perseus
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I have just seen the award winning Film Battle for Haditha last night depicting the Iraq civilian massacre. The improvised dialogue but following allegedly real events made it compelling viewing.
This makes me wonder if this is the tip of the iceberg and such incidents are more commonplace with little being learned since the My Lai incident. On the other hand perhaps its impossible to stop this 'occasional' sort of incident with hardened combatants?
2008 is the intended release date of Battle for Haditha, a film that portrays the Haditha massacre, directed by UK film-maker Nick Broomfield and starring Elliot Ruiz as Cpl. Ramirez, a good Marine who loses his composure after watching a friend die. The film also features Jase Willette as Pfc. Cuthbert, the young Marine whose death sets off the chain of events that become the Haditha Massacre. Yasmine Hanani stars as Hiba, a young Iraqi woman stuck in the middle of the chaos, Eric Mehalacopoulos as the no non-sense Sgt. Ross, Falah Flayla as a former Iraqi Army Officer turned insurgent, and Thomas Hennessy as a Navy Corpsman assigned to Kilo company. Haditha assembles a cast that includes former U.S. Marines and Iraqi refugees.
In it, an angry but honorable Iraqi man is driven to revenge and joins an insurgency against an occupying army. Frightened villagers let him plant a bomb targeting a passing military convoy. An exemplary Marine, infuriated by the death of a cherished comrade, opens fire on the villagers, killing innocents.
The film was shot in an unconventional way whereas instead of a detailed script, there was only an outline of each scene and where the story was going. Actors would then improvise much of the dialogue based on Broomfield's instructions. The film has been picked up for international sales by Dreamachine and aired on Channel 4 in the UK on March 17, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_killings
This makes me wonder if this is the tip of the iceberg and such incidents are more commonplace with little being learned since the My Lai incident. On the other hand perhaps its impossible to stop this 'occasional' sort of incident with hardened combatants?
2008 is the intended release date of Battle for Haditha, a film that portrays the Haditha massacre, directed by UK film-maker Nick Broomfield and starring Elliot Ruiz as Cpl. Ramirez, a good Marine who loses his composure after watching a friend die. The film also features Jase Willette as Pfc. Cuthbert, the young Marine whose death sets off the chain of events that become the Haditha Massacre. Yasmine Hanani stars as Hiba, a young Iraqi woman stuck in the middle of the chaos, Eric Mehalacopoulos as the no non-sense Sgt. Ross, Falah Flayla as a former Iraqi Army Officer turned insurgent, and Thomas Hennessy as a Navy Corpsman assigned to Kilo company. Haditha assembles a cast that includes former U.S. Marines and Iraqi refugees.
In it, an angry but honorable Iraqi man is driven to revenge and joins an insurgency against an occupying army. Frightened villagers let him plant a bomb targeting a passing military convoy. An exemplary Marine, infuriated by the death of a cherished comrade, opens fire on the villagers, killing innocents.
The film was shot in an unconventional way whereas instead of a detailed script, there was only an outline of each scene and where the story was going. Actors would then improvise much of the dialogue based on Broomfield's instructions. The film has been picked up for international sales by Dreamachine and aired on Channel 4 in the UK on March 17, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_killings
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