Saturday 29 March 2014

Blind Flight

(2003)

RATING:80%
FORMAT:DVD

Strangely-comic and well-acted look at the incarceration of two foolish White Westerners; working in a known danger area (The Lebanon) taken hostage. Too naïve to understand that in modern war, no adults are innocent, so both the armed and the unarmed alike are all in harm’s way.

The movie focuses more on the stress of both captors and captives, along with the bizarre politics of claiming the West will not appease terrorists when the West, itself, has masochistically created the very terrorism it claims is asking to be appeased. (There is no example in history of terrorists getting what they want and then asking for more.)

A more personal than political film but, that meager context notwithstanding, the similarities between the British occupation of Northern Ireland and Western interference in the Middle East are well made.

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