Check it out and let me know what you guys think? I have yet to see the show, and I really don’t know how we will be depicted in this thing. I tend to not have much faith in today’s film industries out there, when it comes to presenting this industry in film. But you never know, and I will wait and see….-Matt
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Television Review | ‘Occupation’
Knocked Around by the Winds of War
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
October 16, 2009
War movies focus on friendship because it’s the one steadfast reward of combat and perhaps the only consolation.
“Occupation,” a British look at the Iraq war on BBC America on Sunday, is one of the best television depictions yet of that conflict, and it isn’t even a straightforward war story. Nor, despite its title, is it exactly a tale of foreign occupation, though “Occupation” does take a long, disturbing look at the chaos, corruption and mayhem that choked the American-led reconstruction effort.
Mostly the film follows three British soldiers who fought together in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and then, for three entirely different reasons, keep returning there over the course of several years. And in that time soldiers, contractors, engineers, doctors and government officials — and billions of dollars in vacuum-sealed packs — are pinned down by an insurgency their leaders failed to anticipate.