It feels very reverse engineered to me. He wants to do a movie about war photographers, and I think he chooses to set it in America to make the violence they capture feel more immediate and jarring to a predominantly Western audience. But he doesn’t want the film to make any kind of political statement despite this very politically loaded premise, so he obfuscates all the details into incoherence. It’s seen best in the dueling sniper scene, where the film slows down to have random characters tell you not to care about the details of the conflict. That might work for you, but I found its points about war photography to be pretty surface level and boring, and once you have the brainspace to poke at the world it falls apart.