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...biggest controversy so far, however, had nothing to do with Iraq or 9/11. It was the protest that Burns had not interviewed a single Hispanic soldier. Burns and Novick resisted changes at first (ironically, The War, like many Burns films, is fixated on race, namely the treatment of African Americans and Japanese Americans) but eventually added two Latinos and one Native American...
...Republicans want a choir boy for their soldier; he must be a pure conservative on all fronts: foreign policy, the economy, and social issues. But past Republican presidents never have been perfect. President George W. Bush bloated the federal government with Medicare Part D and the No Child Left Behind Act. His father raised taxes. Even President Ronald Reagan, the gold standard against whom every candidate is measured, granted amnesty to illegal immigrants, political suicide in today?...
...days after returning stateside from a tour of duty in Iraq, a young soldier goes AWOL. His father, Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones), himself a retired non-commissioned officer, goes in search of him. It soon becomes clear that his son was murdered and dismembered near a military base where he was temporarily reassigned, the chief suspects being four buddies with whom he served overseas. But In the Valley of Elah is not so much a whodunit as a whydunnit, an investigation of why a group of quite ordinary American soldiers would find themselves involved in such a brutal...
...Deerfield has previously ever had to consider. He has served his country unquestioningly and, as important, the movie hints that his belief system, both religious and political, is basically blue-collar, red-state conservatism. But as he investigates his son's death, he begins to see that the young soldier's life - and those of his mates - was coarsened by service in Iraq...
Some U.S. GIs return from Iraq missing more than a limb. Their minds are not so much broken as AWOL. One soldier's father (Tommy Lee Jones) wants to know what happened to his boy, and a spunky cop (Charlize Theron) helps him locate the horror. Director Paul Haggis (Crash) mines all the nuances of love, loyalty and depravity in this searing, caring drama...