A Wounded Soldier Turns His Fire on the War
di Manohla Dargis The New York Times
Drenched in emotion and suffused with good intentions, “Body of War” is impossible not to like, but difficult to admire. Produced and directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue (yes, that Phil Donahue), the movie uses the wrenching story of one American soldier to mount an angry if unfocused jeremiad against the war in Iraq.
In March 2004, Tomas Young, a 24-year-old new Army enlistee from Kansas City, Mo., arrived in Iraq. Almost immediately he was in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (“Home of Warrior Care,” as its Web site puts it), on the unfathomably difficult mend from a bullet that left him paralyzed from the chest down. [...]
di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (2630 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 7 aprile 2008
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