THE GOOD SOLDIER

A film by Lexy Lovell & Michael Uys
NR, 80min

“A wonderful film. Brilliant.” - Howard Zinn

The Good Soldier is a breakthrough film that speaks to all sides – to the veterans who have been to war, of that awful place to which the journey took them, to the people at home who know nothing of it, to people who have worked for peace all their lives as well as to those who, going as far back as the Civil War, have raised generations of soldiers, to Northerners and Southerners alike, to flag wavers, flag burners, Christians and atheists.  It is an extraordinary film that transcends political lines.  The five men featured stand as totems for different generations and American wars. All are riveting. The simple revelations of their soldier’s hearts, the wetness of their eyes, the emotion of the music that says what they cannot, the pauses and quietness, even the absence of narration pull at the psyche and whisper, “Does it really have to be this way?”