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While it may have had an all-star cast boasting the likes of Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Tom Cruise, Lions for Lambs arised without a splash. In fact, it hit audiences with a dull and disappointing thud. Honestly, that partially surprises me, partially doesn’t, and partially disappoints me. The film is by no means a masterpiece, nor is it a robust and hard-hitting political thriller, action film, or drama. However, it does pack a punch against apathy and disinterest, and

does so with a passionate and measured hand.

The film focuses on three main interactions - the journalist (Streep) and the politician (Cruise), the professor (Redford) and the student (Andrew Garfield), and the two soldiers and old friends (Michael Pena and Derek Luke), who are in Afghanistan. Each character provides a face to an aspect of today’s current war-filled society — one that brings it out of abstract thought and the printed word.

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Original post by Monika Bartyzel