Hell and Back Again Danfung Dennis 2011 Movie Letterboxd

Hell and Back Again

What does it mean to lead men in state of war? What does it mean to come up dwelling house? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary motion-picture show that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film well-nigh the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. Information technology is a masterpiece in the cinema of state of war.

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Not a topic I'm particularly into, but Hell and Back Again provided interesting fodder thanks to its direction and editing. The intercutting of state of war and home was well constructed and added a lot more weight to the picture. The war footage had the advantage of being cute, just it didn't hit as hard equally the habitation life - which showed a relatively normal, albeit injured, soldier returning to the real world, and displaying that fifty-fifty a well adjusted human being can however be greatly affected emotional and physically by state of war. I liked that it didn't focus around soldiers with PTSD, instead it felt more grounded, real and hit home more. Expert stuff.
One of the images that stuck with me since watching Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" was when Sergeant William James, who has since returned to the U.Southward. past the end of the film, visited a supermarket and stood in front of towering boxes of cereals. He was there but he wasn't really there. I wanted to know more than about the beat of a man that returned.

"Hell and Back Over again," directed by Danfung Dennis, turns its attending on Sergeant Nathan Harris' return to North Carolina after he has been severely injured in Afghanistan. Doped up on pain medication for virtually of the time, we observe what the state of war has washed to him physically and psychologically. Also, we see that his…
A documentary that fuses some pretty incredible access to the battlegrounds and war in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan with footage of a returned soldier trying to return to daily life. The war footage is far more compelling than the footage dorsum at home. The attempt to bring us up shut to the returned soldier is complicated by the fact that he remains kind of afar and removed, the camera having a hard time bringing him to the surface in an interesting way. Although he certainly does assist us meet the struggle of soldiers returning from war with injuries and serious psychological trauma, and in that location are some interesting moments to be found in his journey to reconciling his experience, the fact that he will…
This documentary, which intersperses footage shot during the state of war in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan with footage of one wounded soldier's struggles after he returned domicile, was as well unfocused and repetitive to be particularly powerful.
The quality of the Transitional islamic state of afghanistan frontline footage is and so good that I had to check to see if it was a reenactment. But no, documentarian Danfung Dennis traveled with these soldiers for 4 months. Despite the danger and confusion surrounding him, Dennis shows a valiant filmmaking spirit and precise filmic eye. He presents a articulate portrait of the lives and deaths of soldiers in the line of burn.

The war footage is interspersed with moving picture showing the aftereffects of combat on i item wounded soldier. A portrait that gives meaning to the word wounded, which is unremarkably just a statistic.

This well-fabricated documentary, though moving at times, is fairly pat. It shows that war is too costly, that most soldiers…
Really interesting, very honest documentary about a wounded marine returning dwelling. I call up the filmmaker wants to tell some larger truths about war and warriors, and about the challenges people tin can face who have learned to identify themselves as warriors; and he wants us to achieve some recognition for what is happening in these people'due south lives and psyches, while maintaining a respect for them and their beliefs. I found information technology very hard in places to watch, in particular the many scenes involving guns and threats that are really integrated into his day to day. It'south often obvious that people are playing to the photographic camera, the filmmaker didn't completely pretend to exist invisible; the level of trust the soldiers in the…
"They always used to enquire me, 'Why did you come to the Marine Corps Infantry?' And I would say 'To kill people.' And they would say 'That'south the best answer we always heard'"

A Marine with a bum leg teaches his conspicuously uncomfortable wife how to hold a gun. A Marine Corps Helm explains to a grouping of fed up Afghani men that the United states forces volition stop the gunfire and vacate their home village soon. These scenes occur back-to-back in Hell and Back Once more and stand every bit the most potent documentary footage in contempo retention. Less than ten minutes afterwards, a chaplain struggles through tears to get through a speech at a memorial service.
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