Judgement of the director/producer /movie gods

Just so you know the movie strongly suggests that that Iraqi soldiers took Kuwaiti babies out of hospital incubators and left them to die in agony on hospital floors but this is false. A disclaimer is put up at the very, very end of the credits. I watched the DVD and had to look for it once I learned about it from the commentary by the director. The director did not seem upset by this fact. I would have been livid.

If I had been the director or producer and this was my completed film, I would have insisted that disclaimer go up before the audience knew the movie was over- in other words so they would see it! For a fact based movie that really violated my faith as a viewer. Why should I trust this guy with any other truth? I didn't. Just like they say in court, "are you lying now or were you lying then?"


This and many other details speaks to the dishonesty of the director et al, and this strikes a fatal emotional blow to the truth of the film.
The more the director talks in the commentary about what his intentions were with each particular sequence the weaker the film appears.

Nonetheless there are some remarkable performances by the three leads, some great dialogue by Shanley, and also quite a few utterly unnecessary bits of dialogue that leaves one wondering what these lines are doing being left in the final cut; apparently the director worked as an editor originally.

Oh well, movie making ain't easy. This is a miss, and with all that talent and a pretty decent script too. Damn!

In the end, who cares if CNN makes Ted Turner another billion dollars? Nobody! Not. The. Point.

This is from Wikipedia;

"The movie received some criticism for its inclusion of the journalists' attempt to investigate claims that infants were being removed from their incubators in Iraqi hospitals. The scene in the movie suggests doctors were trying to hide something, but it was later determined that the allegations were untrue. A disclaimer was added to later broadcasts and the home video version."



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