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‘Generation Kill’ is a shocking peek into marine life
War is never clean and HBO’s seven-part mini-series Generation Kill (airing on The Movie Network and Movie Cantral in Canada) doesn’t aim to change that fact. As it follows the First Recon Marines of Bravo Company, we’re introduced to the raw and dirty lives of U.S. marines during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The series is based on a 2004 book of the same name written by Evan Wright, who was embedded with Bravo Company as it entered Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. It was a spot on the frontlines that Wright pestered the colonel for.
“I harassed him with emails, told him I’d travel light and I could go anywhere, and I wouldn’t be filing everyday so I wouldn’t have to carry tons of equipment. And so they put me with this battalion that was going to go behind enemy lines,” says Wright, who upon reaching base camp convinced First Recon’s commanding officer to let him sit in the lead vehicle of Bravo Company.
From that seat Wright was able to witness the good and bad. He says that though the marines with whom he was stationed could be vulgar, arrogant and rude in their free time, they could also be human and civil.
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The third instalment of Generation Kill airs Sun., July 27 at 9 p.m. ET on The Movie Network and 8 p.m. PT on Movie Central. The remaining episodes air on subsequent Sundays.