«Dehumanizing effect of the Iraq war»

War is always ugly. It does not matter where it is fought or by whom. Soldiers are active participants in surival games that require them to kill with or without reason in order to preserve their won life or the lives of the people around them. This story is a story of the current generation of young people going to Iraq. They are used to video cameras, simple comforts of every day life, while long stays in a third world country like Iraq are having lasting effects on their psyche. Tommy Lee Jones plays a father whose sons goes AWOL. He is convinced that if his son is missing, there must be a valid reason and decides to launch his own investigation. When a body was found just outside of the city and identified as remains of his son, he is determined to find a person that committed the crime. Local police and military police fight over jurisdiction and the right to investigate the crime. Is it that military wants to keep this hush-hush, or that the local police does not want another murder on their worksheet? Caught in the battle are the grief stricken father and a female police officer, herself a victim of endless sexist torture at the workplace. What is mesmerizing is the way that a young man was killed (over 40 stab wounds with the knife, body cut up in pieces and burned). Even more troubling is the discovery that it was his military buddies who did it. What sort of experience do these young men go through to be able to kill in the most gruesome way one of their own? Are they sociopaths enabled even more by their participation in a war where killing is a part of the daily life, or just irrevocably damaged goods with no shred of consience left? Tommy Lee Jones is so good in this role. This film will make one think abour consequences of war and its affect on people for a long time. It redefines humanity and what it means to different people.

[Monday, November 10, 2008]

«GOOD PERFOMANCES CAN'T SAVE THIS OVERLY LONG DRAMA!»

'In The Valley Of Elah is an interesting story with good perfomances by Jones, Sarandon and Theron, but the film's snail pace had me wanting to fast forward at times. Although the story is interesting and sad, showing that war destroys more than the obvious. It's not like we haven't seen this stuff before and I felt like I knew where it was going long before the end of the movie. It's an OK watch about a 2 1/2 star rating, but it's really nothing new.

[Sunday, November 09, 2008]

«Typical Anti-war, Anti-American, Hollywood Communist Crap»

Well, the liberals in Hollywood have produced another anti-American propaganda film. To be certain, all war is hell, rotten, miserable, Godless, and ashamedly horrible. Man's inhumanity to man began in the Garden of Eden not the Valley of Elah. And, by the way, the liberal atheist commies couldn't get the battle of David and Goliath correct...no mention of Yahweh, the God of Israel; no mention of who David is; no mention of the insult of the Philistine's against the true God of Israel (the liberals mention that this is not a true story)...truly typical of the commie liberal Hollywood elites.

Prepare to see more and more US flags hung upside-down, and worse than that, God Himself lied about and distorted. Satan sure is having a 'field-day'.

If you want to feel miserable about who you are and the lousy wars of American history, and the Republican government; then watch this crappy communist propaganda film and enjoy what little time we all have left.

[Sunday, November 09, 2008]

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