The Messenger
Movie • 2009 • Drama
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Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson (Samantha Morton), to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.
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timestamp is about an hour and 14 minutes when theyre in the store
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The protagonist has a scar near his eye and describes damage to his vision caused by an IED. We briefly see him being examined by an opthalmologist and takes eye drops throughout the movie.
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The protagonist describes a time when he went to the roof of a building and contemplated jumping, but states that the sun came up and he found that he didn't want to anymore.
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There's a sex scene at the start of the film and a later scene features the protagonist standing outside while his partner has very loud sex off-screen and requests that the woman choke him. Casual references in dialogue to sex during wartime, etc.
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Mild shakey cam in some scenes.
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There are descriptions of gun violence and injuries from IED's, some very explicit. The protagonist and his partner also run around a parking lot while drunk, pretending to shot each other with various non-existent firearms. Use your discretion.
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The movie follows a pair of soldiers who have been tasked with informing next of kin when a soldier is killed in action. Some of the deceased have children. One had a pregnant wife. The female lead, whose husband was KIA, has a young son and there is brief discussion over who should tell him, along with a later scene in which he questions being served his favorite dinner and is then presumably informed.
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The protagonist's partner reveals himself to be an alcoholic and talks about the regularity with which he has been drinking recently. He also gets drunk multiple times during the course of the film.
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The protagonist is having an affair with a woman he has known most of his life, who is engaged to another man. They have a sex scene at the start of the film and the protagonist and his partner drunkenly crash her engagement party near the end.
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The protagonist takes an ill-advised interest in a woman whose husband was KIA. After delivering the news with his partner, he returns alone later and observes her breaking the news to her son through the front window of their home. He also follows them to the mall and watches the funeral from a distance. He repeatedly returns to the house and attempts to make himself useful by fixing their car, etc. until she expresses reciprocal attraction.
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The film begins with the protagonist in an exam room, where he blinks up at medical lights and it is unclear whether he is crying or using eye drops. Later, we see him in an opthalmologist's office, where the doctor looks at his eye through a machine before prescribing different eye drops.
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When informed of his son's death, a man responds negatively and spits in the protagonist's face.
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The protagonist and his partner get drunk on multiple occasions. His partner also reveals that he is an alcoholic while casually drinking.
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