
The warriors in Of Men and War have come home to the United States, but their minds remain on the battlefield. Anger consumes them long after their return from the front. Like figures from a Greek tragedy, all have traumatic memories that haunt them to this day. At The Pathway Home, a first-of-its-kind PTSD therapy center, the film's subjects resolve to end the ongoing destruction of their wellbeing. Their therapist, who is also a Vietnam Vet, helps the young men forge meanin... (Full plot summary below)
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The warriors in Of Men and War have come home to the United States, but their minds remain on the battlefield. Anger consumes them long after their return from the front. Like figures from a Greek tragedy, all have traumatic memories that haunt them to this day. At The Pathway Home, a first-of-its-kind PTSD therapy center, the film's subjects resolve to end the ongoing destruction of their wellbeing. Their therapist, who is also a Vietnam Vet, helps the young men forge meaning from their trauma. Over years of therapy, the film explores their grueling paths to recovery, as they attempt to make peace with their past, their families and themselves.
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| PopMattersCynthia FuchsFor all the individual horrors it documents, Of Men and War... is organized as a collective experience, following multiple, mostly unnamed veterans as they share in group or in pairs, expressing rage and fear, frustration, and small pleasures. |
| 4:3Conor BatemanBécue-Renard shows the Pathway Home not as a means through which to forget wartime experiences, but to engage with the memory of them. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA hard-hitting documentary which zeroes in on the harrowing experiences of veterans and their families as they struggle to reclaim their lives. |
| NonficsDaniel WalberOf Men and War refuses to mask or simplify the harsh realities of PTSD. This stubbornness, an insistence that the roughness of war be taken seriously, makes the film an essential document of 21st century American conflict. |
| User ReviewWim HI hope those old men who send young men to war, also have the guts to watch this documentary and see the results of their 'brave, patriotic decisions'. |