Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon): I thought we were all on the same side.
Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson): Don't be naive.
That exchange pretty much sums up the film's premise. I don't really know how accurate the depictions of the various agendas are and it's not important to me. This is a movie and, as such, it works ... big time. Green Zone is a first-rate thriller. There are two main factions at work throughout the film. One who wants to know the truth and the other who knows it. They are both racing to find the one person who can verify what one faction knows and the other suspects. One wants to talk to him and the other wants to silence him. There's a third main faction that appears toward the end and I will not spoil it. Green Zone doesn't have the same buzz about it as The Hurt Locker did last year and it surely doesn't have as cool a title but it's every bit as good a film. I loved it. Highly recommended.
5 song iTune shuffle from the CrabAppleLane Five Star playlist:
- The Weight - The Band - Music from Big Pink
- Black Betty - Ram Jam - Ram Jam
- Jane - Jefferson Starship - Freedom at Point Zero
- Fall Down - Toad the Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea
- Happy Home - Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Quote of the Day
Genetic engineers, move over: the latest scheme for creating children to a parent’s specifications requires no DNA tinkering, but merely giving mom a steroid while she’s pregnant, and presto—no chance that her daughters will be lesbians or (worse?) ‘uppity.’
Sharon Begley, Newsweek
Blog of the day is here.
Quote from said blog: "So the Falcon Club endures the suspicions of Iraqi soldiers at Mosul’s innumerable checkpoints who have never heard of a paraglider, have never seen a hot air balloon outside of an American movie and who believe — reasonably — that Iraq is dangerous enough without courting death."
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"One who wants to know the truth and the other who knows it."
You know, the older I get the more I think that "the truth" is highly overrated.
Not only overrated, Dave, but more than a little nebulous.
I'm looking forward to seeing the Hurt Locker - will add this one to my DVD list too...
you're right about the moviemakers having to hook the customer in in the first five minutes to pander to payperview - it'll change things but I don't think this will necessarily make for good films though. Sometimes a slow boil is much better!
Both are great movies, Fi.
I'm hoping we're wrong about the free previews, Fi. That first five minutes could go a number of ways and I'm hoping no one is thinking about changing a film to put something in those minutes or take something out. There is an event in the first five minutes of The Book Of Eli, which I still haven't seen yet, and that event assured that I will have to watch it alone if I ever decide to see it.