Seen on 07-03-13 on Pix
--Stumbled upon one heck of a movie.
--the movie suggests the possibility that the invasion of Iraq might have been a costly and terrible mistake. What if it was such a mistake? Well, all the thousands killed in it and the injustice of it all would force the people responsible for the decision into dock. The film version, based on books by Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson, is beautifully summed up thus by the film critic, Roger Ebert:
"Doug Liman's "Fair Game," based on books by Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson and starring Sean Pennand Naomi Watts, is unusually bold for a fictionalization based on real events. Using real names and a good many facts, it argues: (1) Saddam Hussein had no WMD; (2) the CIA knew it; (3) the White House knew it; (4) the agenda of Cheney and his White House neocons required an invasion of Iraq no matter what, and (5) therefore, the evidence was ignored and we went to war because of phony claims."
If the film version of the ghastly Iraqi war was true, Bush administration fought hard to defend itself. What comes through the film is the tension and hard battle the couple had to put up in order to defend their honor. It was an unequal fight. Although the Bush administration disgraced them for exposing his grave mistake, the couple had the moral victory.
We were deeply affected by this film.
--Stumbled upon one heck of a movie.
--the movie suggests the possibility that the invasion of Iraq might have been a costly and terrible mistake. What if it was such a mistake? Well, all the thousands killed in it and the injustice of it all would force the people responsible for the decision into dock. The film version, based on books by Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson, is beautifully summed up thus by the film critic, Roger Ebert:
"Doug Liman's "Fair Game," based on books by Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson and starring Sean Pennand Naomi Watts, is unusually bold for a fictionalization based on real events. Using real names and a good many facts, it argues: (1) Saddam Hussein had no WMD; (2) the CIA knew it; (3) the White House knew it; (4) the agenda of Cheney and his White House neocons required an invasion of Iraq no matter what, and (5) therefore, the evidence was ignored and we went to war because of phony claims."
If the film version of the ghastly Iraqi war was true, Bush administration fought hard to defend itself. What comes through the film is the tension and hard battle the couple had to put up in order to defend their honor. It was an unequal fight. Although the Bush administration disgraced them for exposing his grave mistake, the couple had the moral victory.
We were deeply affected by this film.
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I had seen this movie a long time back and had similar thoughts. I still remember the scene where sean penn actually goes to Niger , to check whether the uranium said to have been transported to Iraq actually happened. Amazing tenacity.
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