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Word: whydunnit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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 and essentially meaningless crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Valley of Elah: Sad, Subtle and Moving | 9/14/2007 | See Source »

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