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This film has left a scar on my soul. I will remember Tommy Lee Jones 's performance as a reference of what America is feeling about the loss of our soldiers in Iraq and what we have asked of them. What have we done (www.amazon.com....28-3423252)
This movie was outstanding. It portrays the negative sides of war that exist way beyond the battlefield. The acting was flawless , Tommy Lee Jones was superb. Read mor (www.amazon.com....28-3423252)
This movie was outstanding. It portrays the negative sides of war that exist way beyond the battlefield. The acting was flawless , Tommy Lee Jones was superb. Read more (www.amazon.com....74-7883328)
This film has left a scar on my soul. I will remember Tommy Lee Jones 's performance as a reference of what America is feeling about the loss of our soldiers in Iraq and what we have asked of them. What have we done? (www.amazon.com....74-7883328)
This movie was outstanding. It portrays the negative sides of war that exist way beyond the battlefield. The acting was flawless , Tommy Lee Jones was superb. Read more (www.amazon.com....74-7883328)
In career Army officer Hank Deerfield's worldview, the American military exists to bring order to the world, and honor and dignity to every one of its soldiers. As played by Tommy Lee Jones , in a layered performance that will haunt the viewer long after the film is over, Deerfield wears the Army life like he does his standard-issue white T-shirts-unconsciously making a cheap motel bed with crisp inspection-ready corners. Yet if war is hell, the purgatory for the relatives of damaged soldiers can cause far more anguish, and Paul Haggis ' quietly devastating In the Valley of Elah tells this story through Deerfield, who is desperately trying to piece together the fate of his adored son Mike, a soldier in Iraq (www.amazon.com....28-3423252)
Tommy Lee Jones , as Hank Deerfield, plays this role as it was meant to be. He is gruff, polished, a former MP in the Army, and his love for duty, honor and his country and an upright sense of right and wrong is a sign of his exrtreme faith. He makes his motel bed each morning with tight military edges. During the course of the film, one can see his face sag and his wrinkles deepen and his torment is written on his face for all to see. There is no make-up that can etch that misery , it came from within and that, my friend, is a sign of an accomplished thespian. Hank has been told that his son, Mike, an Army Specialist, returned from Iraq only two days is AWOL. No one knows where he is or what happened to him. After a few days, Hank gets into his truck, drives to the Army barracks in the south where his son was stationed and begins an investigation himself. He meets his son's Army buddies, and the stonewall that the Army has erected (www.amazon.com....28-3423252)
Tommy Lee Jones stars in a well-deserved Oscar nominated role as Mike's father, Hank Deerfield, a Vietnam veteran and the head of a military family whose two sons have enlisted in war. The eldest son died in combat, and Mike, the younger son volunteered for Iraq, but uncharacteristically did not let his folks know about his absence from the base. Hank, who gets a call about the prospect of his son going AWOL, goes to the military base, a two-day's drive from his Murso, TN home, to investigate. First he starts at the base; then, he asks the civilian police to take over the case, believing they would be more able to find his son than the military woul (www.amazon.com....28-3423252)
Tommy Lee Jones may be the underdog to Daniel Day-Lewis's performance in 'There Will Be Blood,' but his understated vitality gives a real scope to a character we'd find recognizable in the real world. He's the center, of course, but the film is graced by the likes of Susan Sarandon (as his wife, Joan), Charlize Theron , Josh Brolin , Jason Patric , and James Franco (who delivers himself naturally in a small role) and make the procedural as real as they come. Just like 'Zodiac' and 'Gone Baby Gone' from 2007, 'In the Valley of Elah' makes an investigation of extraordinary events palpable with very human performances (www.amazon.com....28-3423252)
Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones ) has served in the military and encouraged both his sons to serve their country (much against the emotional reaction of his wife Joan Susan Sarandon ): his older son is killed in a helicopter crash and his younger son, recently returned from a year's duty in Iraq, is reported as missing . Hank drives to the base where his son was stationed, learns of his son's death 'by friendly fire' at home, and tries t enlist the help of the military to investigate the affair without success. He encounters a sullen police detective Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron ) who appears bruised by life in general and by her prejudiced co-workers and military men in particular. Gradually Emily sides with the grieving Hank to explore the horrid details of Hank's son's brutal murder , dismemberment and burning. Despite endless barriers of red tape and military secrecy lead by Lt. Kirklander (Jason Patric ) both Emily and Hank slowly piece together the truth, using email videos Hank's son had sent him from Iraq, interviews with Hank's son's fellow soldiers, and examination of the body parts of Hank's so (www.amazon.com....74-7883328)
Tommy Lee Jones gives the most subtle performance of his fine career as the grieving yet stoic Hank. Charlize Theron once again proves that she can disappear into a demanding role like few other actresses. Susan Sarandon , Jason Patric , James Franco (in a tiny but pivotal role), Josh Brolin , Frances Fisher (in a cameo that is very impressive), and all the young men who play the soldiers involved in the investigation are superb. The film pulls no punches, yet it also refrains from sensationalizing events as though Haggis realized that the truth was viciously cruel enough without embellishment. Special mention should be paid to the fine musical score by Mark Isham, a pulsating, minimalist background that heightens the effect of the film. This may be a difficult film to watch but it is a necessary experience if we are to constantly re-evaluate our philosophy of war and intervention. Grady Harp, February 08 (www.amazon.com....74-7883328)
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