Review: Restrepo
Mar. 5th, 2012 06:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalSummary: Restrepo is a documentary following a US Army Airborne unit for a year, they're assigned to patrol the Korengal Valley in Afganistan, one of the most war torn regions of the country. While there, they take a strategic hill that the Taliban had been using to rain down fire on American patrols and build an observation post there, naming it after "Doc" Restrepo, a platoon medic that was killed early on after they'd arrived.
Review: They went it to a place where the enemy hated them and the locals were stuck between depending on them for safety and wishing they weren't there. Some success was achieved with the creation of OP Restrepo, but things go to pieces after a disastrous assault on a Taliban position that results in several civilians, including children, being injured and one of their sergeants dying in combat.
You can't help but feel sympathetic as the soldiers do the best job they can, under the circumstances they were presented. But watching it, you wonder what good America is doing for anyone, as we stick our noses where we're not wanted, stir things up, and then just leave once again, leaving things little better.
Review: They went it to a place where the enemy hated them and the locals were stuck between depending on them for safety and wishing they weren't there. Some success was achieved with the creation of OP Restrepo, but things go to pieces after a disastrous assault on a Taliban position that results in several civilians, including children, being injured and one of their sergeants dying in combat.
You can't help but feel sympathetic as the soldiers do the best job they can, under the circumstances they were presented. But watching it, you wonder what good America is doing for anyone, as we stick our noses where we're not wanted, stir things up, and then just leave once again, leaving things little better.
