{"id":712,"date":"2010-04-18T20:45:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T20:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=712"},"modified":"2010-04-20T02:53:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T21:23:21","slug":"green-zone-the-film-and-the-truth-about-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/green-zone-the-film-and-the-truth-about-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Zone the film and the truth about Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw Paul Greengrass&#8217;s  Green Zone, which says it is inspired by Rajiv Chandrasekharan&#8221;s  &#8221; Imperial life in the Emerald City&#8221;. Which is a terrific book. The film may have been inspired by something in the book, but Matt Damon&#8217;s character was certainly inspired by the character in Bourne Identity.<br \/>\nCinematically brilliant (like the Hurt Locker), but when will Hollywood stop trivializing something as serious as the stunning loss of innocent lives in Iraq. Do we have to have a brilliant directors like Paul Greengrass (remember Bloody Sunday) make a carefully and obviously plotted action film disguised as serious cinema ?<br \/>\nWant to know the truth ? Watch carefully this video from Wikileaks. It is disturbing.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ye6r7bl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw Paul Greengrass&#8217;s Green Zone, which says it is inspired by Rajiv Chandrasekharan&#8221;s &#8221; Imperial life in the Emerald City&#8221;. Which is a terrific book. The film may have been inspired by something in the book, but Matt Damon&#8217;s character was certainly inspired by the character in Bourne Identity. 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