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Movie Summary Of The Movie Brothers

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The movie for this essay is Brothers (2009), the film opens with Captain Sam Cahill as the main character who is a marine captain. Having been married to her high school lover, they had two daughters. This is an indication that Sam was also a family man. Before Sam is set to depart to Afghanistan, his brother Tommy is released from a prison where he had been convicted of armed robbery at a bank. After Sam departs to Afghanistan in October 2007, news emerge that Sam’s chopper had crashed in an operation and all the marines inside it had died.
However, we come to realize that the chopper had crashed and Cahill and private Joe Willis had been taken into captivity by the Taliban. As Sam Cahill is tortured as a prisoner of war by …show more content…

Some of the symptom of PSTD that he shows are as discussed in the following incidents captured in the film. For instance, when Cahill returns home, he shows a sense of fear and abnormality when Grace walks in the bathroom when he locked the door but the lock was broken (Butcher et al., 2014). Even after his wife kisses him inside the bathroom after the return, Sam seems less concerned and detached from what she is doing. Cahill also seems to be avoiding people and wants to stay in his compound after coming back from the war. Even after his own father asks him to go to the mechanic while trying to fix his car he looks around and doesn’t want to leave his compound. Also, when Cahill is in the kitchen late at night because he can’t sleep, immediately pulls his gun out when he hears a dog barking in the back yard, he patrols with the gun in the back yard at night. Another incidence that clearly shows a symptom of PSTD in Cahill is the way he approached the marine superior and asked to be deployed back in Afghanistan with his men. (Butcher et al., 2014). Cahill exhibits symptoms of aggressive anger and portrays distorted views of himself when Cahill destroys the remodeled kitchen yelling at grace. Later, when Sam is haunted from intrusive memories every time Grace asks him what happened in Afghanistan.

Diagnoses.
According to DSM-5 criteria, Sam Cahill is a perfect candidate to be

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