In the Valley of Elah is a story about retired military sergeant (Tommy Lee Jones) trying to find his missing soldier youngest son - Mike, played by Jonathan Tucker (The Black Donnellys). Mike dissapeared after coming back from Iraq and though he is the kind of kid that calls his parents, he didn't tell them that he was back in the US.
This movie connects the viewers to the distress mind state of the soldiers in Iraq. A some what a justification that the sufferings that the Iraqians received (still receiving) in Iraq radiates to the mind of the soldiers. With the American having to ship out soldiers to Iraq, they accepted anybody who has no felony record (eventhough they have crime records) though these soldiers are still young, and not mentally ready to face what is in Iraq.
The Iraq phenomena has seen a lot of perspectives conjured up by Hollywood. While most of the movies concentrate on the actions and how powerful the Americans are and how supposedly how all Muslims support terrorism, this movie showed the psychological effects of these young soldiers. The psychological "aftermath" and how it affected them in their lives.
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