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Journalists Evan Hill and Jack Crosbie review the cinematic canon of the Global War on Terror in search of the defining post-9/11 movie.
The boys are joined by writer Séamus Malekafzali, who's too young to remember 9/11 but old enough to stand face-to-face with director Peter Berg and challenge him to a blinking contest. Séamus, Evan and Jack take on Lone Survivor, Berg's 2013 sufferpalooza, which heavily fictionalizes a real-life and extremely unsuccessful Navy SEAL counterterrorism raid in Afghanistan in 2005. The boys examine Berg's Americana fetish, how the Friday Night Lights creator valorizes combat as a form of extreme sports, and the way Lone Survivor — like many a GWOT film — lies about what happened to create false stakes for its characters.
Schlock and Awe
Journalists Evan Hill and Jack Crosbie review the cinematic canon of the Global War on Terror in search of the defining post-9/11 movie.
