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A FILM EVERY AMERICAN OUGHT TO SEE….

* FEBRUARY 19, 2009, 8:46 P.M. ET

GUARD OF HONOR

By Dorothy Rabinowitz

It was impossible to imagine, beforehand, all the ways a film like “Taking Chance” (Saturday, 8-9:30 p.m. EST, on HBO) could work its power. There are no conflicts, no warring sides, no mysteries of character—the usual stuff of drama. The story’s outcome is clear from the beginning. Yet it’s no less clear that “Taking Chance” is not only high drama, but a kind that is, in the most literal way, breathtaking—watching parts of it can make breathing an effort, and those parts come at every turn. It’s no less obvious that this film, about a Marine killed in combat, could have gone wrong in all sorts of ways and did so in none of them. There is in this work, at once so crushing and exhilarating, not a false note.

The credit for that belongs to Lt. Col. Michael Stroble, U.S. Marine Corps, on whose journal the film is based; to producer, writer and director Ross Katz; and, not least, to Kevin Bacon, whose portrayal of the devoted Col. Stroble is a masterwork—flawless in its fierce economy, eloquent in its testimony, most of it wordless, to everything that is going on.

READ THE WHOLE REVIEW, and then go and SEE THE TRAILER and a lot of other stuff about the making of the film, the subject of the film, the actors, etc..
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Please watch the film….and get as many others to watch, as well…especially young people.
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We need to see the price that is being paid so that we can live in freedom and safety….to know what we owe can be an inspiration to see that we do what we can to be worthy of the sacrifice.

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