The Situation (2006/I)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.4/10   

Director:

Philip Haas

Guionista:

Wendell Steavenson (writer)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

The story of an American journalist, a CIA operative, and an Iraqi photographer against the backdrop of the bloody war in Iraq.

Plot Keywords:

Iraq War | Subtitles | Beautiful Woman

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Well-said and well-done.

Reparto

Connie Nielsen	...	Anna Molyneux
Damian Lewis	...	Dan Murphy
Mido Hamada	...	Zaid
Driss Roukhe	...	Walid (as Driss Roukh)
Nasser Memarzia	...	Rafeeq
Saïd Amadis	...	Mayor Tahsin
Omar Berdouni	...	Bashar
Chérine Amar	...	Noor
Shaun Evans	...	Wesley
Thomas McCarthy	...	Major Hanks (as Tom McCarthy)
Mahmoudi M'Barek	...	Colonel Jobouri
John Slattery	...	Colonel Carrick
Peter Eyre	...	US Ambassador
Fatiha Watili	...	Samira
Hamid Basket	...	Selim

También conocida como:

Estado de alerta (Argentina) (DVD title) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and a scene of sexuality.

Duración:

111 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Arabe

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

USA:R | Argentina:16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Morocco

Compañía:

Red Wine Pictures

Banda de Sonido:

Giant Lizard

Well-said and well-done.

This film sums up what I have come to believe about the war in Iraq, and does it very well. Almost all of the other comments on it in this forum are accurate, in my estimation. It's remarkable that so much was accomplished with so little money-roughly one percent of the budget of Apocalypse Now, for example. The production values are so high in most respects that I have to conclude that the confusing ambient sound track was a conscious choice of the director's. The story is told, at times, from the viewpoint of the Iraqi characters, a remarkable feat in itself. At least a third of the dialogue is in Arabic, with subtitles. Like "Three Kings", the film shows the Iraqis not as villains or caricatures, but just as people stuck in a crummy situation for which America is responsible. One of the other reviewers quotes Damien Lewis' character stating the basic premise of the film:"There is no truth, you know....It's just that the truth shifts according to each person you talk to." The reviewer came close, but he missed one line that summed up The Situation for me: "...because the truth is covered over with layers of agenda."

Finally, if, ten or fifteen years from now, anyone is still interested in what was going on in the American war in Iraq, this film stands as the most convincing description I've seen.