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Combat Obscura

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Former combat videographer Miles Lagoze presents personal footage of U.S. Marines in the Afghan war zone.
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Peter Rainer FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles) It's sort of an eye-opener just to see something this unbiased and un-manipulative. Sep 23, 2019 Full Review Jonathan Romney Film Comment Magazine This remarkable film comes across as war's backstage story-it's about the stuff they leave out of the official coverage. Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Andrew Whalen Newsweek Depicts the war beneath the narratives, capturing the soldier's experience with an immediacy that explodes political abstraction, placing it in a more humanist context. Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Chris Barsanti PopMatters [in this] jangled, jarring Afghan War documentary, a Marine Corps cameraman shows the flippant cynicism of combat in ways the military would rather we not think about. Rated: 8/10 Apr 2, 2019 Full Review Cole Henry Nonfics It shows that war is never, ever kind. There is no victory in most victories, and defeat is always near. Yet, the film finds the time to show how humanity can bloom on the battlefield, or maybe it was always there and we've just never had it shown to us. Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Gary Garrison The Playlist While some films edge closer to the ghastly reality, and others capture the tedium, none seem to embody the stark duality as "Combat Obscura" so fully. Rated: B Mar 17, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member An unfiltered and unbiased glimpse into modern U.S. warfare. Brilliantly edited footage definitely not approved by the U.S. military that serves as a work of art as much as it is a brutal and unapologetic look into the absurdity of war. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member A bunch of nitwits who signed up on by choice, complain about the situation they find themselves in, and then, no surprise, blame anyone but themselves for what their experience. In the meantime, they treat human beings, kids even, as pieces of dirt all while putting their fellow colleagues at risk. Talk about victim culture. I wonder if any of these blowhards will ever grow up. Yeah, you got shot through you're cliche bulldog tattoo and got a bullet lodged in your jaw? I guess that makes up for you not having the balls to figure out how to do something productive with your life instead of going overseas and beating up 6 year old kids just living in their own country. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member This documentary deserves it's five stars. In the interview with Miles in the DVD he says he didn't want it to be like other documentaries were you were soon fed A B and C. Miles asked his fellow Marines and the family of the one if it was ok to publish this. Miles is simply honoring the peoples time he served with. Whether good or bad. We need more films like this to accurately display what going to war really means. Not the propoganda we digest through most media. Miles witnessed, he documented. Miles pieced this together, and it's a masterpiece Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member this film is great for someone who wants to have an idea of what deployment in a war zone is like. Great film for that purpose! very interpersonally documentary type of movie. Basically, first person type of documentary. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member The stark realities of war; no big FOBs, no air conditioned chow halls... just gritty accurate depiction of the Marines and Corpsmen grinding it out, day in and day out. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Going to watch it again tonight, Shit was real Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Former combat videographer Miles Lagoze presents personal footage of U.S. Marines in the Afghan war zone.
Director
Miles Lagoze
Producer
Miles Lagoze, Eric Schuman
Distributor
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 15, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 15, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA)
$10.1K
Runtime
1h 10m
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