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...danger is that the victims of the world's worst crimes are lost in all this noise. In Sudan's case, that would be the 300,000 dead and 2.7 million who have been forced to flee their homes in Darfur. Global justice might be tough to implement. Those figures are why it's worth trying...
...story will soon turn out. The documentary was shot by two crews - one in Sderot and one in Gaza - between October and December last year, ending just four days before Israel unleashed on Gaza its fiercest bombing campaign in decades. The attack left an estimated 1,300 Palestinians dead and sent residents in nearby Sderot scrambling into underground shelters. But the subjects in Gaza-Sderot remain blissfully unaware of the looming disaster; there is little talk of politics at all. Instead, people go about their humdrum lives: a slender young man frets over his mediocre boxing skills in a Sderot...
...over within a week, and Nixon was elected to a third term. The Watchmen were feted everywhere, until Nixon turned on his old abettors and outlawed the whole crew. By 1985, America was an open sewer of drugs and porn, and the Comedian was defeated, defenestrated, dead. (See pictures of Watchmen...
...Vendetta), Moore has declined screen credit on the Watchmen movie. But whatever his thoughts on the corruptive properties of cinema, he could have found no more devoted Watch-man than Snyder. The ultimate fetishist-auteur, he takes hallowed pulp artifacts - the '70s horror movie Dawn of the Dead, the Frank Miller graphic novel 300 and now this - and films them with the near-fanatic fidelity of someone constructing an Eiffel Tower replica out of matchsticks...
...danger is that the victims of the world's worst crimes will be lost in all this noise. In Sudan's case, that would be the 300,000 dead and 2.7 million refugees the U.N. has counted in Darfur. Global justice might be tough to implement. Those figures are why it's worth trying...