Self-Embedded: Bad Voodoo's War

by Jordan Yerman | March 28, 2008 at 05:50 am

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In her second Iraq War documentary, filmmaker Deborah Scranton gets out of the way and lets her subjects do the talking... literally. She sent camera equipment to the Bad Voodoo Platoon and edited the resulting footage to paint a different picture of war: paranoia and boredom.

The Bad Voodoo platoon of the 1st Battalion, 184th Infantry Regiment handles security for convoys moving from Kuwait to Iraq. And running trucks in 2007 isn't nearly as action-packed as hunting insurgents in Fallujah in 2004. So Scranton had to burrow deeper into the psychological drama for Bad Voodoo's War. And she had to show that this slow-motion style of conflict can scar its combatants, too.

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