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Tango01 | 24 Jan 2017 11:58 a.m. PST |
"The American veteran experience is one that is wholly unique, and also extremely personal. While citizens can certainly show their support in a number of ways, it's impossible to entirely empathize with exactly what it's like to fight in a foreign warzone for our country. It's through first-hand accounts and, yes, fictional art that we can hope to understand a mere portion of what it's like. That's one of the primary focuses of filmmaker Alexandre Moore's Iraq War drama The Yellow Birds. Based on the novel of the same name by Iraq War veteran Kevin Powers, the film tracks a pair of privates in the U.S. Army through their experience, while offering up a mystery narrative hook. While the film ultimately gets too hung up on this mystery aspect, thereby softening the blow of its finale, it rings true to a dark, emotionally complex PTSD experience and proves, once again, that Alden Ehrehreich is a movie star in the making. Ehrenreich plays John Bartle, a 20-year-old misanthrope who joins the Army because he can't really think of anything else to do. At the behest of his obviously-a-little-unhinged superior Sergeant Sterling (Jack Huston), he's paired up with another new recruit, Daniel Murphy (Tye Sheridan). Murphy is a wide-eyed 18-year-old from a military family who sees joining the Army as an early pit-stop on his eventual career path—something he does out of duty, but that will ultimately be a significant footnote in his life's story. As the two witness the horrors of war together, their bond grows stronger, but the film's fractured narrative jumps ahead to Bartle and Sterling coming back home, while Murphy has been officially listed as Missing in Action…."
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