The Inspection has echoes of other military movies, most notably Full Metal Jacket. Writer/director Elegance Bratton’s signature is all over the story, though, giving the film a personal touch. Like Jeremy Pope’s Ellis French, Bratton was kicked out of his house as a teenager for being gay and spent the following years homeless until he enlisted. In one of the film’s many devastating moments, French says that he had two options: die a homeless nobody or risk dying a hero on the…
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