Su Ann: Green Zone

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suffering from writer's block. cannot seem to write another word for my feature article assignment :( this is crazy! (btw, what's the word limit, anyone?) hence! here i am.

okay, so has anyone seen "Green Zone"?



(cannot believe i've seen Green Zone and not AiW.)

(but really, i was forced to. Anil loves war movies. it's like playing CS, with better effects.)

it stars Matt Damon. and basically his was the only name i recognized in the whole castlist -- others include Yigal Naor, Said Faraj, Faycal Attugui and Aymen Hamdouchi. (you see what i mean!) IMDB gave Green Zone a 7.2/10 ratings. and i don't know about you guys, but i have this thing (OCD alert!) about checking reviews before and sometimes, after i watch a movie. and you know, 7.2 for IMDB is not bad!

movie plot:

it's 2003, set during the first month of the Iraq war when the weapons of mass destruction used to justify the American-led invasion failed to materialise. Chief Warrant officer, Roy Miller (Damon) is the head of the WMD (weapons of mass destruction) search unit in Baghdad, assigned to find and secure Saddam's chemical weapons using Pentagon-approved "intel". only problem is, his unit keeps coming up empty at every site they are ordered to search for WMD. his superiors keep telling him to keep his mouth shut, and gradually his frustration leads him to CIA specialist, Martin Brown. together, they team up to uncover the truth. but what is the truth?

in the movie (apparently, it mirrors reality), Lawrie Dayne works for the Wall Street Journal and it was she who first wrote about the possibility of the existence of WMD in Iraq ... which subsequently led to the war. and after the destruction of a city and the loss of so many lives, not being able to even FIND the WMD? and the chance that it probably doesn't exist at all? chilling.

i thought about the influence of media a lot during the movie.

"U.S. military and political leaders charge in ready to do anything they can convince the American public to accept."

am suddenly reminded of the movie "Wag the Dog."

so my point is -- the movie was okay. granted, the chasing-and-shooting scenes (what's a matt damon movie without them?) get really tiring after a while, but other than that, it's pretty worth it :)

the movie makes you think.

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1 comments:

cecilia said...

su ann..as long as u reach 4 pages..den its fine..=D

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