Films like Top Gun and newscasts of 9/11 motivated some Americans to enlist. Thoughtful documentaries like The Ground Truth urge the rest of us to shoulder the consequences.
...a compelling and intensely provocative new documentary that profiles a dozen veterans of the current Iraq war, all of whom are suffering its aftereffects.
Despite the film's many poignant moments (one wounded vet, who is missing a hand, says, "I don't know what I have - I just know I have a lot of it"), it ends up feeling familiar.
...exposes the poisonous hypocrisy of an administration that gives plenty of lip service to supporting the troops, but has done precious little to help returning veterans readjust to civilian life. Foulkrod's film covers little new ground, but some painful truths are worth repeating.
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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING
6.8
AVERAGE USER RATING (3 ratings)
8.3
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dack9
I've seen most of the "Iraq Docs" and this is the best one yet. It's less about the struggle for help after soldiers return from war than it is about how deeply scarred they are. You can see it in their eyes and it's heartbreaking. Also, it's only 72 minutes.
Wynns9
"A good soldier makes a bad civilian" It was too short... I wanted to hear more 'truth'.
minnesotaj7
While this IS the best of the Iraq Docs that I've seen--it's still only "pretty good." Enraging, yes: but by limiting herself to the "usual suspects" of the protest march scene, Foulkrod cuts herself and her subject short. The comparison here is (and to be fair, this is going up against one of the greats) the scene in Peter Davis' "Hearts and Minds," in which Col. George S. Patton III, standing in the field in Vietnam, calls his men, "reverent, determined, a bloody good bunch of killers."
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