In the Valley of Elah - (unofficial) alternate ending A - SPOILERS!

i loved the movie but found that the tone of the ending didn't match. i disliked the final flag scene and its heavy-handed symbolism and found the sappy annie lennox ballad to be a gross mismatch. so i re-cut the ending and added additional music from the soundtrack. i made two versions and couldn't decide which one i liked better. here's version A.

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[FaisalAuda]

the whole movie was heavy-handed .. i liked the original ending.

[mprobertson1117]

And to the rest of them - war sucks. Just Because we lose soldiers doesn't mean we are losing. People these days don't remember places like normandy and stanlingrad where hundreds of thousands of men died In days. Grow up.

[mprobertson1117]

@killercroc 89 Nothing In the movie was anti American or specifically the Iraq war, like you would love to believe. It's against war in general, but it examines not the actual conflict, but rather what the brave men and women go through to serve their country.

[killercroc89]

@mprobertson1117

No, that would've been against the message of the movie. The ending of this movie tells that America needs help. That America fucks up and kills young men by sending them into a war without sense. The flag symbolizes the change of heart and mind which Hank went through. He understood that Iraq and these times America go through don't have any place for heroes. It's not a patriotic movie. It's against war and wrong heroism.

[atarodg]

@mprobertson1117

The original ending is flawless and meaningful. It concludes the main point of the movie in a simple way. The US was in a huge trouble and it needs help, form inside, outside You just flash back to 2006 and recall the high amount of casualties in Iraq, both civilians and army

[mprobertson1117]

I didn't like the ending either but i think it would've been better if he opened the package and found the flag, smiled, and then it ended.