Mark (Colin Farrell) and David (Jim Sives) are war photographers working in Kurdistan during their war against Iraq (1988?). They are long time friends. David's wife (Kelly Reilly) is expecting. During the photographing, David loses his stomach for the war zone and decides to turn back while Mark keeps on working on his Pulitzer. Mark gets badly injured and manages to limp home after being in a Kurdish field hospital for a few days, one where the doctor has limited resources and regularly performs mercy killings. When Mark arrives home, David who left before him isn't there and Mark is acting strange, a case of PTSD.
Christopher Lee, feigning a Spanish accent acts as a psychologist to get to the truth, one that most viewers should have already figured out.
Having never been in a war zone, or know anyone who has PTSD, I couldn't relate to the movie as well as someone in that situation. For them, I am sure this film has more meaning. I found the film to be slow moving. Christopher Lee and Colin Farrell were not convincing in their roles. I didn't like the constant crying piano sound track. I don't feel the film really deals with PTSD, but rather exploits it to create a mediocre film. Unless you want to watch a film that deals specifically with PTSD, I would suggest something else.
F-bomb, groping, nudity (Colin Farrell)
Christopher Lee, feigning a Spanish accent acts as a psychologist to get to the truth, one that most viewers should have already figured out.
Having never been in a war zone, or know anyone who has PTSD, I couldn't relate to the movie as well as someone in that situation. For them, I am sure this film has more meaning. I found the film to be slow moving. Christopher Lee and Colin Farrell were not convincing in their roles. I didn't like the constant crying piano sound track. I don't feel the film really deals with PTSD, but rather exploits it to create a mediocre film. Unless you want to watch a film that deals specifically with PTSD, I would suggest something else.
F-bomb, groping, nudity (Colin Farrell)