'he was a man who loved Noam Chomsky, opposed the war in Iraq, was a natural leader'

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via MichaelMoore.com:




August 19th, 2010 3:02 PM
"The Tillman Story" Is Heroic Filmmaking

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By Sasha Perl-Raver / NBC Washington


William Tucumseh Sherman once said "War is Hell."

In Amir Bar-Lev's skillfully composed documentary "The Tillman Story," the audience gets to see that war is also wasteful, heartbreaking, ruinous and shrouded in deceit.

The film opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, with a wider release set for Sept. 3.

There are few Americans who managed to escape the tragic tale of Pat Tillman, an NFL star so profoundly moved by the tragedy of 9/11, he walked away from a multimillion-dollar contract with the Arizona Cardinals in May 2002 so he could serve his country. On April 22, 2004, Pat was killed in the line of duty while in Afghanistan. It was a shocking death that whipped the media into a frenzy as each detail of his passing and funeral were documented in exhaustive detail and spun into pro-America propaganda by everyone from the local news to President George W. Bush.

But what managed to evade that microscopic gaze was that Tillman had actually been killed by friendly fire in a series of events typically referred to by the military term: Charlie Foxtrot, aka a clusterf--k.

Told through interviews, news clips, archival footage and Josh Brolin's gravelly voiceover, "The Tillman Story" unravels the harrowing reality of Pat's death, something the military under Bush administration calculatingly covered up in favor of a flag-waving yarn of patriotism that could be used as a party line. ..............(more)

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