I enjoyed or rather appreciated this film from beginning to end. I'm not particularly a fan of Keira Knightley, but here she pulls off a stunning performance. All of the cast members seem to have been asked to downplay their own role or its significance and that makes the film even more compelling because less hollywoodish. The film doesn't portray Katherin Gun as a heroine, but rather as a scared woman that feels compelled to do what's morally right, regardless of the personal ordeal she has to face due to her indiscretion.
We are now into the seventeenth year of the Iraqi war, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, and almost 5000 soldiers from the coalition of the willing have died, and after watching this film you still wonder how Blair, Bush, Cheney, Lord Goldmsmith and all the other politicians that promoted this illegal war are still allowed to walk freely and have never been indicted for anythying. Instead they are invited on talk shows. Shameful.
This film clearly shows that Western democracies are at times no better than the governments of the oppressed countries they claim to set free. The only difference is that Western democracies allow for a movie industry and a freedom of press that expose these atrocities committed in the name of goo.
We are now into the seventeenth year of the Iraqi war, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, and almost 5000 soldiers from the coalition of the willing have died, and after watching this film you still wonder how Blair, Bush, Cheney, Lord Goldmsmith and all the other politicians that promoted this illegal war are still allowed to walk freely and have never been indicted for anythying. Instead they are invited on talk shows. Shameful.
This film clearly shows that Western democracies are at times no better than the governments of the oppressed countries they claim to set free. The only difference is that Western democracies allow for a movie industry and a freedom of press that expose these atrocities committed in the name of goo.