Movie #126........................."Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience"

Movie #126 "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" is an important film to watch ---- as one of the soldiers so well points out in his poetry ---- he said he doesn't even bring Iraq up because no one wants to talk about it. This isn't a movie for everyone, though. It harkens back to a very long verse round that one judges in Speech because most of this is recited (the voices ARE done well since they are actors reading the script) The visuals are just okay, but it mostly depends on the audial, so if that isn't your channel to experience a story, you might not get much out of this. Lots of stuff is said in here about the war experience (there are quotes by famous authors that hit home and are used for transitions that are effective, as well). And this all NEEDS TO BE SAID, so I recommend it for people who want to know the real personal story and not the one on the news for 15 seconds every night.





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Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
(2007) NR
Veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan recount their war experiences in this Oscar-nominated documentary, which collects the writings of soldiers and their families to give a deeply personal view of American troops' involvement in these conflicts. Various visual strategies complement the interviews and readings by such noted actors as Robert Duvall, Beau Bridges, Blair Underwood, Aaron Eckhart and writers Anthony Swofford, James Salter and Tobias Wolff.