Restrepo

**jim5cents** · 02-02-2011, 02:03 PM

If any of you have the means or the chance, check out the documentary, Restrepo. The film follows a platoon of American soliders into the Korengal Volley in Afghanistan for a period of over a year. It is excellent.

It is available on the instant queue on Netflix.

**Slime Slayer** · 02-02-2011, 02:07 PM

Pass.

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Just not my type of film is all.

**jim5cents** · 02-02-2011, 02:29 PM

I know.

**RU Joe** · 02-02-2011, 04:37 PM

At least it isn't Care Bears 2.

Seriously though, I'm interested in this documentary; what's the premise?
Is it just an account of their daily lives as Soldiers or is it politically aligned?

**CrispyChicken** · 02-02-2011, 07:50 PM

Hmm, sounds interesting. I use Netflix frequently, and I have a movie I just got today I am going to watch. I'll probably get it off the instant queue to watch Thursday or Friday.

**jim5cents** · 02-02-2011, 07:52 PM

I didn't think it was political at all.

Specially, it follows a platoon from their deployment to Korengal, a region of heavy combat in Afghanstan, the construction of an outpost named after one of their comrades killed in action, patrols and interactions with the locals, and how the soliders pass the time. The footage is intermixed with the soldier's accounts of the events in interviews after they returned to the States.

Language is pretty crude, multiple scenes of combat, several disturbing images if you are watching and children are around.

**RU Joe** · 02-02-2011, 11:55 PM

Why does that storyline make me think of Full Metal Jacket?
It does sound interesting, and thanks for the heads - up on the content.
I would have just sent you directly to the front lines of a documentary without thinking.

I'm going to have to look for this one.

**Slime Slayer** · 02-02-2011, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by jim5cents

I know.

You've gone too far this time Jim!!!

**jim5cents** · 04-22-2011, 11:48 AM

Co-director of the film, Tim Hetherington, was killed in a mortar attack this week covering the events in Libya.

Pulitzer prize winning photographer, Chris Hondros was killed in the same attack.

**RU Joe** · 04-24-2011, 02:42 PM

Sorry to hear about that - I hope they at least reported some truth, like how the U.S. has 'joined forces' with the very same Al - C.I.A. - duh operatives they were fighting in other regions.
The enemy of the Globalists' enemy are their friends, it seems.

{but in reality Al Queda - literally, 'the database' - is something the C.I.A. created back in the days of Afghanistan}

Since Libya is only a 'kinetic military action', {not a war} those 'dead' people must have simply 'entered a prolonged period of rest with no foreseeable end'.

Exactly how Orwellian will this get?
Anyone can see that it's all about Gaddafi nationalizing his country's oil.