Wednesday, April 27, 2011
WAR IS HELL
Today's film was Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger's Afghanistan documentary
Coincidence. Hetherington was killed just the other day in the fighting in Libya.
This film. Heart breaking. Shocking. Exciting. Real.
These two guys stayed with the troops as they built an outpost that turned the tide in one small part of the war. Never mind that the US pulled out of this valley after the advance.
Restrepo is a beloved company member. Killed. The outpost is named after him.
We see the soldiers after they are brought out of the war zone. Telling the story. We see the same soldiers in action film, with sound, that is so immediate and real that one wonders how it could have been made. Well, technology is how.
It is very hard to watch. But it is harder to ignore all this shit that we have stirred up.
Still stirring as the clock ticks along.
It is a great film. Well, made. Finely edited. In that respect, it deserves a 5 out of Netflix5.
But I couldn't watch it again. It is outside my rating "system". A fine memorial for a fine film maker, Tim Hetherington (right).
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