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Synopsis: Mark and David are best friends, photo journalists going from war to war. In the spring of 1988, they're in Kurdistan, at an isolated mountain clinic, waiting for an offensive. David's had enough - he wants to go home to Dublin to his pregnant wife. He leaves, with Mark promising to follow in a few days. A week or so later, Mark's home after being wounded, but David's not been heard from. Mark's slow recovery and uncharacteristic behavior alarm his girlfriend, Elena, who asks her grandfather, a Spanish psychologist, to come to Dublin to help. Are there things the carefree and detached journalist is bottling up? Is he a casualty of war?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Director(s): Danis Tanovic
Production: NEM
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.5
R
Year:
2009
99 min
136 Views


Oh, here we go.

Your entire menu looks like

it was made in a f***ing war zone.

And by the way,

that's what your kid's

going to be eating

for the rest of his life

if we don't bring back

some decent pictures.

You're worse than a pit bull.

Do you know that?

Has anyone ever managed

to say no to you?

Let's say we hope

for a war in France.

Nice food, close to home.

The only thing is, knowing the French

it'd be over in less than a week.

After this, I switch

to fashion photography.

Two more days, then.

But no more.

And if they come back tomorrow

and say "Just another..."

Then we go. No questions asked.

Absolutely.

Okay.

Good man, fair play.

I cannot believe

I've been talked into it again.

Mark!

Where the f*** are you going?

[In Kurdish]

Cease fire!

What's happened?

- We go!

- Go base?

No base.

No, we're going Iraq.

- Iraqi fort?

- Yes. We go.

You all right?

What was all that about?!

I can't do this anymore, man.

There's been a change in plans.

They're not going back to base,

they're going to hit the Iraqi fort.

What?

They're gonna go up there

in the truck.

- The Iraqis'll think it's a convoy...

- What, we going? No, no, no.

Look, David! We've no choice, man!

We're along for the ride, remember?

Along for the f***ing ride?!

What are you saying?

Listen to yourself!

It's another day, then another day,

then another day,

and I can't do it!

I'm going home, man!

David.

What the f*** are you gonna do,

walk home?!

It's 20 f***ing miles back to base!

Just don't get it, do you?

I don't care.

- David!

- I'm going home.

F***! David!

Mr. Walsh, are you coming?

Mr. Walsh?

They found you down by the river.

Do you remember that?

He says you can't walk.

Is that so?

Not sure. I, um, just woke up.

Does it hurt?

- So you can feel it?

- Yeah.

No pain?

Can you move your arms?

Your legs?

Very good.

A head wound as well?

Flesh wound.

Maybe concussion,

but no skull fracture.

Kurdistan is not a good place

for skull fracture.

Well...

You took quite a jolt,

but you're not paralyzed.

And it seems

there are no broken bones.

Legs will be the biggest problem.

That's always the case.

Legs, legs, legs...

For every arm

I've amputated up here,

I've probably taken 10 legs.

Strange, isn't it?

Human legs are just not designed

for modern war.

Take it easy. Get some rest.

You have some neural disruption

but, Inshallah, it's only temporary.

You're going to be right.

How do you feel?

Geez.

Scared me.

Better.

Only a little bit of pain.

Excellent. Pain is always

preferable to numbness.

You were lucky, Mr. Walsh.

Really lucky.

If there'd been any complications...

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