Thousand Yard Stare

I'm the daughter of a veteran who was a tail gunner on B24's in World War II. I'm the niece of two men: one who fought in the Pacific and one in France. The one in France never came home. He was 19. I'm the widow of a submariner who was stationed on a fast attack submarine for 18 months in the early 70's. The Navy helped subsidize a trip to Rome for those of us who could make the trip to meet up with our husbands in Italy. My husband survived the Cold War but later died in a car crash when two young men who couldn't speak English entered the highway going the wrong way. Survivors suffer from PTSD, too. I don't care if you didn't like the movie but honor the men and women who served. So many were killed, wounded or carried the memories and were wounded warriors themselves in one way or another. Honor them or keep your mouth shut.

If you have ptsd, you will relate completely to the protagonist.

Survivors guilt, inability to reconcile the chances that led to survival and descent to dispair.

Inability to connect to loved ones, regular life and suicidal ideation / action.

Is it perfect? No. But those complaining about back and forth...., you are fine then trauma occurs and you relive things. That's why the film is created that way.

Only accepting what happened and confronting it helped.

Watching the journey of the protagonist was excruciating. Particularly when he was going to meet his wife and stopped for a drink.

This wasn't a large budget blockbuster but it does a better job of depicting trauma than most films to date.

This is one of the worst war movies I have ever seen. The battle scenes look like they were done by reenactors, the homefront scenes are stilted and full of stereotypes. The acting is awful and direction terrible. The only reason I gave it 3 stars is that it is trying (badly) to address PTSD.

It's a great approach when you tackle the issues of PTSD. Some cases it's never really discussed, especially in film. I had the opportunity to see this during it's run at the Edmonton International Film Festival in October 2017. I actually used to work with the guys who made this film years ago. They are determined, and very ambitious in their work. I am extremely proud of these guys, and what they have achieved.

Maybe if you are interested in the subject matter you can sit through this film, but I could not. The acting is so horrible and uninspiring. Bland would be the best word to describe every single performance in this film. The script was slow paced and not very well written.

Nothing was good about this film. Again - if you want to watch something about the subject matter it may appeal to you, but it is a terrible film with some of the worse acting every put onto film.