Restrepo, is a movie and documentary, about a platoon of United States Soldiers that fought in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan. The outpost named Restrepo after a soldier that fought and died in action is the focus of the movie. Restrepo was home to 13 soldiers.
I am a very big movie fan, I will watch most movies and get lost in them as if to be sucked into that world for however long the film is. However, war movies tend to be very different from what a real war is like for entertainment purposes. Even though a lot of war movies are based on true stories there tends to be a lot of factual inconstancies. However, Restrepo is a film that puts those that watch the film into a real battle field with real soldiers. The only thing hollywood about this movie is that the director cut down the material to make it into an hour and a half movie and also some music in the background for dramatic effect. The director himself said that the sole purpose of this movie is to show what war really is.
This movie really taught me a lot about what real war is like and how war in the movies in not exactly how it happens in real life. War is a lot of waiting around and boredom, and living in constant fear that when you are sleeping something will happen. This movie really shows how stressful war is, unlike in the rest of the movies that make it seem like once the fighting is over or when the characters go to sleep nothing will happen until they are ready again.
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