First Kill

First Kill is a provocative documentary about war and the thin line between good and evil. The film is about the contradictory feelings that war evokes. Feelings such as fear and anger, but also seduction, fascination and excitement. With First Kill, the film makers intend to confuse the viewer. In the documentary, they create an atmosphere which causes the viewer to lose his certainties and confront him with the ultimate question: Would I pull the trigger? In First Kill, various people talk about their experiences during the war. One of them is Michael Herr, former war correspondent and author of the bestseller Dispatches, about the horror and attraction of war. He also wrote the script for Full Metal Jacket and was involved in Apocalypse Now. For ten years, Herr refused to give any interviews because he was fed up with war, but in First Kill he descends into his own dark experiences one more time. For some people, war is just work, as we see in the story of war photographer Eddie Adams. Immediately after he took the famous and acclaimed photograph of a general shooting a Vietcong soldier in the head, he went out to lunch. Besides this, veterans talk about their experiences. Many of them suffer nightmares and are still struggling with their traumas, others have become addicted to killing.