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If you let your politics get in the way of the enjoyment of a movie I feel sorry for you. Like that woman over at morphizm.com. She pretty much labeled the movie as racist. Well you know Somali's are black, you couldn't really make them white now could you? Its calling a Civil War movie racist because it shows black slaves. Its not racist its historical.
Whatever you think the reason the US was there was humanitarian. We were protecting Food, not Oil, not a strategic resource, Food.
Anyways I loved the movie. The beginning started slow but as soon as the mission started I reached a high point of suspense and anticipation, so much so that I was literally shaking it my seat (though it might have been the caffeine), and I stayed at that level till the end.
The movie is very much like a documentary. Its pretty simple and straight forward and I really didn't see a message in it, other than "Here, this is what happened." Ridley Scott said in some Interview that he wasn't going to make a "Go America Movie." I don't think this movie celebrates the US, I think it celebrates the common soldier.
The only parts of the movie I didn't like were when they occasionally cut to the one prisoner smoking in his cell, I thought that was way melodramatic. I also don't think that little monologue by Josh at the end was needed.
This movie was about sacrifice, loyalty, and courage. Check your politics at the door because it wasn't about that. It' about what the soldiers sacrificed to save a fellow soldier. People volunteering, almost begging, to go help a fallen man, and then when they finally get permission they end up dying for it.
I could also vicariously feel the the same combination of fear and excitement through the soldiers as they went on their first combat mission.
This movie was a tribute, not to US Foreign policy, but to the courage and sacrifice of enlisted soldiers.
And no, I don't feel the same for the Somalis. Take the woman who died at the end for example, nothing made her pick up the gun other than anger, hate, and ignorance, I wouldn't say she deserved to die or anything, but her death was her own fault. No Somali would have died if they didn't attack the US soldiers. And yes, the US entered their territory first, but again, to protect food for starving people.
Someone also mentioned that there wasn't good character development, and there wasn't. Except for a few more recognizeable actors I couldn't keep any of the soldiers straight, however this isn't the type of movie that needed good character development. Perhaps it is even better without it. You don't know this soldier's name, you don't know his relationship to the other soldiers, however you see him risk his life to save someone he may not even know, and he ends up paying the ultimate price for it. You don't need character development for that.
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Chris Beasley
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