This is one of the documentaries nominated for the Oscar, Operation Homecoming does not take political sides on the present war in Iraq. It does allow the soldiers themselves to talk about what they experience, and how they cope.
It is quiet in some ways. Relying on different visuals to add to the words of the soldiers themselves. Never shrill, or preachy, it is moving, and disturbing.
The idea for the film came a project that brought professional writers (themselves participants in wars past) to Iraq to get the soldiers to write about what they have been involved in. The results are a way for the military men to try to find expression for the horror, boredom and terror they feel and see.
While I do not think it should have won the Oscar, it did deserve its nomination.
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