A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.
Full Metal Postmodernism
With a heavy-handed screenplay, clichéd soldier acting that would be overly mannered for a Call of Duty cutscene and crude attempts to emulate an Arabic news network and various mid-2000s websites... it felt like something between sophomoric agitprop and an outdated 'multimedia' installation at an art gallery. I also have a big issue with the film's implication that the primary problem with the United States' wars in the post-9/11 era was the psychopathology and atrocities of individual soldiers, rather than the wars to begin with… but hey. Whilst I would like to make a joke about the fact that Jean Baudrillard died the same year this came out, I do think this film's political and parodic intentions were better than that, it just didn't come out quite right, despite some obvious fails (such as the heavy-handed symbolism of those ants overpowering a scorpion). Oh, one last thing: the look and feel of Marine Blix (yes, really) is surely a nod to Sergeant Joker in Kubrick's classic.
