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Home » Ignorant Movie Reviews » 2007
 
Iraq in Fragments
Submitted by enpen on Tue, 03/20/2007 - 2:46pm.
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Oly Film Society

        Olympia Film Society
            206 5th Ave N
       Olympia, WA  98501                

      Tuesday, March 20, 9pm
 Wednesday, March 21, 6:30pm
     Thursday, March 22, 9pm
     Friday, March 23, 6:30pm
                 
Ignorant Movie Review:  Iraq in Fragments

Response to title:  Double entendre?  The current state of U.S. occupied Iraq as well to the format of the film?  I wonder if they'll tell the tale using a different-parts-of-the-same-whole approach.

Response to curbside poster:  Yes.  Iraq is indeed in fragments.  That's what I get from this poster.

Response post-credits:  Kurdistan North, Sunni Baghdad and Shia South, Iraq suffers at the seams of its fragments.  The documentary takes a Cinéma vérité approach to spinning this narrative; every day people flesh out the viewer's perspectives of modern day Iraq, giving us the fragments of the former whole.

If you're adverse to war documentaries on account of their often graphic violence, this may be the documentary for you.  The violence in this film is perceived, felt in the lives affected, rather than seen first hand.  It's an old narrative art, making real through reference rather than explicit visuals, and this film does an excellent job achieving this end.  It is a fantastic anti-war propaganda vehicle, and I hope that everyone sees it.

Rating:  4.2 out of 5 Oly Stubbies.

Film Haiku:  Sunlight through glasses
              "I'm going, God be with you."
                 Snowballs through desert.


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