Personally, I don't really like dramas, or war movies, especially the kind that depict war and military life. I was a soldier for a while before, and I didn't like that experience, but that's probably one of the reasons I liked the movie. The film shows the bad life of the army and explains that not all soldiers are heroes, some of them are very bad, and some of them are trying to escape this bad life. Another reason is because there is a bit of suspense in this film, in which a father has been persistently inquiring about the truth of his son's murder. There was also a female police officer who tried to help the father, but in the process had to confront her male sexist colleagues. Although the plot in the film is a bit slow, it is still very interesting to see the story unfold slowly.
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