Tag Archives : frustration

According to the chaplains of two US battalions in Afghanistan ‘that have spent nine months on the front line in the war against the Taliban,’ American soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned.’ The goal of the battalions was ‘to secure the mountainous Wardak province and then to win the people’s allegiance [...]

Director Sam Mendes tells of an America in the 1950s as a microcosm of routine conformity and the subsequent frustration when desires are not turned into reality. Through the broken dreams of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, the weight of daily living without an escape route is a fitting portrait of America during a psychologically grappling and [...]