Left me with a good feeling

Rating: Null/10 (5 June 2012)

I must say I jumped quite a bit through this film, though I am not easily startled. Being a combat veteran, this film brought the realist intensity of war that I have ever seen. The point of view camera angles made me feel as if I were truly there. I caught myself trying to make my own schemes of operating in those conditions. It was a n incredible feeling to be so involved throughout this entire viewing. Though the most important aspect of the film to me, was not the film itself but how it affected those watching it around me. They were experiencing war for the first time. And for the first time it was not a story of heroism, nor glory, but instead survival. War is a hell of a thing based around decisions, that you make and decisions that you will live with. I think it is important that people understand it is not a game. And that this is what really happens. I appreciate the awareness of war that this movie created for the people I was viewing it with because I think it is so easy not think about it when its not around you. But it is taking place everyday. By the end, everyone was startled and feeling uneasy. I laughed. That was only two hours. That wasn't real. I get to go home now. These people only got a taste. That left me with a good feeling.