From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

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They also serve with over bad news to families damaged by war.

It's the story of the new film The Messenger.

Its director and co-writer, Oren Movement is here.

Oren, thanks for being here.

Oh, great to be here.

It could almost be a series of dialogues, theatrical dialogues.

And I wanted to first and foremost where the conception came from.

It actually came from my co-writer, Alessandro Kamoan.

A few years ago, we were having a casual conversation about the war.

He's from Italy. I'm from Israel.

We're outsiders, foreigners.

And we have our sort of outsider somewhat sentimental, actually, perspective on living in this country.

And we brought up the idea that, you know, the families, the returning soldiers,

the people who have to live with the consequences of the war, are not being talked about or

approached or even seen. And he thought of casualty notification as a great way to sort of enter

their stories, obviously a very dramatic, tragic way, but the one that kind of opens up the

world of families that are

associated with the military and pay the consequences of the decision to go to war in a way

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