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If that tack sounds, well, political, the nlmrnakers- Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, veteran war correspondents who repeatedly risked their own lives for the movie- would much prefer to call it something else "Left-wing people- and I include myself among those people- tend to have this idea that war is the expression of some kind of modern UL of civilization gone wrong," says Junger by phone from Houston, where he's promoting his book WAR, the film's companion piece. Junger, whose dozen years of death-defying journalism in Afghanistan have made him no stranger to adrenaline says that an even stronger narcotic for Steiner and his platoon buddies is the buzz of social inclusion For a 19-year-old to feel necessary as part of a small group of men, to have a completely clear identity and a reciprocal duty to those around him, thaf s intoxicating Tm one of the two 40-gunners on weapons squad, and my job is to shoot' When a young guy builds his identity around that and then comes home where he's just another 19-year-old, why would some part of him not want to go back into combat?
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Film Is a Battlefield
Film Is a Battlefield
Journalists go to war for RestrepoTrailing a platoon of US. Army soldiers in Afghanistan, Restrepo is a nerve-jangling work of "you are there" combat correspondence It's also being pitched as the first apolitical war documentary of the post-9/11 er...See the full content of this document
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