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...EB: Yes, ranged against the rebels now you have a small government army, the Kamajor militiamen, the various U.N. detachments, some Nigerian army units and a detachment of British paratroopers. The big surprise is that Colonel Koroma has switched sides this time, and is fighting to defend the government. But the problem is there may be doubts over how long he'll stay aboard if the other side appears to get the upper hand and he's offered a deal. So it's total chaos: The U.N. doesn't even know where its own people are, the government troops...
...EB: No, I stayed up the whole night filing. I was the only American journalist there, and there were four others from other countries. At least 10 journalists had already been killed, and most reporters had left the scene...
...EB: Yes, but only by accompanying an ECOMOG patrol that was fighting its way back into downtown. It was too risky to move around alone. After a couple of days the Nigerian troops got their act together and began to retake the city, street by street, in one of the most brutal campaigns I've ever seen. The problem was that nobody knew who the rebels were. Many of them had sneaked into the city unarmed, by joining refugee columns. Then they'd collected weapons that had been stashed in Freetown and simply went berserk. At a certain point...
...EB: That it is a film like no other. It is a very rich movie, and you'll see things that you'll have seen nowhere else, representations that you will not come across in any other movie. That is something that Harmony and the Dogme movement strive for. They attempt to make something genuinely...
...EB: I've read some reviews that are good, some that are terrible. There's a nervousness because it's unconventional. But I think overall people take the film seriously. In my opinion, Harmony is the premier artist of our time...