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Korengal

Posted on December 22, 2014November 7, 2022 by Village Vidiot

“Korengal,” December 20/22, 2014, DVD.  Sebastian Junger’s sequel documentary look at the troops he stayed with in Afghanistan’s Korengal valley. It focuses on the dynamic of men bonded and the experience of combat and war in their lives. As Junger notes in an attached TED talk, and as I think the film makes clear on its own, this is very much about the creation of a sense of both brotherhood and the intensity of combat. It’s a very interesting film, although it also speaks to the motives of the mission, as articulated by the company commander, without critique or comment. For most of the soldiers involved, the mission is entirely connected to the relationship between themselves and their brothers.

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