THE GOOD SOLDIER

Chicago premiere!
THE GOOD SOLDIER
2009, Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys, USA, 79 min.

“It’s hard to imagine watching a more affecting movie…I’ll never look at the words ‘collateral damage’ in the same way again.”—Jason Albert, The Onion

Five veterans of four wars—WWII, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and Iraq—give deeply personal testimony to the price paid by men and women who have volunteered to fight America’s conflicts around the globe. Emphatically pro-soldier but anti-war, this film charts the harrowing inner journey taken by veterans who now live with nightmares, guilt, and regrets despite their whole-hearted embrace of the military ideals of honor, brotherhood, and patriotism. “Your real bare bones job is to go out there and kill people,” explains one Vietnam vet. What happens after a young American is transformed into a ruthless killing machine is at the dark heart of THE GOOD SOLDIER. HDCAM video. (BS)