Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Guests Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Writer Sebastian Junger (The Perfect Storm) and photojournalist Tim Hetherington spend a year embedded with a platoon in the deadliest place in Afghanistan, the Korengal Valley ("maybe 50 percent of the insurgents... and maybe 90 percent of the engagement in the place").Unlike a lot of war docs/films, there's an ultratight focus on the soldiers and their experiences, with only a few reflection/framing interviews to surround the raw-- and I do mean that in a multitude of ways-- footage. No calls home are depicted here, no home lives, no "inprocessing"/"outprocessing"... when guys are injured, they merely disappear to "the emergency room, or wherever they take you."If you've seen "Hurt Locker" or a number of other excellent war movies/docs, you've seen something similar... but you haven't quite seen this. It's a jarring, brain-scorching 90 minutes, with the filmmakers calling as little attention to themselves (and their remarkable work). You should see it.
Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Guests Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 Caught it on a screener my journo-trade-association aunt provided, but apparently it's been showing since the end of November on National Geographic Channel.
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