De første indtryk af filmen tegner godt! Damn jeg glæder mig til denne film. Black Hawk Down med Greengrass? Count me in!
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Went to a screening of the Paul Greengrass/Matt Damon film GREEN ZONE
in Paramus tonight. It’s a movie based on a book about the search for
WMD across Iraq, which to me at this juncture seems like a bit of a
moot point (we know there weren’t any) but this movie is well made at
every level if a bit too dense and talky in parts. Its worth seeing
just to watch how it all went so wrong.
Okay, let me attempt a stab
at plot summary: Damon plays Chief Miller who runs an ops party
searching for WMD. But after many a bloody gun battle, Damon’s team
makes it into the supposed WMD sites to find nothing time after time.
When he reports to his superiors back in the ‘Green Zone’ (the lush
area where American officals live outside of Bagdhad – the pace is like
a 5 star hotel btw) to tell them that their intel is consistently off,
he is immediately censured and told to simply follow orders.
At
this point we check in with Bush Administrative official Greg Kinnear
who is busy plotting to install a new government to be hand picked by
America themselves. Meanwhile, CIA agent Brendab Gleeson is fighting
with Kinnear as ALL American intel (which we know is all wrong) has
been given by one single source: some mysterious figure named Magellan.
Soon
enough, Damon and Gleeson team up to uncover this fraudulent Magellan
character as well as the search for the real location of WMD. If you
know your current events you will know the GIANT reveal that comes
halfway through the movie. If you don’t, I’m not gonna be a spoiler.
Greengrass
is always a first rate director and the movie plays like BLACK HAWK
DOWN with an incredibly intricate political mystery at its core. It’s a
lot to take in: action movie, mystery, political and social commentary.
And I will probably have to go see it again to absorb all it was
throwing at me.
Damon is always great. Never playing righteous,
more just frustrated that his missions are all bullshit and he knows
he’s being lied to. Greg Kinnear has always annoyed me so I guess he’s
well cast as a bureaucratic asshole here.
An interesting
character is Amy Ryan’s Wall Street reporter, who is always over
Kinnear’s shoulder waiting to interview this mysterious Magellan (whom
he always keeps just out of reach to hold control over her). When Damon
finally corners her, we realize she’s literally been quoting someone
she’s never met (taking it all from Kinnear instead) therefore she and
the WSJ are indeed complicit in this false reasoning for going to war.
If this is based on a non-fiction book which I believe it is than
that’s pretty scary. In an effort to get the scoop first, reporters
were printing anything they were spoon fed.
I enjoyed this film,
dense as it is. To be fair, one really can’t say its confusing because
its very clear in its points. I’d just advise you all to drink a lot of
coffee before you sit down to watch it."
