Last Friday, we watched another documentary on the Iraq War. Unlike "No End in Sight," the film "Gunner Palace" showed us the Iraq War from the ground up, through the eyes of ordinary soldiers being asked to do
extraordinary things.
In your mind, what was the most surprising aspect of "Gunner Palace?" In other words, what surprised you most about the lives of the soldiers in "Gunner Palace?" Did you gain more respect for the soldiers, or lose the respect you had?
7 comments:
my views are two sided really, in one way I respect the solders a lot more because they are in Iraq knowing the reason they went there in the first place was a lie. In the other sense I understand boredom gets the best of you sometimes but when I heard the one solder fired his rifle into a building for no reason kinda destroyed a bit of respect I had for the whole army.
well it was alot more for what the troop's where going through than what we see on T.V. and it had it's funny parts and very serious parts. all in all i liked it and this is one moive that is going in my list!
For me the most surprising aspect of the film was how much fun they seemed to have at the palace. I already had alot of respect for the soldiers that went in because I realize that they didn't choose to go in Iraq, but just wanting to serve their country.
And by the way he said to have fired his gun accidently.
Ok, so the same day we watched "Gunner Palace" I went home and watched it again. Both times I respected them more and lost alittle. The lost part was due to that fact they looked like they were having more fun than working. But im not in the war so i dont know how they're daily lives are. The gained,was due to them staying in the war all this time and with all the negative things going on in the war they still remain there and dedicated to the country.
i didnt lose any respect for them at all. i gained alot though, because even though they werew sent into a war they knew nothing about, and were lied to many times, they made the best of what they had. who cares about an accidental shoot, i mean come on.
My view is exactly the same. I already knew the things the soldiers are being faced with and the luxuries they are afforded, even if I didn't know about bombed-out palaces.
The thing that suprised me the most about "Gunner palace" was the random fashion of combat. It seemed like we are just driving around in tanks waiting to get shot at. It resembled what I think Urban Warefar would look like in a US city. I deffinately have a greater respect for the difficult and deadly jobs our soldiers are doing there, and despite the cloudy reasons our government had for going to Iraq; our soldiers seemed commited to fixing Iraq. Ultimately success will be up to Iraq's government, but I feel that together with we've made so much progress building schools, homes, holding elections and rebuilding a country from scratch, that to give up on that now would be wasteful and cruel to the people there.
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