In Our Name - Coping after Combat

In Our Name is spirited and purposeful. Welsh paces the film superbly and packs it with menace. Froggatt is excellent, particularly in moments of tortured silence. When she plots her escape from Mark, she does so with the blank expression of someone deadened by danger. The whole thing is reminiscent of a passage in The Good Soldiers (2009), David Finkel's compelling account of the mayhem-filled days of 2007 Baghdad, written from the perspective of a US infantry battalion. “How can anybody kill and function normally afterward? Or see someone get killed and function normally afterward?” a jaded sergeant asks the author, after his platoon has witnessed one of their number burn to death in a roadside bomb attack. “It's not the human response”, he adds.

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