Extended Reading
  • Jerrod 2022-03-21 09:02:22

    where is hope


    The whole film is a leisurely account of the incident. There are hardly any hot scenes, but there is a lot of deep space for the audience to think about behind the incident.
    The film tells the story of a retired military policeman who went to find his son who was missing after returning from the...

  • Enola 2022-01-02 08:01:45

    "The Battle of Ela Valley"

    At first I thought that the plot of the film was still a typical Hollywood routine. With the cooperation of a female investigator, a father discovered a shocking dark side of war or politics or system through his own investigation of the strange death of his son. Although the end of the film still...

  • Chauncey 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    Help me remember when I wasn't bad

  • Albert 2022-03-21 09:02:22

    It is a novel approach to analyze and reflect on war through a crime.

In the Valley of Elah quotes

  • Hank Deerfield: That's how you fight monsters. You lure them in close to you, you look them in the eye, you smack them down.

    David Sanders: You fight a lot of monsters?

    Hank Deerfield: Yeah.

    David Sanders: You win?

    Hank Deerfield: If I didn't I'd have been crushed, right?

  • Corporal Steve Penning: We seemed to always pull sentry duty together. Freezing our asses off. He tried to convince me of the craziest things.

    Hank Deerfield: Try to get you to wear pantyhose?

    Corporal Steve Penning: Did he tell you?

    Hank Deerfield: No, I told *him*. Cuts the cold like nothing else.

    Corporal Steve Penning: So he wasn't lying.

    Hank Deerfield: You just don't want to get shot wearing a pair of those things. You'll never live it down.