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Old 09-19-2007, 12:33 PM   #130 of 186
Holadem
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Re: 2007 Film List


Forgot to add No End in Sight

A bleak, unflinching look at the conduct of the war in Iraq. The doc does not question the decision to go to war, rather, posits that the current quagmire is a result of a series of bad decisions by the Powers That Be. Interviewees are almost exclusively administration officials and military brass who were on board at the beginning, and have since become disillusioned with the realization that the war was being run from the very top by a handful of clueless ideologues stubbornly blind and deaf to the advice of their subordinates on the ground. The rest of the interviewees are a couple of soldiers and Iraqi civilians. With perhaps the exception of the latter, there were no anti-war interviewees that I can recall. This is a point worth making, lest this thing be lumped with the more partisan and inflammatory treatments of the subject matter.

While there is little here in terms of big picture that will surprises news junkies, the thoughtful analysis and poignant interviews from insiders will shed a new chilling perspective onto old facts and highlight the deadly mix of naiveté and incompetence which lead to the title of the feature.

Of note is Philip Glass's haunting score which serves further to elevate the material beyond what you would see on PBS.

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