"Taking Chance"
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Portraying Marine Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, Kevin Bacon escorts a slain Marine home to Wyoming to be buried by his family. The film is stirring and faithful to the people it focuses on through minimized dialogue (making it remarkably brief, demanding perhaps more detail) and effective cinematography, especially adept in showing the level of effort and detail people in the military take to render honors and respect to their fallen comrades.
Along his journey escorting PFC Chance Phelps home, Lt. Col Strobl interacts with a great many Americans who already know of or soon realize his singular duty. Their parts are exceptionally played and make the movie so effective because they portray what many a veteran of this generation has come to realize. That is, we know the overwhelming majority of Americans from all walks of life treat the military with respect and grace. This is not the 1960's/1970's all over again. May those days never return for the vitriol and hatred targeted at ordinary men and women serving their country as best they can.
"Taking Chance" shows how we have moved on as a country from those days and is well-worth your viewing time.
