“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[HaughtyFrank]

Warfare

Super intense 90 minutes about a mission that couldn't feel more pointless

What I find interesting though is the discourse surrounding the movie online, with some people angrily calling it propaganda, something I just can't really agree with.

For example it opens with the US soldiers occupying a house in an Iraqi village. Naturally they don't do this by asking nicely but by essentially taking the family that lives there hostage. By that nature alone I already find it harder to see the US soldiers portrayed there as pure heroes.

There's one bit I found even more fucked up.

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At one point they leave the house to escort one of the soldiers to a tank and the soldiers make an explicit point of sending the two allied Iraqi soldiers, who are there mostly as translator, out first. Like just straight up used as cannon fodder as you can also tell that the two guys aren't all that well trained either. And as it happens, the two Iraqis get blown up with one of them dying. (which will also be the only deadly casualty on the US side for the movie).

There's no commentary inside the movie that calls out these actions as bad but I don't think you really need it to hold it your hand for this. 

One thing I found kinda tone deaf however

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is that the movie ends with a "For Elliott" dedication, a soldier who survived, while the allied Iraqi soldier that got blown to bits remains unnamed

Overall an interesting movie I found worth watching