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Saw It Today
A lot better than Lions for Lambs
Better than In The Valley of Elah
The soldiers in Iraq are shown trying to survive and do their duty
They are so alienated from the Iraqis that they are all the enemy
It is a short walk from gunning down an unarmed pregnant woman (that was policy, following orders) to raping and killing
The movie is short (~90 minutes) so there would have been time to develop the characters more
The key to the movie is the guy who went out on the rape but tried to stop them and tired to tell the authorities later
That saves the movie
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