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REVIEW: Powerful Tillman Story Explores the PR War Behind the War

If you have any sense of how the U.S. military protects both its own and itself — its image, its insularity and its sense of entitlement — very little in Amir Bar-Lev’s documentary The Tillman Story will surprise you. But The Tillman Story isn’t designed to be a shockeroo exposé; it’s more a slow, steady rumble of anger and dismay at what the U.S. military, and the government, can get away with in the name of public relations, as if PR — and not human lives — were the most important consideration during wartime.

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REVIEW: Powerful Tillman Story Explores the PR War Behind the War

Tillman Story Stuck With R-Rating

In another era, Harvey Weinstein would have forcibly pulled a PG-13 from the backs of the MPAA ratings board members’ throats if he had to. Not so much today, when he and the makers of the documentary The Tillman Story saw its R-rating upheld for “excessive language.” So, for the record: F-bombs delivered either in a sexual context or one in which your own troops fatally shoot you? Automatic “R.” Are we clear? [ The Wrap ]

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