Sunday, January 21, 2007

The Feel Good Movie of 2007!!

OK, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib is absolutely NOT going to be the feel good movie of 2007. Or any other year for that matter. But it is one of those “important” movies (documentary, actually). You need to see this movie. Especially if you are an American, I think. We Americans did a very bad thing over there, and at the very least, we need to understand what happened. The movie doesn’t explain everything, (nothing could, really), but it’s a step in the right direction.

I don’t normally review movies on this site because A) with sixteen kids at home, Reha and I rarely get out to watch current movies and B) I usually only like movies with lasers and robots or comedies. (Yeah, I liked Serenity and I’m a Star Wars dweeb and I once thought Fletch was sublime, so sue me.)

Anyway, Rory Kennedy has made an excellent and above all, important, documentary of the fiasco of Abu Ghraib. She traces what happened at Abu Ghraib back to 9/11 and interviews both detainees and their US captors. Reminded me of a great article I read in Harper’s about the link between the CIA, the Guantánamo Bay prison, 9/11 and Abu Ghraib.

It’s going to be on HBO at the end of February, I think. Set your TiVO, VCR or whatever device you use and record it. If it comes to your local cineplex, get a sitter or whatever, grab someone and go see it.  Watch it and then prepared to be shocked and appalled and chagrinned.

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