Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most beautiful and terrifying scenes of the movie, we see a cargo truck--loaded with oil? biological weapons? noxious chemicals?--shot to pieces by over-enthusiastic Iraqi National soldiers. Milk spills out of the metal hold of the truck among the people who need it so badly...
...rebel leader, gagged with chicken wire and a wooden block, rush towards his screaming wife and child. He is dragged back, as the Americans watch, paralyzed with indecision, strung between leaving with their precious cargo and forgetting what they have seen, or helping these people escape. As the tortured Iraqi rebel is dragged back, one of Saddam's soldier's kills his wife...
...highlights of the film. He portrays Vig with a sort of unstudied exuberance, post-adolescent can-do hyperactivity, and is earnestly naive without a trace of self-parody. He delivers lines that may be almost trite in their ignorance--for example, when he asks an Iraqi rebel leader, "So, you guys think all Americans are Satan, right?" without betraying anything more improprietary than curiousity. His acting carries some of the less compelling scenes out of their self-conscious didacticism, for example, the inevitable "learning about each other's customs" moments that are inevitable in a movie that portrays the meeting...
...Well, true in a way. It is a movie. It's more like a composite of different experiences that I heard and that intrigued me. For example, there's one scene, you might remember, where there's these two Iraqi hairdressers. And they say, "You know, we don't care if we do it in America or Iraq. We just want to cut hair." I met those people, they were refugee immigrants, and they auditioned for the movie. Unfortunately they were terrible actors, but I added the line...
...Yeah, I think I began to think about the United States, and our role in the world in a different way. During the Gulf War, I don't think I supported Bush's decision to stop the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Now I agree with that. And at the whole time, there was that whole interaction going on, that no one even knew about, with the Iraqi Rebels. And, of course, I think Bush should've kept his promise, and helped the rebels overthrow Saddam like he said he would...