In California's Mojave Desert, the US Army has built a "virtual Iraq" - a billion dollar urban warfare simulation - and populated it with hundreds of Iraqi role-players. 'Full Battle Rattle' follows an Army Battalion through the simulation, as they attempt to quell an insurgency and prevent Medina Wasl, a mock Iraqi village, from slipping into civil war. Through series of intimate stories - of Iraqi exiles fleeing the war (and now "playing" it) and US Soldiers heading into it - the film provides a revealing insight into the soul of the American war machine. Comic, surreal and poignant, the film casts new light onto the issues that confound America's efforts and in the battle for Medina Wasl, it finds a potent allegory of the Iraq War and the cultural and religious differences that confound America's efforts.
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