![]() (If such incidents appear to be increasing in recent years, that’s because they are.) Only the Brave follows a real-life group of men from an earlier incident: the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of young wildfire specialists from the fire department in Prescott, Arizona, whose ordeal in the Yarnell Hill fire of 2013 was harrowingly depicted in a GQ magazine article, on which the film is partly based. It’s also quite timely, given the wildfires currently consuming much of Northern California. Only the Brave is a visually splendid, spellbinding, and surreal movie that also happens to be an emotionally shattering, over-the-top ugly-cry for the ages. ![]() The image returns a couple of more times over the course of the picture, a memory that fire crew superintendent Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin) describes as “the most beautiful and terrible thing I’ve ever seen.” Clearly, director Joseph Kosinski has taken that idea to heart. In the opening shot of Only the Brave, a flaming bear - not just a bear that happens to be burning but one that looks as if it had been created entirely from fire - lunges at the camera in the middle of a blazing forest. ![]() Holding the line: Josh Brolin leads his men to battle.
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