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Full Battle Rattle
Tony Gerber, Jesse Moss 2008
Categories: International Spectrum
Run time: 94 min. | USA | Language: English
Welcome to Medina Wasl, a mock village at the U.S. Army's Iraq simulation training facility in California's Mojave Desert. Here, American soldiers fresh from service in Iraq are cast as insurgents, while real Iraqi exiles play civilians. Tension between soldiers and Iraqi role players, many recent immigrants, hangs thick in the air. Gunfire, explosions, night attacks and ambushes are skillfully scripted to reflect possible battle scenarios on the all-too-real frontlines. Bloodied dummies stand in for collateral damage. Death scenes and memorial services are simulated to enhance the soldiers' training. Filmmakers Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss offer a startling look at this most unusual "theatre of war" and the effects on its "actors." Full Battle Rattle moves from comic to surreal to poignant, and provides a dead-on allegory for 21st-century war and the play between make-believe and machismo that defines the American war machine.
-Angie Driscoll
2 pictures Pictures
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9:30 PM     Tue, Apr 22 Alliance Cumberland Cinemas  
4:30 PM     Fri, Apr 25 ROM    
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Cast & Crew
director
Tony Gerber, Jesse Moss
 
producer
Jesse Moss
Tony Gerber
composer
Paul Brill
cinematographer
Jesse Moss
Tony Gerber
editor
Alex Hall, Pax Wasermann
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miltonv
5:49 AM
User Thumbnail Film spends too much time trying to get us to believe an unbelievable re-creation/re-enactiment/simulation of the war in Iraq ... in between shallow interviews with some of the participants ... the silly action/acting scenes take away from the power of the incomplete stories of the participants ... an opportunity lost ... one of the directors spoke eloquently about what he was intending to show ... "The 2-week simulation was forgotten the day after it was completed ... it only took away a bit of their anxiety" ... but the film didn't show what he intended, it seemed to me.
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