Reel Politique: Movie Review, No End in Sight
Charles Ferguson’s No End in Sight is only the latest in a long (and futile?) series of editorializing documentaries that take on the Bush Administration and the war in Iraq.
But if you think you’ve seen enough movies on the subject, you’re wrong. This film, which opened this weekend at the Cinema 21 in Portland, is slightly different. The director chooses to focus on three months in 2003 during which the Bush Administration made most of the bad decisions we are now living with. These decisions include allowing post-invasion looting of the cities, disbanding the Iraq army, and substituting career diplomats and military men who knew the region and the language with “Brownie” level cronies. Ferguson is a computer millionaire who has taken his millions and invested it in a contribution to the public dialogue, like Andrew Jarecki, the Moviefone guy who took his millions and made Capturing the Friedmans. Ferguson has made a thoughtful, detailed movie that is a must see, especially now where there is even less hope for an end in sight.
August 11th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Until it is as clear to the public at large as it is to the readers of Thomas Ricks’ Fiasco (now being taught at the Army War College no less!) that the decision to drive the Iraqi military underground by disbanding it in 2003 was possibly the single most costly mistake in American military history, there can never be enough films on the subject.
November 12th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
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