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Friday, August 10, 2007
“No End in Sight” lays bare Iraq struggles
Just as the Bush administration lays the groundwork for the mid-September Iraq progress report from Gen. David Petraeus, comes a summer pop-umentary that lays bare the U.S. troubles in the grinding war.
Already showing in Washington and New York, the new movie, “No End in Sight” / opens over the next three weeks in Atlanta, Austin, Texas and more than three dozen other cities.
The film relies on interviews with former administration insiders, journalists, Iraqis and others to tell the story of misteps, mishaps and misfortune behind the costliest U.S. military adventure since Vietnam.
Directed by political scientist and dot-com millionaire Charles Ferguson, the film was awarded a special jury prize for documentary at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Jurors praised it as “a timely work that clearly illuminates the misguided policy decisions that have led to the catastrophic quagmire of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.”
The movie is poised to follow Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” as a catalyst to antiwar sentiment.
Moore brought his edgy style of political documentary into the popular mainstream three years ago, when U.S. support for the effort remained high. Ferguson’s film builds on the genre, but without the theatrics of a Moore production, making careful use of historical context and reminding viewers of the political tone in this country and Iraq in the months leading up to the war.
“Even the style of the film is much different, much more informatory and it doesn’t point a lot of fingers, it just tells the story and the background … and leaves you to decide how to feel about it,” said film publicist Lindsay Currie.
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