Thank You for Your Service (2017)

best movie i've ever seen.

A Masterpiece!

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

It was compelling at first, I'll admit that, but then I saw red flags. First of all, working class guys like these three don't act like this at all. The transition from normal everyday soldier to complete screw-up is too ridiculous to believe. One soldier's memory is just fine in one scene, the next, he has become this complete screw-up with PTSD and trouble remembering things. Then he ends up looking for drugs in the hood, attacking his wife, destroying his apartment, just ridiculous stuff.I mean, life is rough, but you have to have severe mental problems to screw up as much as the characters in this movie. I know a few vets around town and they're not all screw-ups coming back to a life of pure misery. It's just ridiculous.

In the bonus segment of the DVD of "Thank You for Your Service," writer-director Jason Hall described the movie as a "Coming Home film," referring to the outstanding Vietnam War film about marginalized veterans. In a similar vein, actor Miles Teller, who plays the lead role of Sergeant Adam Schumann, indicated that the objective was to "show a side of war that has not been shown."The film was most successful in exposing how the veterans' return from battle in Iraq was the exact opposite of a homecoming. When Schumann and his buddy Tausolo Aieti show up at the Veterans Affairs building outside of Fort Riley, they are desperate for medical assistance and psychological counseling. But they are waiting in a lobby with hundreds of other vets. Ultimately, they are told that they are "hundreds of thousands" of suffering veterans ahead of them who are also seeking help.The film may become overly melodramatic with the repetitive story of the ghost of Doster, the man who died after taking Schumann's place on a patrol after a devastating attack in Building 20 in Rustamiyah, Iraq in 2007. Schumann, Aieti, and Michael Emory, who required brain surgery after Schumann dropped him while carrying the wounded soldier out of a building, are never the same after this devastating sequence of events. One of the strongest subplots in the film is the depiction of the family lives of the vets and how the wives, Saskia Schumann, Alea Aieti, and the widow of James Doster, suffer along with the men. A subtle critique of the top brass at the military is leveled at one of the officers, who fails to recognize the toll taken on the soldiers on the ground. Schumann and Aieti agree that the officer "fought his war at a computer.The most ironic line in the film is Aieti's assertion on multiple occasions that "army saved my life." At first glance, the army provided an identity to Aieti and a comaraderie with his buddies. But what is it all worth, if the army also takes away one's life, even if the veteran seemingly makes it home in one piece?

I liked this film, it´s solid. Maybe a bit too long. But worth watching. Great acting too.

Everyone talks about PTSD these days but this movie shows you the heavy stuff that soldiers have to go through when they get back home from the war. This is a very serious issue that I wish more people would pay attention to. I cried a few different times during the movie. So did my sister.Also I never have understood all the hate for Amy Schumer, but in this movie she is not very good and almost look like she's laughing during some scenes? I don't know. She should stick to comedy though, it took me out of the movie. Hayley Bennett on the other hand was AMAZING!!!! I want to see her in more!Watch this movie!