Sunday, July 10, 2016
Too tough
Today's film is undeniably a good film about modern warfare.
It has good "bones". A well structured buddy film laid along modern battle lines. Afghanistan.
It is also admirably realistic. There are no pulled punches here. Bullets rip flesh. Wounds bleed profusely. People you develop a liking for get killed.
The tension is unrelieved. It is realistic. No place to go and we are surrounded.
And it is too much for an older man with a faint heart. I know all these young men are going to get killed. Except one. The tipoff is in the title.
I had to bail out. But I do not want to give this film a low rating. It is too good for that.
Maybe I will skip that part.
As a casualty, I will just lay on the stretcher and let them take me back to home base where I can take a nap, have a snack and not worry about those rag head motherfuckers on the other side of the hill.
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