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so this movie basically Stars uh squa
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Martin green I believe that's how you
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pronounce her name and uh Natalie
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Morales uh Sika plays a uh a veteran an
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Afghanistan veteran who uh today is
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struggling through life she's currently
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court-ordered uh support groups for
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veterans of which she uh refuses to
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participate in she just sits there and
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shuts up and um her the person leading
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it the the support group is Morgan
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Freeman and he basically tells her that
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unless she starts talking he can't sign
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off for the court and that she'll wind
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up in jail if she doesn't uh if she
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doesn't participate in the group um so
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her refusal to uh participate leads to a
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phone call she gets from her mother uh
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and that her grandfather who
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uh the grandmother recently died
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grandfather's left alone on this Farm in
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the middle of nowhere uh s was uh is
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supposed to go out and take care of the
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grandfather and subversively sell the
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farm from underneath him um and uh so
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this film is basically about uh veterans
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PTSD and Veterans uh the my dead friend
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zo every so often uh zo will show up as
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a kind of a ghost and they'll have a
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conversation and uh it's just this
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constant reminder of the friendship that
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uh that the two characters have and a
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reminder and and builds up to what
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happened why is zo no longer with us uh
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and of course that kind of leads into
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the overall story um Ed Harris plays the
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grandfather uh she he is a uh he is a
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very proud veteran and uh he is very
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disappointed in his in his granddaughter
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uh because she followed in his footsteps
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and he feels like that she has not lived
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up to uh to his standards and um so it's
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just basically this there's two things
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there's this family Dynamic that's going
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on that's very powerful uh and then
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there's also uh of course the story
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about how veterans are treated today and
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uh and you know the the the story of uh
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zo and how she died um will catch you
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off guard because you think it's going
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one way it goes a different way and then
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brings up a whole other uh a whole other
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situation that that veterans face in you
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know in in battle and so um this is from
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Legion M so it's uh you know they they
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tend to they they may not make the
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greatest blockbuster movies ever but
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they make very powerful and films they
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make Indie movies they make Indie
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movies my B friend zo is is a powerful
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film and uh and I highly recommend it I
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agree it really snuck up on me and and
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also Ed Harris is in this film and plays
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uh her father her grandfather
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grandfather and they're he's are they
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gonna put him in a home you know so she
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has to deal with that Morgan Freeman is
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in it as well as kind of a mentor figure
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um it really did creep up on me the
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Twist that we won't get into but is it
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is about PTSD it is about veterans and
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how they have to deal with it and um I
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was moved by it it's very very
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respectful to it's very respectful to
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people who have served in the military
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so I really enjoyed the film we saw it
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at the Newport Beach film festival and
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um I I I really enjoy it's coming out
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soon I want to say February next year in
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theaters so check it out but this is an
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early review and want to get the word
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out that it's a film worth seeing and in
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particular I I like to support any film
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that that really get you know supports
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our um our our fellow Americans in the
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military is is one I want to point out
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and this one does a great job of that a
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side we don't normally see which is
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dealing with PTSD and um the effects of
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being a survivor of conflict so uh
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strong recommend from me yeah and
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there's this ghost gimmick where she
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speaks to zo all the time Natalie
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Morales and it it it it I think it works
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I think it works uh it could have
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certainly gone off the rails and it
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doesn't um so definitely uh a high
