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This was a difficult movie for me to watch. It played too much into what it is like to be a foreigner in a foreign land. Is it done well? Yeah pretty much. Is it realistic, probably not so much. Is it a very worthy attempt? Yeah, you bet.
The film is about who is the protagonist. Equally it is about who is the antagonist, but it leans very heavily on the protagonist side.
I've only ever seen one movie that exemplified contemporary war realistically, at least in my experience. That was "The Killing Fields". This movie is a much more subtle rendition of the same. Just for that it is very worthy of a watch.
I've given this a 10 on IMDb, simply because I suspect the nae sayers have been either armchair observers, or embedded observers. You kind of have to live within the community before you can critique it. This film is a critique of us. Specifically the west, the middle class, those who care, and indeed those of us who actually have a choice.
score 10/10
amunro-368-74378 30 August 2013
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