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the daily beast obsessed, the new Afghanistan war documentary Combat Apps Quota doesn't introduce itself, explain itself or end in a satisfying way. It's weird, funny, disturbing, brutal and heartbreaking. And one of the best documentaries and years. Combat Obscura is directed by Miles Lagasse, a former U. S. Marine corpse cameramen who spent much of 2011 and Helmand province in southern Afghanistan with a battalion of the six Marine Regiment based in North Carolina. After getting out of the Marine corpse and spending a little time processing his experiences, the Gauss, now 29 enrolled in film school at Columbia University. He just graduated. Combat of Skoda is his first movie. Lagasse came home from Afghanistan with all the footage. The Marine Corpse doesn't want the public to see Marines curving around pitching about the war smoking weed, running about the local population, dying and mourning their dead. It's unpretentious, unflinching, unsentimental and in structural terms it's utterly daring. Early on in production, coming up, Scooter was shaping up to be a traditional documentary with voiceover and stage interviews that would weave in and out of the front line footage. I was sort of doing a Restrepo esque type thing, Lagasse told the Daily Beast, referring to Sebastian Jungers, 2010. Powerful Afghanistan war documentary. But a conventional documentary could indeed justice two things Lagasse saw and suffered alongside a fellow cameramen, Justin Lawyer. It was feeling like I was just explaining the experience, Lagasse said, working with editor Eric Shuman. The gods stripped out of the Where are they now? Interviews with the surviving Marines. What's left. It's just the raw experience you drop into Helmand province with a bunch of filthy, exasperated Marines.