Blessed by Fire (2005) on Netflix

The suicide of an old soldier buddy brings up some old memories for an Argentinian man.

Blessed By Fire is the story of two young men sent to fight the 1982 war in the Falkland Islands (or as they are known in Argentina, the Malvinas) who return home bearing the brutal scars of war. Twenty years after the war's end, journalist Esteban Leguizamón is informed that Alberto Vargas, one of the men he served with, has attempted to commit suicide after suffering from years of depression brought on by his experiences in the war. Esteban visits the comatose Vargas at the hospital, and in a series of extended flashbacks, revisits the scene of Argentina's "unwinnable war." Esteban and fellow soldiers Vargas and Juan are living in foxholes on the remote, windswept Falklands, battling hunger, boredom, abuse, and the deprivations of war as they await the arrival of British forces. A series of harrowing battle scenes with British forces ensue, and the Argentines realize the futility and violence of their mission. They're cannon fodder, overwhelmed, outnumbered, pawns in a futile political game. Back in the present, Esteban returns to the Falklands to come to terms with himself and the past. These emotional final scenes were shot on location in the Falkalnds, the first Argentinean film to do so, and as Esteban looks over the still off-limits battlefields filled with mines, live ammunition, and rusting military equipment, the futility of war is abundantly clear. Controversial in its homeland and politically relevant in the U.S, Blessed By Fire is a moving tribute to the veterans of all wars and the psychological burdens they bear.

—Koch Lorber Films

When the journalist Esteban Leguizamón receives a phone call from his acquaintance Marie, he goes to the hospital and finds that his former friend of the Falklands War Alberto Vargas tried to commit suicide. Marie, who was married to Vargas, tells Esteban that Vargas has never recovered from the period he served in Falkland Islands in 1982 and was extremely depressed in the last days. Esteban realizes that more than two hundred and ninety veterans from the war against the British troops had committed suicide and he recalls the tough period he fought in Falkalnds with Vargas and Juan, reviving the ghost from his past and opening deep wounds he had forgotten.

—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil