Everyone a war correspondent.

AuthorNolan-Brown, Elizabeth
PositionBriefly Noted - Point and Shoot - Movie review - Brief article

"Cellphone camera in one hand, AK-47 in the other." That's how Matthew Van Dyke, the young American narrator and protagonist of Point and Shoot, describes fellow fighters in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. "Everybody wants something they can share on Facebook. Everybody tries to create their ideal image of how they want to be seen."

On some level, the documentary is an adventure story: A man triumphs over obsessive-compulsive disorder and finds new purpose when a motorcycle trip around Africa and the Middle East lands him on the forefront of...

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