10/10
Mostly, this movie is Important
11 January 2009
It's eloquent, but that's almost an afterthought. It's moving, but only as a byproduct. It's no Crash, I cried at Crash, in several spots. This movie is about something that's true but alien to the civilian public. Much harder to relate to. More difficult to watch. Not so much uplifting as Magnificently Instructional. The story is universal in content, not nationalistic. It's about war. Any war. War is so big and terrible that somewhere in it, these things Always happen, and those in the midst of them Always don't want them to come out.

So the movie is not just moving, excellent, well written, well acted, excellently directed, well scored.

But also Important.

More than moving, it's instructive.

It speaks a painful truth about a terrible price paid.

About a way of people interacting that should always be the Last Resort, the Dead Last Resort.

Never simply strategically advisable.

Crash was magnificent and excellent This is magnificently instructional, And as such... Important.
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