War Tapes

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War Tapes

"War Tapes" is a 90-minute documentary film. It is cinema verite, composed by three US soldiers in Iraq, and directed, via SMS messages, by Deborah Scranton. Deborah Scranton, the director, knows these soldiers. who returned to the USA in February 2005. Her intention in directing the film was to create a first-hand account off the story or war in Iraq, without her own presence or her own judgments interfering in that risky business of war.

All three of these soldiers are patriots, and proud to be so. The first one is a refugee from Lebanon. He speaks Arabic. He volunteered for military duty in Bosnia, Kosovo, and now Iraq.

He has a philosophy, an agenda: If you are a soldier there is no place for fear. Every soldier wants combat, just like a football player... Iraq, here we come! Life will never be the same. War is not a problem for a soldier, but the fact that he cannot choose his war.

He is not emotional like me, wails his mother, seeing her son after eleven months, alive. He does not want me to be emotional. My baby was in the worst place in the world, but it seems that being a soldier makes him a man.

Is she buying his philosophy, or just coping with it?

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