Armadillo Page #3

Synopsis: In February of 2009, a group of Danish soldiers accompanied by documentarian Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cinematographer Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometre from Taliban positions. The result of their work is a gripping and highly authentic war drama that was justly awarded the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at the 2010 Cannes film festival. But it also provoked furious debate in Denmark concerning the controversial behavior of certain Danish soldiers during a shoot-out with Taliban fighters. The film-makers repeatedly risked their lives shooting this tense, brilliantly edited, and visually sophisticated probe into the psychology of young men in the midst of a senseless war whose victims are primarily local villagers. Yet more disturbing than scenes in which Taliban bullets whiz past their cameras is the footage of the young soldiers as each tries
Genre: Documentary, War
Director(s): Janus Metz
Production: New Yorker
  10 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
NOT RATED
Year:
2010
105 min
$10,347
Website
91 Views


How many fell to their knees

on short stops?

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So, eight men out of 50.

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Do we agree that

this has to be improved?

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Get into the habit now.

Get your fat ass down on its knees -

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- because at some point

if you don't, then pow!

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So kneel, damn it!

Right. Anything else?

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I think I ought to say what I got out

of this patrol. And it wasn't a lot.

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Remember this is an agricultural area.

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The peasants have just sown their

wheat. And we're ploughing it down.

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I could only say that our security out

there was to trample their fields down.

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Nothing's happening out there yet.

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The good old classic. The coolest

thing about porn is the story line.

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I'd like doctors like that,

if I go to hospital.

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Strangely enough it helped him!

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It's weird, don't you think?

You volunteer to sleep on a tiny cot -

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- and eat crap food for six months.

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- I know there's more to it.

- I'm doing it for the team spirit.

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- Team spirit and adventure.

- Yeah.

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- How do your parents feel about it?

- They're not overjoyed.

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My parents were like:

"Don't go on missions." -

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So I decided to go to Kosovo,

and on my first day at the garrison -

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- I still thought

I was going to Kosovo.

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But at the meeting we were told

that Kosovo wasn't an option.

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Here it's all 'Afghan'.

I called my mother afterwards -

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- and told her I was going

to Afghanistan after all.

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She cried her eyes out.

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F***ing hell, Rasmus.

what time is it?

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- 41 minutes past.

- What's this? A little mullah?

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- Are those animals? Two foxes?

- They sure aren't hedgehogs.

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What the hell was that?

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- was that mortars?

- Call in and find out.

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You know what's going on?

Over.

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I have a good idea.

I'll just check it out.

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It's probably the person digging

from before that we engaged. Over.

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It's cool they bombed the idiot.

Too bad we can't see him.

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You'll be an easy target now.

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- It's doing a recce.

- Nice.

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It's our eyes out there.

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It's cool that it can check out

suspicious things in a compound.

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Right.

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I'd like to see some action now.

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I don't know

what my first reaction will be.

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We haven't got a chance to know what

it's like, when we haven't tried it.

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And the thought of these

'foreign fighters', you know.

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I can imagine that the first contact

will be rather spicy.

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He could be Taliban.

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Just like anyone

of the 7 billion people out there.

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- Too bad we can't tell them apart.

- The only difference is the weapon.

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He could be hiding it

under his clothes.

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But it's clever.

Imagine we could do the same.

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Do you think anyone

is watching us?

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- Someone's always watching us.

- Right.

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There's bound to be someone

in these compounds -

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- who is on the Taliban side

and keeps an eye on us.

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what are you seeing?

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what does he want?

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What now, Billy Bob?

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Hang on a sec.

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- Who?

- This guy.

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- Is it the informer?

- No, he's lighting a cigarette.

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They don't always do that.

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There's been an uproar on the net

about the 40 Pakistanis -

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- who are said to be entrenched -

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- but their presence hasn't been

verified. It could be a spook or real.

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we're going on a domination patrol -

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- which is a matter of preventing him

from moving freely -

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- and denying him the upper hand

or being master of the domain.

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We've got your back.

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Any updates? Over.

- Enemy forces have been sent out.

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Roger that.

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Who are you?

British? Canadian?

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- Danish.

- Danish?

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- Are you Jewish or Christian?

- Jewish?

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No.

we're Christian.

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why are you here?

Look what you've done to our soil.

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Look!

You shot it up.

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You killed our cow.

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- And you've wounded our family.

- Why did you do that?

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- The Taliban are way over there.

- They have lots of big weapons.

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And they'll shoot you.

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903 Victor, October-fest Carlsberg.

Over.

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Roger. when the civilians are gone,

they'll open fire. Correct?

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Get down!

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I have impact.

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Scan the area!

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- Did you see where it came from?

- Signaler, let's go.

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What was that?

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90, any report on that smoke?

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