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'Combat Obscura' is a brutally honest look at the blurred morality of the war in Afghanistan
Simkins, J. D. http://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2019/03/15/combat-obscura-is-a-brutally-honest-look-at-the-blurred-morality-of-the-war-in-afghanistan/
Date Written: 15/03/2019
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
A documentary featuring footage from a 2011 deployment in Afghanistan shows the reality of the war.
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Filmed and directed by combat cameraman Miles Lagoze, "Obscura" provides a true illustration of the primal aspects of war. Due to that honest approach, few of the film’s scenes will endear its participants to a public that consumes much of its war information through crisply-edited propaganda emerging from the Pentagon....
Once he got the footage declassified through a Pentagon review process, word of the film wormed its way onto the Marine Corps’ radar....
The end result is, indeed, an all-encompassing enterprise.
The film's true brilliance lies in its situational hysteria, a scene-by-scene unpredictability that serves as a microcosm of a war with no end - and no definitive outcome - in sight.
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