RESTREPO***** (Festival Opening Documentary, Documentary Jury Prize) In 2008, while people back home were thinking about anything but Afghanistan, a platoon was deployed for 15 months into the Korengal Valley, home of the Taliban and the most dangerous posting in the country � maybe in the world. Here, fire is exchanged several times a day, every single day. Sebastian Junger (THE PERFECT STORM) and Tim Hetherington imbed with these guys for 10 months. They eat what the soldiers eat, sleep where they sleep, do everything except carry weapons; they carry cameras instead. What you get is THE HURT LOCKER with real bullets. This is what it�s like to be in a grittily tough forward position: this is the real thing. The film is nonpolitical: you�ll see whatever armed combat happens to bring to your eyes and mind. At the Q&A afterward, Junger said he might be finished with war correspondence: from inside a Humvee, he shot an IED explosion that could easily have killed him if it had happened a half second later. Interleaved interviews with surviving soldiers four months after their hitch clearly show PTSD setting in, and you might even taste it just a little from the comfort of your chair. Any civilian who plans on sending uniformed kids off to fight ought to be forced to watch this film first.
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Posted - 04/22/2011 : 09:33:36 This death has really shaken me for some reason. I can only echo BB: Restrepo in peace, Tim. No further words.
