I'm Not the Enemy

I'm Not the Enemy

Production country: 
de
Year: 
2011
Duration: 
13 min.
Edition: 
2012
Format: 
film/video
copyright /courtesy VG BILD - Benoit Detalle
copyright /courtesy VG BILD - Benoit Detalle

Home is a place of comfort, security and peace. In the world of a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder suffering war veteran however, such notions become perverted. The home becomes alien and family members come to encapsulate the demons the veteran has to fight. Appropriating dialogues from Hollywood films that deal with the legacy of the Vietnam War and implanting them in quiet German suburbs, I'm not the Enemy looks at ways a society engaged in war deals with the guilt of problematic returns. In a society with little interest in the faraway (Afghan) war that is fought in its name, can the war veteran ever to find any degree of acceptance?

 

(Image: Copyright / Courtesy VG BILD - Benoit Detalle)

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