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Genuinely one of the most powerful sequences on film: The bordering on farcical ceremony for an American soldier who died in combat, followed by American troops toying with and kicking a chicken before killing it, followed by the cavalier treatment of an entirely innocent Afghani shopkeeper they just killed, finishing with them huddled around a combat laptop to watch Austin fucking Powers. Mobile site. Obliterates the mythology of the heroic American soldier, instead showing them and the conflict that they themselves don’t understand in brutally honest fashion, sympathetic while not shying away from the horrors of combat that briefly light up the stretches of the confused dullness of everyday life as a soldier. 2018 This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Everything about it was as good as it could’ve been, it’s truthfulness is immense, and the whole context behind this is just something to be in awe of. Though largely unwatchable, the 2018 film sharply delineated the mechanisms by which scores of American boys are, from birth, practically pre-programmed with notions of militarism, Christian self-sacrifice, and unblinking patriotism.

COMBAT OBSCURA is perhaps the rawest depiction yet of America's occupation of Afghanistan.

The footage is certainly raw, giving what feels like an honest portayal of the front lines but there's nothing to tether any of this to, so it comes off as aimless more than anything else. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window), Subscribercast #46 - Media Breakdown: Through the Camera Lens, Subscribercast #45 - Our Greatest Philosophical Mistake, If you appreciate the work I do and want to support me, http://www.mediafire.com/file/ytl8rqhnux0lth0/ClandesTime_ep211.mp3. For real though George Bush can go fuck himself.

over. Report this film. Upon discharging, Lagoze took all the footage he and his fellow cameramen shot, and he assembled the very documentary the Corps does not want you to see. This review may contain spoilers. Just out of high school, at the age of 18, Miles Lagoze enlisted in the Marine Corps. This. Film data from TMDb. powerful, essential, shocking verite doc that i can’t believe the pentagon allowed to be released.

Club review, excerpted below: ... Lagoze, who enlisted in the Corps at 18, has acknowledged an enduring obsession with Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, the poster for which can be seen in the bedroom of a young Spencer Stone in Clint Eastwood’s recent The 15:17 To Paris.

This movie is a miracle.

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He was deployed to Afghanistan where he served as his unit's official videographer, shooting and editing footage for the Corps' recruiting purposes and historical initiatives.

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Combat Obscura is a documentary shot on the ground in Afghanistan at the height of the war. Makes for a pretty damning portayal of the propaganda machine, though the film is never as focused as I wish it were. 67 mins   It’s America’s longest running war in the country's history: Afghanistan.

Effectively copying everything over from the My Movies app. I can handle the truth.

© Letterboxd Limited. Hoy les traigo un mega pack Good Old Games, un total de 430 gb de juegos de todas las epocas, divididos en carpetas para que puedan descargarlos sin ningun problema sin la necesidad de descargar todo junto. Check out the new trailer for Combat Obscura directed by Miles Lagoze! This review may contain spoilers.

Holy shit!

At one point a chicken is clubbed to death after being chased around for sport, in the same film where the marines play football with the locals and joke around. The absurd, inane, bewildering and casual violence of the war in Afghanistan, told through combat footage and on the spot interviews.

", "Everyone ends up in the same damned place. 'Combat Obscura' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on FandangoNOW, Amazon, iTunes, VUDU, Google Play, Kanopy, YouTube, and Microsoft Movies & TV . Darren Carver-Balsiger 336 films 1,636 1413 Edit, ------------------------------------------, So, first of all, this is not an attempt to…, personal canon, chronological, forever evolving top ten.

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What you don't see is any command/strategy/point, you just know the day is probably going to end with a medical helicopter, or less for the local nationals.What happens between the scenes of war propaganda?



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