{"id":13858,"date":"2016-03-30T18:21:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T23:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=13858"},"modified":"2016-03-30T18:21:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T23:21:26","slug":"war-movies-worth-a-damn-only-the-dead-have-seen-the-end-of-war-is-a-tough-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/30\/war-movies-worth-a-damn-only-the-dead-have-seen-the-end-of-war-is-a-tough-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"War Movies Worth A Damn: ‘Only The Dead Have Seen The End of War’ is a TOUGH Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some Vets may have mixed emotions about this documentary. I will war you, some parts are NOT easy to watch, but unlike most people, I could care less about the jihadi Muslim POS that die in this documentary. What I care about is<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0watching America’s finest do their jobs like Ssgt.\u00a0David\u00a0Bellavia’s amazing story in the Battle for Fallujah\u00a0in 2004, which is immortalized in the Book House to House<\/a>,\u00a0Bellavia single-handedly killed 5 insurgents in close-quarters combat, some of it hand-to-hand. The footage showed from that encounter alone is worth the price of admission IMO.-SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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But Watch It Anyway.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to write about HBO\u2019s new documentary Only the Dead See the End of War<\/i><\/strong> without spoiling it. The final 15 minutes are a revelation \u2014 and they retroactively inform the whole film. Without them, Only the Dead\u00a0<\/i>kinda feels like war pornography. Albeit war pornography accompanied by the ramblings of an unhinged adrenaline junky.<\/p>\n

But those final moments \u2026 Well, they change everything.<\/p>\n

Only the Dead See the End of War<\/i> is a documentary that makes demands on its viewers. Filmmaker Michael Ware, a former CNN reporter who was with the network\u2019s Baghdad bureau during the worst years of the American occupation, is calling himself to account for his role in the conflict.<\/p>\n

He asks you to experience the worst parts of America\u2019s war in Iraq, andpractically begs<\/em> you to pass judgement. Because he doesn\u2019t want to be alone in judging himself.<\/p>\n

Only the Dead See the End of War<\/i> chronicles Ware\u2019s seven years covering the Iraq war \u2014 first for Time\u00a0<\/i>and then for CNN. Ware arrived in Iraq right before U.S. troops invaded in early 2003. He describes himself as a small-town boy from Australia who didn\u2019t understand what he had signed up for.\u201cI was in my 30’s and still young and dumb enough for war to have its false sense of adventure,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s style is \u2026 strange. This is not the polished image audiences have seen over and over again on cable news. Ware\u2019s footage is raw and ugly. The audio drops in and out. The video is low-res and grainy. More than once, some angry Iraqi interrupts Ware and forces him to stop filming some scene of horror.<\/p>\n

And those scenes of horror are plentiful in Only the Dead See the End of War.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n