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...chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, did you feel you did enough to help South Africa move past that dark chapter in its history...
...building, it drew the severe black box of Mies van der Rohe into the setback forms of older skyscrapers like the Empire State Building. Graham's personal philosophy was as direct as his architecture. Buildings, he once said, should be "clear, free of fashion and simple statements of the truth...
Storytellers are of course free to spin fiction from historical fact. But what Greengrass does here, unlike in his scrupulous docudrama about the seizing of United Flight 93 on 9/11, is resolve thorny foreign policy issues from 2003 with 2010 hindsight and the truth-seeking missile of an action-hero superman...
Greengrass might say you have to twist the facts to tell the truth, and his film does get to the heart of obfuscation in the early occupation of Iraq. Besides, in movies, entertainment trumps ethics. Green Zone has a fullness of character, a density of detail, a cunning mystery plot and so much stuff blowing up that audiences might not realize they're seeing an Iraq-war film. They'll be too scared stiff enjoying themselves...
TIME says "research conclusively shows that vaccines are safe for children." I recall my father, a biologist, insisting that science can prove falsity but not truth. As Albert Einstein said, "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong...