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Surprisingly subdued but entertaining dramedy centered around the Afghan conflict. Tina Fey is Kim Baker, an ambitious reporter embedded in a land where cultures clash and new lives are forged as easily as they are lost.
The movie's strengths are multitude but it really does an excellent job of showing how ambition unrestrained can bear heavy costs if not kept in check while simultaneously showing us how our perceived control of the lives we lead is fleeting at best. Though this sounds nearly nihilistic, the film does a wonderful job of dissecting this theme with a tactful lightness that suggests that everything is part of the learning process of life.
In addition to this we get an engaging, charming, and talented cast of actors that, alongside Ms. Fey, make spending time in their midst almost celebratory despite their travails. Themes of the cultural chasm that exist between the western world and the fundamentalist middle east are deftly handled and never lower themselves to pandering to a PC crowd, shockingly.
