Beaufort
Director: Joseph Cedar
Year Released: 2007
Rating: 2.0
Israeli soldiers brood inside a compound in Southern Lebanon where they're routinely attacked by missiles from a completely unseen foreign force (Hezbollah) and don't fight back. Details are nonexistent about the politics of the occupation and very little is revealed about the inner lives of the soldiers except that they're tired and worn out: the minute the movie investigates a few select men a little more in depth (one soldier lost his uncle at Beaufort in 1982, one soldier has a girlfriend in New Jersey, one soldier plays piano and can sing), it more or less spells their doom. I think it's hollow and unsatisfying, but my Father (a veteran and student of military history) read the book, saw the movie and values both as valid depictions of the everyday lives of soldiers, so perhaps people who have served will find more in this than I.
