I ca n’t wait to see Hell and Back Again , the film byour friend Danfung Dennis . Not because it acquire the World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary at Sundance 2011 but because it looks in truth extraordinary
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It also won Sundance ’s World Cinema Cinematography Award . I ’m not surprised . shoot entirely with a Canon 5D Mark II DSLR , the figure quality is recherche . A bleak contrast against the blooming drama and grittiness of the content :
In 2009 , U.S. Marines launched a major helicopter assault on a Taliban fastness in southern Afghanistan . Within hours of being throw away deep behind enemy channel , 25 - year - old Sergeant Nathan Harris ’s unit ( US Marines Echo Company , 2nd Battalion , 8th Marine Regiment ) is snipe from all sides . Cut off and surrounded , the Marines fight a ghostlike enemy and experience vast hostility from displaced villagers caught in the midriff .
embed in Echo Company during the ravishment , photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis captures the frontline action with splanchnic immediacy . When Sergeant Harris returns home to North Carolina after a life - threaten injury in struggle , the film evolves from sensational war reporting to the account of one man ’s personal apocalypse . With the love and reinforcement of his wife , Ashley , Harris struggles to overcome the difficulty of transition back to civilian life .
In immense physical pain , Sergeant Harris grow addicted to his medication . His suffering intensify as he attempts to reconcile the disconnection between his experience of war and the terrific normalcy of life at rest home . The two realities seamlessly intertwine to communicate both the sinful drama of war and , for a generation of soldiers , the no less difficult experience of return abode .
If you require to see it , check thescreening time and places here . [ Hell and Back Again ]
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