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Iraq in Fragments (2006) -- Stories from modern day Iraq as told by Iraqis living in a time of war, occupation and ethnic tension.
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19 January 2007 (UK) more
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Stories from modern day Iraq as told by Iraqis living in a time of war, occupation and ethnic tension. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 10 wins & 4 nominations more
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Outside the Green Zone, At Last more (18 total)

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Mohammed Haithem ... Himself
Suleiman Mahmoud ... Himself
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94 min
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The film was originally intended as a multi-part series on Iraq but was later shortened into a single film when the country became too dangerous to work in. more
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Featured in The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007) (TV) more

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Outside the Green Zone, At Last, 10 November 2006
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Author: bluesdoctor from A Place is Just A Place

Iraq as refracted in practically all American media is not Iraq per se, but America in Iraq. "Gunner's Palace," for instance, isn't about Iraq, but about how some metal-head American soldiers experience it. The so-called "news" about Iraq is served up by a press core which barely ventures outside the Green Zone, let alone Baghdad. Which is what makes this movie so outstanding.

You sit there and wonder, "How did they ever get this footage?" Gunfire pops in the background, buildings burn, women and children run for cover. You're thrown into the midst of al Sadr's mobs, self-flagellating to the point of drawing blood, droning in unison like a headless monster, and descending on a market, beating the men in its path indiscriminately. It's so raw, so unedited, so slice-of-life, in other words, utterly unlike the self-referential media-for-media's sake, the prepackaged rant and cant of news-speak served up daily by the likes CNN, NPR, and the NY Times.

The movie has a well-thought out unity, a message not reducible to the congealed positions of the media, thus invisible to it. One unifying theme, for example, is democracy, vilified by the Islamisists, dreamt about by the Kurds. But because there's no narration, no talking heads, the connections come unannounced, naturally, as in life.

The disparate lives of children, Sunni and Kurdish, bookend the movie, start and end it. The children speak in unadorned poetry.

Please, by all means, seek out this film, see it for yourself, if possible without preconception, and make up your own mind.

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