Released on Blu-Ray this week is Generation Kill, David Simon’s follow-up to The Wire. I bet it looks amazing on Blu-Ray as well. Unfortunately, review copies weren’t available when I was writing this piece so I instead resorted to watching it at work on an illegal video streaming site, having to Alt F4 over to an Excel Spreadsheet every time my boss walked by.
The main thing you realise, watching this ultra-realistic depiction of the opening months of the Iraq War, is just what a mundane experience being a soldier must be. Not really so very different from working down at Baltimore Docks with Frank Sobotka. For the most part we see the Marines of the 1st Recon Battalion sitting around in their jeeps, goofing off and trading in (slightly homophobic) banter.
Mind you, that’s pretty much what I expect Bush, Cheney et al were doing in the Oval Office when they were planning the fucking war. And I bet their gay jokes weren’t anywhere near as funny.
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