This is a compelling and insightful portrait of Iraq in the moments after Saddam has fallen. I approached this film without knowing much of its historical context but still found it absorbing, but I felt that I ought to know much more to really appreciate it. The technique for characterisation is fantastic, all the more amazing on what was presumably a very small team - if that? - and shoestring budget.
The few characters selected to form it drift in and out of view giving the sense that there are many more like them in the crowd but that none will be quite the same...We first approach the scene through the eyes of a child who has at some point lost his father and his sense of melancholy mixed with carefreeness being that young speaks volumes about the minute effects of a catastrophe of this nature and the failure of the American/British 'liberators' to fill the void left by Saddam. Has mood in spades
The few characters selected to form it drift in and out of view giving the sense that there are many more like them in the crowd but that none will be quite the same...We first approach the scene through the eyes of a child who has at some point lost his father and his sense of melancholy mixed with carefreeness being that young speaks volumes about the minute effects of a catastrophe of this nature and the failure of the American/British 'liberators' to fill the void left by Saddam. Has mood in spades