tirsdag 28. oktober 2008

The Valley of Elah

This movie shows how the war can change a young soldier, and his family’s life. It gives us a view of what can happen when a body is found chopped up into several pieces, and the police don't have a lot of clues, or evidence. This movie is about a soldier that was brutally murdered and the killer is on the loose, and how his family deals with it. Valley of Elah shows us how a life of an American soldier varies from when he’s serving, after he served and from the family’s point of view, the father in particular. We can easily see that his son changed pretty quickly when he went to Iraq to try to help establishing a democracy there. The short video clips the father gets makes him think that it was something weird in this case, and he was right. The friendship between the soldiers is very strong, but it includes drugs, alcohol and some messed up minds.