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Issue: Autumn, 2009


Body of Lies movie review

Our world, as we know it, is a lot simpler to put to an end than you might think.

Terrorism and and deeply entrenched lack of compassion exists on both sides of the "war on terrorism". Any thinking person knows that the rhetoric from all sides is subjective and intensely subjective.

People get tired of a moment's silence at a ballgame, they just want it to be over.

Body of Lies is a dark film on a dark subject. Men act without conscience claiming they are on the side of the "angels". Amusing really, since no-one has seen them. This film, of course, is not amusing.

Movie poster, Body of Lies; Festivale film review

Movie poster, Body of Lies; Festivale film review

Trust no one. Deceive everyone.

Roger Ferris (di Caprio) opens the film on the line with his boss back home (Russell Crowe). A quick interrogation and a promise are rapidly followed by a bullet in the brain and a promotion. Getting the job done and getting ahead are everything to these men who have shrugged off the concept of a moral compass.

In a modern-day espionage story, there is no Audrey Hepburn in designer dresses and smooth suave Cary Grant, but instead drab clothes and dark deeds, lots of pyrotechnics and dead bodies.

A man is not his job.

But he is what is does in the name of it.

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by Ali Kayn
Due for Australian release 9 Oct 2008
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Title: Body of Lies (2008)
Written by: William Monahan (scr); David Ignatius (novel)
Directed by: Ridley Scott
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The Players: Leonardo Di Caprio; Russell Crowe, Vince Colosimo


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