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Rabb's company is based in Baghdad's green zone, in a two-room house with a volleyball net out front. When necessary, the house serves as a "restoration zone" where soldiers or Marines can spend three days "off line," getting rest and hot meals, talking through their problems. Similar sanctuaries exist on main bases throughout the country. In some instances, an antidepressant or antianxiety medication is prescribed. In extreme cases, the soldier or Marine is sent home. But the prime purpose is to prepare them to re-enter the fray, "healed" enough to undergo combat again. Rabb and other...
...strategy game yet made, the answer is yes. The level of battlefield detail is amazing, going far beyond previous Total War titles, set in medieval Europe and imperial Japan. You can direct the entire bloody battle from a distance or zoom in and see the reflection in a single soldier's helmet. You will need plenty of political skill too. Playing as the head of a top Roman household--the Julii, the Bruti or the Scipii--your job is to bring barbarians to heel while solidifying your power in the Senate. Your family tree is vitally important...
...story is simple enough. An innocent soldier, Manech (Gaspard Ulliel), has been exiled to no-man's-land by his superiors and is presumed dead. His fiancé--lovely, crippled Mathilde (Amélie's Audrey Tautou)--does all she can to find him. It's a fable of the noblest obsession, reflected in Tautou's poignant brown eyes. But it's just a part of Jeunet's grand, sad and comic panorama, which wants you to know everything about every character...
...movie have too much good stuff? Not when it's stuffed like this one. A bayoneted German soldier dies, and we literally see his last breath. A flashback to the childhood of Mathilde and Manech shows that he already loved her back then: if the crippled girl wants to see the sea from the top of the local lighthouse, he'll carry...
...booby-trapped bodies are hardly new. U.S. soldiers encountered them in Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf War and Afghanistan. The strain of this war may be unimaginable to civilians Stateside, but it is nevertheless what the troops are trained to manage. And they know that under the Pentagon's Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva convention, a soldier who shoots an unarmed, wounded combatant can be found guilty of murder...