Eugene Jarecki did a great job with The Trials of Henry Kissinger and Why We Fight was not a disappointment. Using military and government personnel in interviews and clips from historical and modern news footage, Jarecki craftily shows that in terms of foreign policy, militarism and the military industrial complex, we are dangerously careening down the wrong path and this is something that we were specifically warned against decades ago. He explains that this situation that we find ourselves in politically right now, (with an idiot in the White House and the media turning a blind eye to his law-breaking, election stealing and nepotism, with war becoming the only way we relate to the rest of the world, and the people feeling powerless) is dire and we must rise up in outrage now or all might be lost.
The most devastating moment for me: A montage showing Iranians marching in our HONOR after September 11th. Now we are close to dropping bombs on them in our unbridled quest for power in the Middle East.
Jesus when are we going to get mad?
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Saturday, February 04, 2006
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut is great -- I'd call it a modern western. It feels like Jones is acting in his own skin. Characters are real and complex. Everyone is good and bad. Everyone is somewhat crazy. I am not sure it needed to be as gross as it was in a few scenes. It felt a little like Weekend at Bernies sometimes, but it's forgiven. The story is strong, well told and I enjoyed it.
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