theoretically assume from how the film is being marketed and the fact that it is based on a true story, but still, it’s emotional.
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