In the Valley of Elah

Paul Haggis somber but polite drama about the consequences of the Iraq war raises some interesting questions that will haunt the US in the years to come, the way other veterans did, specially those of the Vietnam war.
Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon deliver strong performances. The film is less controversial and confrontatial than Brian de Palma's "Redacted" but I preferred the latter because we should be mad as hell about the war and politeness won't get us far to stop this insanity.
The questions the film asks is what atrocities committed by the soldiers to the Iraqis and the damages caused to those surviving soldiers and their families. As the box office failures of these films show, America is not ready to face the truth.
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