This is yet
another movie that literally glues your pupils to it, it shows in a very direct
and simple way (with
a great cast of well-known and very good actors: Leonardo Di Caprio and Russel
Crowe) the complete
inability of our country, with our great army, intelligence (C.I.A. and satellite
imaging) to
understand what these “holy warriors” - who believe that their God is Allah – want
to do and how they plan to do it.
Leonardo Di
Caprio plays the role of the field agent who tries to collect information from
Al Qaeda through his attempt to become trustworthy – almost as a friend – with one
of the leaders of the Syrian intelligence, while Russel Crowe id the Langley
based C.I.A. member whose incompetence has him being seen on the phone with his
field agent, while he’s either preparing his children for school or at a soccer
game they are in.
To me this
movie is a big (and hard) slap on the face of our military top
management dealing with our war in that part of the world, how can decisions –
big and small – be taken by some guy while he’s taking pictures of his children
as they play soccer?
I can’t
think of any better way to ridicule how these “high level” people involved in liberating,
civilizing and restructuring people who happen to be living over the biggest
oil fields in the world.
My advice
here is to watch this movie with your family (as I wish I could) and talk about its meaning that teaches
important concepts to our youth, therefore I give my 2 thumbs up and I don’t
advise to drink any alcohol because the exchange of thoughts (or discussion) that this movie surely prompts needs
to have clarity of mind.
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