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A Film for the Thoughtful
by ubiq (movies profile)
Feb 29, 2008
10
of
13 people found this review helpful
The core of this film is about the making of monsters, which is what you get when you send soft, coddled and deluded American kids into wars that cannot be morally justified. The subject in this case is a young man from what must be a decent, even exemplary, family that has already lost one son to military dysfunctionality. Dispatched to Iraq by family tradition and a father who should know better, this son is rapidly transformed into a monster by his exposure to the madness of war, which utterly overwhelms his upbringing and humanity. Upon his return, he himself becomes the victim of this process at work in one of his comrades. The strength of this powerful movie is the truth that it reveals: the cost of war is to be measured not in body counts but in the damage inflicted on the souls of the survivors. |
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