In this time of war (as
usual) here’s yet another movie about smart American soldiers who want to
profit from their being deployed in a very far and inferior (to us) land.
Aside from what you can read
in the review sites I link below, this movie is (in my brain injured opinion) a good
description of our capitalistic culture that tells – no matter the situation –
to find a way to profit and have your pockets filled with valuables, no matter
the cost.
The cast is very well chosen
with actors who are very well known but who aren’t usually action-soldiers.
However, this doesn’t take
anything away from the story of this movie where the millions of $$$ in gold
bars, originally from Kuwait are moved around the desert driving Rolls Royce,
Mercedes and Bentley card on the desert’s sands.
No matter the conditions of
both the country and the war, all seems to rotate around the ownership of such
richness, mothers, wives and young children too are killed just to protect and
ensure the ownership of stolen wealth, that can’t help anyone in any way.
This movie is again a very
well made picture of the very reason why we’ve been living in such economic and
financial crisis, when even simple soldiers in combat in a very far and
uncivilized land decide that what’s most important (above their lives) is to go back
home as wealthy people, any viewer can see and immediately understand where
this financial crisis comes from. The world system of production, based on
capitalism and free competition, has now found an impenetrable wall represented
by the limits of available resources and the sustainable exploitation of these
resources. For example, fishing and pollution have led to the decimation of
fish in the seas, including the Pacific Ocean .
The right thing to do would be to set limits and rules in the world to exploit
these resources sustainably, limiting waste. But any regulation is seen as a
restriction incompatible with the savage capitalism supported in most of the
world.
As a Ph.D. in economics I
could rite an entire book on the reasons that explain not only our (USA) financial crisis but also about the soon
upcoming financial crisis in EU too and what consequences we are going to have
once our currency will return to be very strong while the European markets will
close their doors to US products because unaffordable.
- http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/three-kings-1999
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120188/
- http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/three_kings/
- http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E04E6DD123EF932A35753C1A96F958260
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