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Body of War
Published on April 23, 2008
Co-directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahueyes, that Phil DonahueBody of War is neither the most cinematic nor the most elegantly crafted of recent Iraq War documentaries, but that doesnt stop it from being one of the most deeply affecting. Where Spiro and Donahue triumph is in putting a human face on the warnamely, that of U.S. Army Specialist Tomas Young, a patriotic Kansas City youth who was shot through the collarbone and paralyzed from the chest down after less than a week on the ground in Baghdad. Unambiguously angry and direct in an old-fashioned protest-movie way (complete with original, Phil Ochsian anthems composed and performed by Eddie Vedder), Body of War follows Youngs bittersweet homecoming, his adjustment to life in a wheelchair, his conversion into an anti-war activist, and the gradual collapse of his marriage. But the most devastating scenes in the film are arguably Spiro and Donahues found-footage flashbacks to the 2002 debates in both houses of Congress leading up to the authorization of wareerily sound-alike soundbites that turn Body of War into the latest uncredited Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake.
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