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Distinguished actors like Robert Duvall, Beau Bridges, and Aaron Eckhart give voice to the poems, stories, essays, letters, and journal entries of people on the frontlines. Weaving these dramatic readings together with interviews with their authors, Operation Homecoming transforms the written word into a living, breathing look at the human side of America's current military conflicts. An honest and intensely personal look at war through firsthand accounts, this groundbreaking documentary adds depth to individual experiences by looking at them within the context of the long and venerable tradition of war writing. By turns "poetic, comic, and chilling" (Variety), this film gives voice to those heroes who have served and lets them share their experiences with the world.
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This is hard to touch, I been there, & I want to remind that if war is played out nice in a war film it is to encourage to kill the bad guy not because it is noble,,, but it is war. To kill is not rational thinking, thats wuy when you get to training, you civil mind is broken down. But movies play it romantic to make sence of not being rational, for someting that needs to be done, so people dont need to jump out of a burning Tower.
Good Videography, Good Writing, Distinctively Anti-War
This film has great, real stories of the horror of war. The Videography is fantastic. The imagery and mood are very well done. I would recommend it. However, the producer, possibly in conjunction with the NEA, has shown his/their inability to insert some balance. This film focuses solely on everything that is/was wrong with the Iraq War - even going so far as to bring in Anti-War authors (Tim O'Brien, for example) from the Vietnam era... draftees who seem a little too eager to make victims out of volunteers. This film shows nothing of the honor and pride of the men I know whom served in Iraq. Men I know well. All West Point grads; most still in uniform. Where are their stories? Or are their stories illegitimate because they don't perpetuate the meme that this very good film wants so desperately to push? In summary, if you want to delve into the dark side of the Iraq War, free of light, then this film is your ticket. When this film quotes Hemingway, "All war, no matter how justified nor how necessary, is still a criminal act," it is pretty much summing up what the producer wants the viewer to feel.
shows it for what it is...
This movie depicts war for what it is. Horrible. But i think how General Robert E. Lee once said it puts it best, "It is a good thing that war is so horrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
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