Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Talk to an Iraqi

We watched a short film in class called "Talk to an Iraqi" this short film (very short) is about an Iraqi immigrant that comes to the United States and using his little man - made hut tries to talk and converse to different Americans about the situation in Iraq, and see the point of view of Americans when it came to the war in Iraq. In the short film we see various point of views of many Americans, often time these views were ignorant and without facts. This short film like many film before tries to exploit the ignorance of many Americans that quite frankly dont know anything about Iraq and its situation. I understand that the film is suppose to be spontaneous but i feel that quite frankly it exploited many ignorant thoughts and quite absurd thoughts that many Americans have towards Iraq. Ofcourse this has been done before, where a director or camera crew has the opportunity to speak and ask an American difficult questions about many issues this may be war in the middle east, foreign policies, political scenarios etc.. etc.. Sometimes you get to see a lot of ignorant and stupid answers from americans which depicts americans as "ignorant and idiotic" people. The truth to the matter is i wish that the film director of "Talk to an Iraqi" would have taken the time to actually talk to a Professor or a professional about the situation in Iraq. I guarantee you that he was not going to get an ignorant answer. But i was thinking if an American goes to Iraq with the same exact idea of bringing a little hut with a sign that read "Speak with an American" what kind of reaction would the american have gotten in Iraq??

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