With the massacre at Fort Hood and reports that President Obama is
about to approve the sending of 40,000 additional troops to
Afghanistan, “The Good Soldier” arrives at movie theaters in the
nick of time. What is needed desperately right now is a shot in
the arm for the antiwar movement and this deeply moving
documentary about the conversion of five soldiers to the cause of
peace supplies it in spades.
It opens tomorrow at the Village East Theater in NYC tomorrow and
elsewhere around the country soon thereafter. Check
http://www.thegoodsoldier.com/ for screening information.
Covering some of the same territory as the 2006 “The Ground
Truth”, including one of its principals—the remarkable Marine
Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey, “The Good Soldier” is distinguished
by its ability to evoke the often painful stories out of the five
veterans to maximum effect. While not quite dealing with the same
subject matter of Ford Maddox Ford’s 1915 novel with which it
shares its title, this documentary directed by the wife and
husband Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys could have begun with the same
words that open Ford’s novel: “This is the saddest story I have
ever heard.” Unlike the Ford novel, however, this story ends
happily as the five soldiers unburden themselves from their guilt
and join the antiwar movement as an act of salvation both for them
and for humanity.
full review:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/the-good-soldier/
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