Kimberly Peirce Urges Filmgoers To Just Say No To ...
Kimberly Peirce Urges Filmgoers To Just Say No To Stop-Loss Policy
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Fighting for your country is truly admirable; there isn’t anything more patriotic. As a 20-year-old man, I know that the nation’s recruiters are salivating over people like myself, and I’d like to believe that if I were to enlist myself to serve in the military my government would candidly return the favor with honesty and protection. But it doesn’t always work that way.
With people like myself in mind, “Boys Don’t Cry” director Kimberly Peirce set out to make “Stop Loss,” a Ryan Phillippe/Joseph Gordon-Levitt drama that hits DVD this week.
“It doesn’t make sense that we have a volunteer army, and then that we’re keeping these guys in three, four, five tours, and women, and we’re recycling them,” Peirce recently fumed about the currently instated ’stop-loss’ policy involuntarily keeping soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. “It’s a backward draft. This is all coming from the soldiers; we need to find a way to staff the military, other than stop-loss.”
Peirce believes young men and women interested in serving in the military should be aware of these unknown obligations, collateral damage of defending your country. She hopes the film will continue to have a positive effect on the policy the soldiers, the public and families of military personnel find excessive.
“Go into the recruiter’s office and say ‘I want to sign up for my country, but I do not want to sign the stop-loss part!’,” Peirce urged young people who want to enlist. “They need to become vocal. They need numbers. Becoming vocal, getting it on the Internet, and getting it in the press.”
Peirce isn’t hoping to further the divide between pro-military and anti-war advocates; she is, however, eager to tell people to demand change to a policy that screws both sides.
“What’s great is [people] can be anti the stop-loss policy and completely pro the military,” she explained. “But they have to make it clear that they don’t want to sign away, literally, their life.”
While making “Stop-Loss,” Peirce was touched by the real-life stories of many veterans. Many of their stories, both tragic and triumphant, informed her flick.
“I love the idea that [the film] is not only telling the truth about the soldiers’ stories for them, but it’s also opening up America’s eyes to what’s going on,” Peirce explained. “And I think Americans are much more curious about the soldiers than we’re being told they are. Sometimes, the media says they’re not interested. But they are very interested.”
How do you feel about the stop-loss policy: Necessary, or illegal? Would you like to see the media put more pressure on the government to discontinue its use?
With people like myself in mind, “Boys Don’t Cry” director Kimberly Peirce set out to make “Stop Loss,” a Ryan Phillippe/Joseph Gordon-Levitt drama that hits DVD this week.
“It doesn’t make sense that we have a volunteer army, and then that we’re keeping these guys in three, four, five tours, and women, and we’re recycling them,” Peirce recently fumed about the currently instated ’stop-loss’ policy involuntarily keeping soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. “It’s a backward draft. This is all coming from the soldiers; we need to find a way to staff the military, other than stop-loss.”
Peirce believes young men and women interested in serving in the military should be aware of these unknown obligations, collateral damage of defending your country. She hopes the film will continue to have a positive effect on the policy the soldiers, the public and families of military personnel find excessive.
“Go into the recruiter’s office and say ‘I want to sign up for my country, but I do not want to sign the stop-loss part!’,” Peirce urged young people who want to enlist. “They need to become vocal. They need numbers. Becoming vocal, getting it on the Internet, and getting it in the press.”
Peirce isn’t hoping to further the divide between pro-military and anti-war advocates; she is, however, eager to tell people to demand change to a policy that screws both sides.
“What’s great is [people] can be anti the stop-loss policy and completely pro the military,” she explained. “But they have to make it clear that they don’t want to sign away, literally, their life.”
While making “Stop-Loss,” Peirce was touched by the real-life stories of many veterans. Many of their stories, both tragic and triumphant, informed her flick.
“I love the idea that [the film] is not only telling the truth about the soldiers’ stories for them, but it’s also opening up America’s eyes to what’s going on,” Peirce explained. “And I think Americans are much more curious about the soldiers than we’re being told they are. Sometimes, the media says they’re not interested. But they are very interested.”
How do you feel about the stop-loss policy: Necessary, or illegal? Would you like to see the media put more pressure on the government to discontinue its use?
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