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Sand Castle (2017)

TV-MA | | Drama, War | 21 April 2017 (USA)
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Set during the occupation of Iraq, a squad of U.S. soldiers try to protect a small village.

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A soldier enlists just before the 9/11. He is no brave man, volunteering do defend freedom. Arriving in Iraq in 2003, just after the occupation of Bagdad, with a few soldiers of his infantry platoon, he is sent to provide water to a village whose infrastructure was destroyed. Simple things however, such as water transportation, water distribution and the reconstruction of the plumbing became a challenge in war environment.

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An MRAP (possibly a Buffalo or Cougar) appears in the motor pool during the first scene which is set in 2003, MRAPs were not in common use until around 2007 onward by the US military. See more »

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Cpt. Syverson: [saying "goodbye" to a sheik] Listen to me, you piece of shit. I hope you get shot and fucking die.
[to Mahmoud]
Cpt. Syverson: Don't translate that!
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A simple but effective plot
23 August 2017 | by See all my reviews

This film tells the story of a young soldier in Kuwait, who is reluctantly being sent to Iraq to help fix the water supply system in a village. However, their help is not welcomed by the village, and they are mey with multiple hostile attacks.

"Sand Castle" has a simple but effective plot, where the soldiers have to do everything in their power to fix the water supply that got broken in the war. A seemingly simple task becomes very complicated when the locals are actively resisting and even sabotaging the operation. It can be plainly seen that, what seems to be a good will mission from one side is interpreted as an unwelcomed act by the other side. I think this unwelcomed good will mission can be extrapolated to the whole war, and this particular mission is a microcosm of the whole Iraq war. It leaves soldiers wounded physically and psychologically, especially when soldiers think they are doing good.


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