Green Zone
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In 2003 the US military entered Baghdad. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) is there searching for weapons of mass destruction. He’s one of the good guys. He tells us again and again, “I’m here to save lives.” We know why Roy Miller is in Iraq, but the question Green Zone asks is, why is the US military there?
Green Zone was advertised as Jason Bourne in Iraq. It’s not. Yes it has Matt Damon, and yes it’s directed by Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum), but ChiefWarrant Officer Roy Miller isn’t an international super-spy, he’s a soldier. He can’t kill eight people with his bare hands and he can’t disappear into a crowd.
Instead, Roy Miller wants to know why he’s been getting bad intelligence. The Pentagon tells him where to look for weapons of mass destruction, and they’re wrong every time. Finding an ally in CIA Agent Martin Brown, Miller investigates further; tracking down the top-secret source, code-named Magellan, who’s been leading him in circles.
Of course, seven years after Green Zone takes place, we know why Miller never found any WMDs; they were never there to begin with. Greg Kinnear plays Clark Poundstone, fictional Pentagon Liaison and giant sleazebag, who’s there so we have someone to blame.Green Zone has already begun to accumulate criticism, but Roy Miller’s the good guy in this movie, not the United States.
Green Zone isn’t a great action movie, and it’s not an epic war film. Green Zone isn’t even a very good conspiracy movie. We already know how it ends. But that’s kind of the point. If everything goes according to plan, the United States will supposedly be out of Iraq in August, and as we hopefully draw nearer to the end, it’s important for us to remember why we began the war. Because ChiefWarrant Officer Roy Miller is right, the reasons why we go to war are important. Green Zone tells us what we already know, but it’s something we need to be reminded of nonetheless.
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