From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Hi, I'm Elvis Mitchell.

Welcome to the treatment from Austin, Texas.

I'm sitting across from somebody.

How best to put this, what a difference a decade makes?

A little less than 10 years ago, Kimberly Pierce wrote and directed, Boys Don't Cry. Kim Pierce's new movie is Stop Loss. Kim,

thanks for being here. It's really a pleasure to be here. I've got to ask you to explain for the audience who might not know what stop loss means specifically.

Sure. Stop Loss is a military term and it means keeping a soldier involuntarily passed the term of service

that he or she agreed to in their contract.

And the way I heard about stop loss was very interesting.

I was I-Aming with soldiers who were actually in combat in Iraq or Afghanistan and a very

patriotic soldier am to me, you

know, one day and he said, do you want to hear about something really effed up? And I said,

what? Because obviously I always want to hear about something effed up. And he typed out

ST-O-P-L-O-S-S. And I read the words and I said, stop loss. And it didn't make sense to me. So I said,

I don't understand what is that. And he said, it's a backdoor draft. Now, I understood what draft

was from Vietnam that we had that. The whole country participated. I also know we don't have a draft now

and we're unlikely to get one. And I said, what's a backdoor draft? And he said it means that they're involuntarily

extending service members' contracts, past their tours of duty. He said they're recycling the people

who've already done their service and should be getting out. And he said that he was pissed off

about what was happening because it was happening to his best friend, a guy that he had been

through combat with, who had risked his life. And he said that the effect on the soldier was that he could die on a third tour. And it was going to destroy his marriage because his wife had been putting up with him being gone for so long. As it turns out, the soldier that he was describing is now stop lost in Afghanistan. The entire unit pretty much is stop lost.

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