Synopsis
Following 9/11, traces of this act of terror are reflected everywhere in American cinema. While most display blatant patriotism by setting and battling an outside enemy, also surfacing are many other films that exhibit extreme anxiety and schizophrenia caused by not knowing the real enemy. To categorize roughly, this film starts as the former but ends as the latter. The US Army is dispatched to Afghanistan shortly after 9/11 to meet Mohamed Ahban, but there is growing distrust toward the mission and fear against the government that has sent them on a clandestine operation that places their lives at risk. Instead of revealing the real enemy, this film shows you the supernatural phenomena that threaten and kill the soldiers and asks, "Do these still look like new weapons to you? Do these look like the real enemy we should go after?"Of course, these questions violently deride the choices of the U.S. following 9/11. As someone said in the movie, the soldiers play CIA's game and die isolated in the middle of a desert, mistaking suicide for sacrifice. (NAM Da Eun)