Hollywood Launches New Offensive In The War Of Terror
It has been six years since the terror attacks of 9/11 and now Hollywood has decided to launch a new offensive in the War On Terror. Recent film release The Kingdom is a Saudi terrorist drama which brings with it a new wave of films that examine and criticise America’s hunt for its enemies.
Immediately after September 11, documentary after documentary was released showing the repercussions of the attacks and we were left wondering when Hollywood would catch up.
Now, six years on, they have with numerous movies being released this year all in the same vein as The Kingdom.
One of the releases is In The Valley of Elah, a murder drama set among US soldiers who have returned from Iraq. Star of the film, Tommy Lee Jones has said,
“The big question is inescapable, you’re going to have to face it sooner or later, and that question is have we allowed ourselves to become involved in a fraudulent war?”
Many actors have supported the same view as Tommy Lee Jones, although it doesn’t lie well with the pro-war politics of middle America.
Redacted, a film centred on propaganda around the war, has already been slammed in the United States although the films director, Brian de Palma, is quick to defend the movie,
“It isn’t really criticising the troops. I’m trying to show the circumstances in which they are existing, and why these horrendous things occur. I am trying to serve both sides of the story, because that is the reality.”
Other films that are set for release in the coming weeks are Tom Cruise’s film Lions For Lambs, a political drama about US military action in Afghanistan, Battle for Haditha, a dramatisation of a massacre of Iraqis by US forces and Rendition.
Rendition follows the story of an American woman seeking answers over the disappearance of her Egyptian-born husband, a terrorist suspect, who is imprisoned and tortured.
Although these films may ease Hollywood’s conscience, but it’s unlikely that they will become blockbusters.
Nikki Rocco, head of distribution for Universal (makers of The Kingdom) has said,
“If you’re going to tell stories like this, you’re going to tell stories of what’s actually going on in our world. It’s very difficult, challenging subject matter. Either you’re going to like this kind of movie or you’re not.”
What do you think about movies that touch such a raw nerve?
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It’s about time Hollywood grew the cojones to confront this criminal cabal forcing their fraud on the American people, with their blood soaked conquest abroad and police state tyranny at home.
It literally makes me SICK that Hollywood (ahem….) is making money off the death and destruction of entire countries.
Let them all burn in hell. Denzel too for agreeing to star in such trash.
Hollywood has made movies for little boy wannabe soldiers such as the awful Top Gun. It also makes false films about history like Black Hawk down-where American aggression was exposed. USA cannot deny that they helped create the Killing Fields in Cambodia (killing one in three) and creating the conditions for genocide. USA does not want to confront it’s well documented ugly past and instead prefer light films that show off special effects and not real history.