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but maker matthew heineman had an ambition different from daily news journalism with his 90—minute filmut for a few hours, a day or two. i had the luxury of being able to tell the story over months. with this film i think we have over 1,000 hours of footage that we culled together into a 96—minute film. at the end of the day, we are all trying to tell a story. it's very nice what you do with your work and how connect with the people. heineman is an affable, approachable man sensitive to the lives of others. in his previous films including in cartel land which focused on the mexican drug trade, and in city of ghosts which followed syrian citizen journalists operating under cover. he always got good access to compelling individuals to tell a bigger story. he does the same with retrograde. it's a portrait of the last several months of the war of afghanistan seen first through the eyes of a green beret unit on their last deployment to afghanistan and after biden pulled out the troops, and they left, i decided to pivot the story to focus on an afghan general that they were working with, to f