The film attempts to be more cathartic than dogmatic, I'd say.
It goes well beyond the ethics of "stop-loss", our nation's back-door draft.
Students might compare the tenor of Vietnam-era "Coming Home" with this film.
Despite everything, one senses that the whole story of our violent Nation-building effort in Iraq is yet to be told, or at least fully recognized for the wounds on the corpus it has wrought. What happens when you throw 20-year olds into an environment where, at the rank of captain, you are king of the world [well worth the read], yet "the world" seems more like Dante's inferno?
From What Was Asked of Us:
[link, if you cannot get the video below to work]
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Stop-Loss
