The Lone Survivor

The title of the movie is so intriguing, that it is what pulled me in to want to watch more.  As soon as the navy seals went out on their mission to kill a Taliban leader, I knew that only one of them would survive. After coming to realization that the movie was based on a true story, and that the navy seals who went on the mission had real lives at home, I was more attached to the characters in the movie. I wanted them to survive, but sadly they did not. The most interesting thing that I took away from the movie was that the people of the Afghan village did not like the Taliban,  even if they came from their country. They hid and protected the navy seal from the Taliban, while I expected them to side with the Taliban.

I feel that the greatest pitfall in not portraying the events of our nation's military correctly is that during the time of battle, soldiers are so caught up in what they are doing, they cannot relay exactly what happened to movie producers and in books. They only have an image of what they think went on around them inside their head, when in reality, they were so caught up in battle at the moment, there is so much they probably missed. Therefore, the military cannot be portrayed in great detail and the events that happened within the military cannot be depicted exactly in movies.