The Questions of Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying

A film with no easy answers.by Ben ColemanWhat is the value of a comforting lie? That’s the question at the heart of Last Flag Flying, Richard Linklater’s sort-of sequel to 1973’s The Last Detail, in which three Vietnam vets reunite after decades apart to bury a casualty of the Iraq War. None of them can quite agree on how much truth can be humanely dispensed in the wake of a tragedy.Fuck if I know either, and fuck if Linklater knows, but he sure is willing to puzzle it out. Li