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Inside the city of Samarra, the fighting has taken on a daily rhythm. In the afternoons, insurgents sling mortars, rockets and bullets into U.S. and Iraqi compounds, usually disappearing in the street before anyone has a chance to kill or wound them. At night, U.S. troops roll from their outpost on the eastern edge of Samarra and search those same streets for fighters moving about laying roadside bombs. They usually find some, and shooting erupts again...
Being in the minority is extremely frustrating, but it reinforces my Republican values. The arrogance of heavy-hearted liberalism leads to heavy-handed laws that kill individual freedom. Meeting other Republicans comforts me in knowing that I am not the only one who opposes big, obtrusive government. Most importantly, working for the Connecticut Republicans invigorates my belief in individual freedom...
...What does this sorry mean?" Asks Takbeer party leader Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai. "They are bombarding villages because they hear the Taliban are there. But this is not the way, to bomb and kill 20 people for one Taliban. This is why people are losing hope and trust in the government and the internationals." Like many Afghans, Ahmadzai is starting to suspect a more sinister meaning behind the recent spate of civilian deaths."The Americans can make a mistake once, twice, maybe three times," he says. "But 20, 30 times? I am not convinced that they are doing this without intention...
What's most deeply pleasurable about You Kill Me is its unique tone. The script by Christopher Marker and Stephen McFeely (who number the rather different Chronicles of Narnia among their credits) is not one that goes for big laughs. It offers, instead, a steady mutter of eccentric situations and, better still, a whole bunch of glum and occasionally desperate characters whose depressive natures are hinted at but never boringly explicated. They appear and disappear rather casually in the story, which the director John Dahl (Red Rock West, The Last Seduction) paces expertly. His film moves not with the speed...
That's the way the best comedies always operate - without for a minute conveying the sense that their makers are aware of how funny they are being. They let us discover their weirdness in our own good time. I don't want to oversell You Kill Me. It is not going to leave you breathless with laughter. But I don't want to undersell it either. For an hour and a half it exerts its own preposterous reality, making you believe it - and like...