| Deeply moving
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Starkly eloquent - New York Times Shocking and affecting - Village Voice |
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“An astounding film, The Good Soldier directed by Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys should be mandatory viewing for every President and member of Congress who is willing to make the decision to send men and women into war. In a culture where many veterans do not speak back home of what they witnessed and participated in battle, this film portrays five combat veterans from different wars ranging from WWII to Vietnam to the Gulf War to Iraq who emotionally lay it on the line. The sheer humanity of such inhumane situations is astounding and riveting and heartbreaking. The courage it takes for these soldiers to speak of their darkest moments and moral dilemmas with such brutal honesty is to be commended and brings up questions of our government supporting those they would send to die who did not die but came home.” - Heather Buchanan HipHamptons.com |
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“…a wonderful film...with great emotional power. It was a brilliant idea to hear veterans of the various wars – World War II, Vietnam, the first Gulf War, the Iraq War – because the net effect is to deal, not just with one odious war, but with the phenomenon of war as a universal evil. It is especially important, if we are to ditch forever the idea of ‘good’ wars, to tackle head on the war which is generally considered morally unassailable – World War II.” - Howard Zinn author of A People's History of the United States |
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“It’s hard to imagine watching a more affecting movie than The Good Soldier…it may be as affecting a movie as I’ve ever seen. I found it both hard to watch and hard to turn away from. Really powerful stuff.” - Jason Albert theOnion.com |
| “This is one incendiary movie. When you turn somebody into a well-trained killer, how do you turn off the killer part of their personality? That’s the question asked by Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys in their clear-eyed, heartbreaking documentary. Employing the experiences of veterans several American wars, The Good Soldier is implicitly anti-war, but not didactically so. At heart, it’s a rueful acknowledgement that when you put young men in stressful, violent situations, they’re not always going to behave according to the Geneva Convention.”
- Robert W. Butler, Kansas City Star |
| “Skilllfully interweaving the stories of five different servicemen from four different conflicts, The Good Soldier is a surprisingly nondoctrinaire docu about anti-war veterans that marches to its own drummer. Never marshaling testimonies into an overarching exposition, filmmakers Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys (helmers of the compelling Riding the Rails) explore a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and attitudes, while a veritable sea of archival footage, spanning 60 years, underlines the inescapable sameness of a soldier's singular objective: to kill other human beings.”
- Ronnie Scheib, Variety |
| “Five generations of battle-tried (but unbroken) men who wore the uniform as valiant patriots and suffered a painful deliverance from innocence are front and center in The Good Soldier. Their wars differ but their tales are eerily identical. Their material is arresting, with troves of detailed memories pouring out for the first time.”
- Matthew Nestel, Box Office Magazine |
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