'The Tillman Story' hits with force

[marmar]

The Tillman Story' hits with force

By KENNETH TURAN
Los Angeles Times


"The Tillman Story" is a story that won't go away, won't leave you alone, won't let you feel at ease. Intensely dramatic, filled with elevated heroism, crass self-interest and blatant stupidity, it's a paradigmatic narrative of our tendentious, turbulent times.

It's also a mark of how remarkable the tale of Pat Tillman is that no amount of retellings of its sequence of events - how an NFL star turned Army Ranger turned Afghan war casualty turned unwilling and untrue national symbol - can wear out the story's power or dilute its essential mystery. Too awful and too significant to fade from view, the actions contain everything that's right about this country as well as many of the things that are wrong.

So even though Amir Bar-Lev's documentary follows in the footsteps of two excellent books, one by Tillman's mother, Mary Tillman, and one from Jon Krakauer, as well as a lengthy Sports Illustrated profile by Gary Smith, it is well worth everyone's time on its own.

Compelling, compassionate and terribly moving, "The Tillman Story" will make you angry as well as sad. Even if you know what happened in broad outline, the specifics are shocking, and being able to actually see the principals and watch as the layers get peeled away like an onion is frankly devastating.

The first surprise of "The Tillman Story" is the character of Patrick Daniel Tillman himself, a man who, as a friend says, is definitely not the "meat-head jock" people might be expecting when they first hear his name.

The complete piece is at: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/19/2161254/the-tillman-story-hits-with-force.html#ixzz0x5iAdBg4

[Ignis]

1. K&R

What a waste. :(

[autorank]

2. Tillman's father to the Army k*r

This link has a pdf of a devastating letter sent to the army by Patrick K. Tillman.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/12/pat-tillmans-father-to-ar_n_680128.html

It's a scorcher, truly.

The review of the Tillman documentary missed some of the scandalous features.

The film was rated "R" to keep the lid on, imho and in the opinion of the producers.

The cover ups never end.

[malaise]

8. And don't expect Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al

to have the guts to admit that they lied. They invented the text for their wars.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. I worry that this film will not get any play

I doubt any movie chains will show it let alone the major networks, maybe HBO or some other premium pay channel.

Let's hope that they have a good distributor. I remember when F-911 came out I could only see it 40 miles away at a Art/independent movie theater only much later on did any chains pick it up in limited showings.

[DailyGrind51]

4. I hope that PBS' "Frontline" picks it up eventually!

[marmar]

5. If you live near a theater in the art-house Landmark chain, looks like they're picking it up:

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Films/films_frameset.asp?id=90442



Now Playing At:

* Los Angeles
* The Landmark

* New York
* Sunshine Cinema



Coming Soon To:

* Boston
* Embassy Cinema
* Kendall Square Cinema

* Detroit
* Main Art Theatre

* Seattle
* Varsity Theatre

* St. Louis
* Tivoli Theatre

* WashingtonDC
* E Street Cinema

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. I hope to see it on line soon

Don't ask me how....LOL


But it really needs to be 'mainstream' in the 'heart' lands to get the American people to wake up to the propaganda they have been digesting all these years.

I'm glad landmark picked it up early
hopefully Showtime and HBO will pick it up also..

[SpiralHawk]

6. Republicon Chickenhawks cringe in fear as truth hits movie theaters

As well they should...After systematically lying and totally trashing this honorable American soldier, his family, and the American public. As usual.

[DailyGrind51]

7. Remember how they piled on "Fahrenheit 9/11" and Michael Moore?

[SpiralHawk]

9. Oh yes. Republicons have big problems with truth getting out

as they repeatedly demonstrate.

[midnight]

11. Another way to describe this war, "crass self-interest".

There seems to be no example of any good from the ruin of family after family who gets any where near this hell hole. But now that Afganistan has billions or trillions in resources that are needed for making things, I guess we need to protect America and the world from the evil 100 people in that country with hundreds of thousands of troops.

The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan

An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html



Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, declined to say how many additional troops would be deployed, but senior administration officials previously have said that about 30,000 will go in coming months, bringing the total American force to about 100,000.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/world/asia/01orders.html?_r=1