Saw a couple good ones recently: "Spooner" and "Day Zero".

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Spooner
(2008) R
Only days away from being kicked out of his parents' house, loafer 30-year-old-to-be Spooner falls head over heels for Rose. But when Rose says she's about to move to the Philippines, Spooner scrambles to win her heart and convince her stay.

Day Zero
(2007) R
In his feature film debut, director Bryan Gunnar Cole imagines an otherworldly America in the not-too-distant future where the draft has been reinstated to fight the global war on terror and a new generation is faced with the prospect of military service. In the center of it all are three conflicted friends: Aaron (Elijah Wood), a budding novelist; George (Chris Klein), a corporate lawyer; and Dixon (Jon Bernthal), a cab driver.

[dmosh42]

1. I saw 'Day Zero' based on your rec, Bif...

I thought it kind of thought provoking, as I remembered back to those Vietnam days, where this really went on. I was already in the service as a volunteer, when the war was stepped up under LBJ. So I saw many of my friends getting the call, and some didn't come back. Thanks for the tip!

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2. Question for you (Spoiler alert)

At the end of the movie, did you get the sense that they both were going to go, or did the Chris Klein character give him a nod and smile to acknowledge him doing his duty? I though it really left it up to the viewer to decide.

[dmosh42]

3. My sense was that the movie was made, succcessfully avoiding the idea to go or not was.....

the right thing, but each individual had to come to grips on how to handle that huge life event. When a government makes a draft law, it doesn't allow any option for the common people, although I remember there was options for families who had the cash to send sons to colleges and obtain deferments. But in the movie, they had no option, and the taxi driver, and the guy from the wealthy family accepted their fate, while the third guy reacted in the extreme, but was real, because I remember we had many who fled the country, rather than do what was unacceptable to them.