Epitaph

Rating: Null/10 (7 August 2002)

WH Auden wrote in Epitaph of the Unknown Soldier "To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
After watching this movie, I cant help but ask myself what purpose was served by the US presence in Somalia. The US Army failed miserably - they had no influence on the long term plight of the Somali people.

What the movie does is try to give value to the lives that were wasted. It proposes that there was some meaning to the death and destruction - the soldiers died for each other. It presents its case in a format so graphically expletive that it will etch a space in your mind for a long time to come. No pleasantries here. The waste of life is soul destroying.
Would I recommend the movie? Yes. Why? Because when I was walking out the cinema complex, I couldnt help but think that somewhere, there were 19 dead US Soldiers asking "Why?"