Armadillo Page #5

Synopsis: In February of 2009, a group of Danish soldiers accompanied by documentarian Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cinematographer Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometre from Taliban positions. The result of their work is a gripping and highly authentic war drama that was justly awarded the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at the 2010 Cannes film festival. But it also provoked furious debate in Denmark concerning the controversial behavior of certain Danish soldiers during a shoot-out with Taliban fighters. The film-makers repeatedly risked their lives shooting this tense, brilliantly edited, and visually sophisticated probe into the psychology of young men in the midst of a senseless war whose victims are primarily local villagers. Yet more disturbing than scenes in which Taliban bullets whiz past their cameras is the footage of the young soldiers as each tries
Genre: Documentary, War
Director(s): Janus Metz
Production: New Yorker
  10 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
NOT RATED
Year:
2010
105 min
$10,347
Website
86 Views


But this is also part of it.

It's not all fighting.

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Right, we're also here

to help these poor people.

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It's like going to the fun fair

without trying the rollercoasters.

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Alright, let's start the debriefing.

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The patrol itself. How did it go?

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Individual skills really sucked.

Seriously.

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How many fell to their knees

on short stops?

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So, eight men out of 50.

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Do we agree that

this has to be improved?

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Get into the habit now.

Get your fat ass down on its knees -

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- because at some point

if you don't, then pow!

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So kneel, damn it!

Right. Anything else?

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I think I ought to say what I got out

of this patrol. And it wasn't a lot.

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Remember this is an agricultural area.

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The peasants have just sown their

wheat. And we're ploughing it down.

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I could only say that our security out

there was to trample their fields down.

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Nothing's happening out there yet.

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The good old classic. The coolest

thing about porn is the story line.

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I'd like doctors like that,

if I go to hospital.

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Strangely enough it helped him!

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It's weird, don't you think?

You volunteer to sleep on a tiny cot -

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- and eat crap food for six months.

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- I know there's more to it.

- I'm doing it for the team spirit.

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- Team spirit and adventure.

- Yeah.

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- How do your parents feel about it?

- They're not overjoyed.

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My parents were like:

"Don't go on missions." -

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So I decided to go to Kosovo,

and on my first day at the garrison -

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- I still thought

I was going to Kosovo.

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But at the meeting we were told

that Kosovo wasn't an option.

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Here it's all 'Afghan'.

I called my mother afterwards -

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- and told her I was going

to Afghanistan after all.

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