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Restrepo

  • 09-10-2010 7:14pm
    #1
    losthorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭


    Released in Ireland this week although so far only been shown in the IFI Dublin and in Belfast this looks like a great insight into the war in Afghanistan. Hopefully in the weeks ahead it will be shown at more nationwide screens to allow those of us who are not Dubs to view it.

    Has anybody seen it?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCPnJaxC17o&feature=related


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  • #2
    emo72
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,341 ✭✭✭emo72


    watched this last night, have to say it was excellent. you are not gonna see reporters embedded on the frontline for a year too often. a fantastic insight into a soldiers life.


  • #3
    Ronan Raver77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭Ronan Raver77


    Yea i saw this in IFI its fantastic:D


  • #4
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    This is one of the greatest war docs done. Was so impressed with it. you could really see the strain on the guys mixed with some tiny bits of humour.

    What really impressed me was the danger the reporter was in a lot of these movies/tv shows yeah its dangerous but even the opening scene where
    the IED explodes under the car he is in
    was the first time i seen something like that before except in clips from news and even then they were 2 second clips not the ahole aftermath too


  • #5
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I've just seen the NY Times: Restrepo co-director Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya today. As far as I can tell, he was there as one of a group of photographers, in the city of Misurata. :(

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #6
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Just finished watching this... Can't say I was blown away tbh!

    About to watch another similar docco called Armadillo... Let's see if that's any better.


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  • #7
    losthorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    bnt wrote: »
    I've just seen the NY Times: Restrepo co-director Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya today. As far as I can tell, he was there as one of a group of photographers, in the city of Misurata. :(

    His last twitter entry was "In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO."

    Qaddafis forces are using cluster bombs outlawed by many countries but made in Spain. Apparently he was Killed though by a Rocket propelled grenade.


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