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Bookmark this pageOccupation: Dreamland (2005)
Director: Garrett Scott, Ian Olds
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From Time Out New York
For six weeks in 2004, the codirectors followed members of the 82nd Airborne around Fallujah, dogging a small platoon as its soldiers sat around arguing about supermodels or went out on night raids to round up possible insurgents. You'd expect either a liberal antiwar indictment or an embedded backslap for our boys over there, but what emerges is a counterpoint to the myth that all of the armed forces deployed in Iraq consist of brain-dead hicks just out to whup some ass. By giving these often thoughtful soldiers a forum, the duo has made something far chewier than the usual bumper-sticker polemics.Author: DF
Time Out New York website
Cast & crew
Director: Garrett Scott, Ian Olds
Producer: Garrett Scott, Selina Lewis Davidson, Nancy Roth
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 78 mins
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