What I liked
The way I felt moved by this script, by the on-point direction and the splendid performances.
What I didn't like
Damned if I know.
My overall impression
Wounded makes for a harrowing 80 minutes. Harrowing and strangely beautiful as three deeply hurt human beings struggle with and for each other and themselves. A woman and wife must care for her deeply disabled husband who came back from combat a shadow of his former self—shrapnel in his brain rendering him almost (but not quite) a child. Into her life comes another veteran, a man with whom she falls in love but turns out to be carrying his own wounds, in his case in the way his entire nervous system seems to have rewired itself in reaction to stress and trauma. Meanwhile, in a raw tapestry of love and guilt with equal parts hope, despair, passion and logic seemingly everything wonderful, all things heart-breakingly sad, plus weariness seeming into their bones plays itself out. All here are wounded, two by war, a third by dealing not so much from the fallout of war but from caring so much for those caught in that fallout. Not a “feel good” piece, but a “feel very profoundly” work.
