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I have only seen the trailer for this movie but it looked like a harrowing war film and a fair treatment of the difficulties faced by the main character after coming home. I see that the right sees this movie as justification like they saw "Zero Dark Thirty" even though that movie actually was a complete refutation of torture.
For reference please see Things NOT to say when seeing 'The Passion of the Christ' from 2004.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=818212
"With a guy like this how did we lose that war?"
"Hold it, those aren't snipes he's shooting THOSE ARE PEOPLE!"
"I heard the director is some crazy old coot who talks to empty chairs"
"You should see what happens to this guy when he goes to Vegas with his friends"
"Soooo he couldn't find WMD either?"
"Yeah it was worth it. The price I paid for the ticket not what these guys went through of course not"
"Do you think he pops a cap on that childlike savage who picks up the RPG?"
"Turns out we were looking for Bin Laden in COMPLETELY the wrong country"
"Why doesn't he just shoot at the ground and get rich like Jed Clampett?"
" I feel like I am watching a dream of George Zimmerman's"