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Iraq in Fragments a doc that looks at the lives of the average Sunni, Shiite and Kurd in Iraq
2007
Overview
CAPSULE REVIEW - Iraq In Fragments: This documentary, an Academy Award nominee, was filmed over two years on the streets and fields of Iraq. It tells three stories of ordinary Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds as they live amid the indecipherable politics, fundamentalist religion, and tragic history of their country. Filmed in cinema verite fashion, it has a ragged reality that is confounding and moving. It gives no answers, but poses unsettling questions. Rating: three and a half stars out of five - Jay Stone [James Longley] lived and filmed in Iraq from 2003 to 2005 and gets about as close to the ground as you can get. He tells the story in three segments. In the first, we meet an 11-year-old boy named Muhammad. His father is dead, taken away by [Saddam Hussein]'s men for some political crime. He works at an auto repair shop in a crumbling Baghdad, where the owner alternately babies him and beats him. Muhammad has been in Grade 1 for five years and can only just write his name; his boss calls him \"brother of a whore,\" and worse, for his ignorance. Muhammad's story is, if you dwell on it, the story of Iraq's future. Its present comes in the conversations of the old men outside the cafe who ask, \"The humanitarian aid they talk about, where is it? Did you get some?\"
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Postmedia Network Inc
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