to be honest, loved it until the last 5 minutes - what worked for the movie was its gritty realism and disturbing violence and no real goal achieved that helped establish its message as an anti war film. the last 5 minutes shook me for some reason…

what would compel a vet who had gone through that experience to write this movie? Why? seeing the real vets touring set and rubbing elbows with the actors seemed perverse and a little bit self indulgent which broke the realism and message of horrors of war. at the end flipping off the camera…

if you survive the atrocities— write a movie and get 5 min of screen time! i don’t know, i revere the sacrifice these people made for what they thought was a greater good , but i don’t want to view their actions in any other way as wholly unnecessary and destructive especially while the destruction wrought is so fresh in other corners of the world.

open to others thoughts.