Hell and Back Again Movie 123
Marine Sgt. Nathan Harris is a natural leader of men. We sense that during the boggling combat footage in "Hell and Back Again," non because he behaves heroically or makes eloquent speeches, but considering he knows his job and believes in it. He'due south in his mid-20s, sometimes looks and sounds younger, and all the same his sense of mission carries him forward and we sympathize why men would follow him into danger. He seems to be a skilful man, brave, simple.
Well-nigh the end of a 6-month tour in Afghanistan, a sniper'southward bullet "blows half his ass off," as he puts it in "Hell and Back Again," one of this twelvemonth'southward nominees for the best documentary Oscar. He is not shy nearly describing his wound. More once during this flick he pulls downwardly his chugalug to allow people to run into the crater left on his right hip by a bullet, and and then he explains how it penetrated to his hip socket, "messed that upwards" and bounced off to shatter his leg lower down. The outset fourth dimension he explains this, he is sitting in a battery-powered cart in a Wal-Mart, talking to an elderly adult female shopper in a matching cart. "Tin can I requite y'all a hug?" she says, and his grinning suggests how much backed-up tension that released.
Harris was lucky not to be paralyzed. He is disappointed to learn that information technology will have him a year of rehab earlier he can think about going into combat again. We privately sympathize his gainsay days are in the past. Hasn't he paid his dues? He doesn't call up so. We don't know him well plenty. Even when he was a child, he says, he wanted a job where he could kill people. That's why he enlisted in the Marines at eighteen. At present he's washed a little growing up, he reflects, and things no longer seem that uncomplicated.
In Afghanistan, he clearly believes in the U.S. mission from deep in his heart. In that location are 3 scenes where he talks with village elders through a translator, explaining how he and fellow Americans are in that location to bring them freedom. The elders are not convinced. The American and the Taliban are withal to them, destroying crops, disrupting rural life, causing many to flee from areas altogether. They seem to have no honey for the Taliban, but foreigners come and become and the Taliban is ever there.
Director Danfung Dennis, a photojournalist, carried one of the new compact Catechism cameras into the field with Harris' Echo Company, following them on foot as they encounter fields and proceed gingerly into villages. Some are point-of- view shots of a man itch on his stomach under burn — as Dennis was doing. We never really come across a Taliban fighter, but they're out there. On Echo Visitor's beginning day, they lose a Marine. Subsequently comes the wound that changes Harris' life.
He returns home to Northward Carolina and his wife, Ashley, his loftier school sweetheart. She is lovely, sweet, patient. After surgery and rehab, her husband is released to her care, and we meet her at a Walgreens prescription counter, ownership enough pills and so that the orange plastic bottles fill a Zip-Loc bag. One contains Vicodin. Some wounded soldiers who miss dying in combat are struck down by prescribed medication.
Harris uses a wheelchair and and then an aluminum walker to get around. He talks well-nigh trying once more and once again to take three steps on his own, falling, and trying again. He and Ashley take a tranquility home life that seems sad to me, because if he cannot go into battle, an essential part of him has been lost. There are times, she says, when it's like he's become unlike man.
"Hell and Dorsum Again" presents his new reality with a stunningly good employ of video and sound editing. His life at home, its sights and sounds, are intercut with his life in Afghanistan. His war memories are always with him, and in some respects, seem more than real than his home life. He was never a total-time hubby, nosotros sense; he was a soldier home on leave.
In its closing scenes, "Hell and Back Once more" builds to an emotional and stylistic power that we didn't see coming. In the darkness of nighttime, in pillow talk, Nathan tells Ashley of the thoughts and memories that haunt his dreams. We realize she has her own kind of heroism in standing by this man. He was most fully alive when he was leading his men into combat; he believed in his usefulness and the worth of his mission. Now that he cannot serve and can barely walk, he is beginning to understand how much he has lost. He hasn't lost only the total use of a leg. He has lost the full use of himself.
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert was the moving picture critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his expiry in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
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Hell and Back Again (2012)
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