So ... Sebastian Junger is STILL trying to dump his militaristic garbage on to the public? Hey, we're fed up of these pathetic attempts at trying to 'humanize' a bunch of stupid imperialistic morons (who are only deemed 'special' because they're US Soldiers) who are bullying foreigners just so that a bunch of oil companies can make money off the minerals in Afghanistan. Go home, propagandaist - nobody is interested.
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I can't agree with everything that you're saying but Junger is attempting to cash in on "Restrepo Part 2" with Korengal (2014) four years later. When it came out, the war in Afghanistan was still very much relevant and the world's attention had shifted from Baghdad, Iraq to The Stan.
Had the documentary came out in 2008 directly after the 173d Airborne Brigades deployment to Afghanistan, I don't think it would have been as well received since nearly 1,000 Americans were killed in Iraq in 2007--almost double from all the American service members killed from 2001 to 2014.
I will not be seeing this documentary.
"Toto, I've [got] a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
"You make a mistake if you see what we do as purely political."
These people, these soldiers being depicted, are human beings too, whether you like it or not.
Try to see the bigger picture. You have no one to blame but yourself if all you see is a filmmaker's agenda. Especially when it comes to documentary film-making. Try to see beyond the pictures depicted.
No one really has any control over anything in this life, so taking a documentary at face value and ignoring the human elements which compose it only shows a lack of humanity on your part.
What I got from "Restrepo" and "Korengal" is that: war is *beep* Yet human beings have been raging war since the beginning of time. Just look at what it does to people. These documentaries show a tiny snippet and it hurts to watch. It hurts to imagine what countries all across the world put their soldiers through. And yet men and women still sign up to fight.
No one forced you to watch this. Too bad if you didn't like it. Maybe you weren't supposed to.
"Buy the ticket, take the ride." --Raoul Duke, the great shark hunter
Only non Americans who are not susceptible to lies can see the real picture, and you will not convince them otherwise, the whole ongoing pantomime is a farce
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