Three Kings: An anti-war movie

This is a link to a critical article describing the intention of the David O. Russell in his production Three Kings. The author of the article, David Edelstein, a film critic for Slate.com, states that Russell had interviewed veterans from the first Gulf War. The veterans states that they were sickened as they encouraged Iraqi insurgents to rise-up against Sadaam Hussein and could not intervene when getting slaughtered by him. Edelstein points out that the torture's purpose is to demonstrate, "for the naive American what the Iraqi says is the war's real aim -- protecting oil reserves -- by pouring a ladle of crude down Barlow's throat." The author moves on to say that Russell is doesn't see much of a difference between the Iraqi soldiers and the American soldiers by showing the Iraqis with American products. The article gives more examples to show that Three Kings is an anti-war film.



This picture is a shot after George Clooney's character saved Troy (Mark Wahlberg) from torture.