You can't be a good soldier in a bad war
The Beast review
By
Jean Atkins from Cumbria
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19th January 2004
Wars are led by psychopaths, but fuelled by ordinary people whose finer feelings are suppressed. This tale of war set in Afghanistan (actually filmed in Israel) could have its setting in any of the late twentieth century/early 21st century war theatres. It is brutal, ugly, and portrays well, how the futility of invading a barren, hostile land and killing people who are little more than peasants, gets lost in a welter of small, dehumanising, vicious skirmishes. It's worth seeing for the tiny glimpses of human dignity and the glimmering of honour on both sides of the war.
