By Aaron Hillis Tuesday, Mar 9 2010 Between the past few years’ worth of Iraq War docs and on-the-ground TV reports, it’s easy to collectively believe that we definitively understand the monotonous yet dangerous daily existence of U.S. soldiers in the Middle East....
By Simon Abrams Considering how frequently First Lieutenant Mike Scotti interrupts the footage he shot during the preliminary days of the US invasion of Iraq in 2004 in Severe Clear with narration, it’s hard to think of him as the film’s subject and not its author....
Critic Pick – Severe Clear This visceral, gripping doc uses footage shot in Iraq to give us a clear-eyed, brutal, but decidedly unpoliticized look at the reality of war. – Miranda Siegel, New York Magazine
I reviewed Severe Clear tonight, and don’t know whether I’d make a good reviewer or not, but I have mixed emotions, which I will share with whomever cares to. I’m a U.S. Marine and have been in the Corps for a short 22+ years. I’m enlisted and have served in the Gulf...
Marine’s Eye View: Severe Clear Yes sir, the Marines certainly can use some strong language. They will also fight and die for their country without so much as a second thought. All of which comes through loud and clear in Kristian Fraga’s Severe Clear (trailer here),...
Severe Clear—a Marine’s view of Operation Iraqi Freedom Defense Dept. Examiner Bruce Clarke I was asked to review the movie “Severe Clear” which was made by Marine First Lieutenant (LT) Mike Scotti from New Jersey. This movie was shot with a DVD camera as the Marines...
