Three Kings

This article written by Lila Kitaef is focus on many three distinct points about David O'Russell's film, The Three Kings. The three topics that Kitaef discusses are Non-oppositional critique of the Gulf War, The Gulf War on film, and Three Kings: neocolonial Arab representation. I found that the Non-oppositional critique of the Gulf War most interesting because Kitaef discusses what influenced the movie and also discusses how the O'Russell's film does not make a clear critique on the gulf war itself. Kitaef argues that "Three Kings does not offer this sort of explanatory critique. Instead, the film presents the protagonists as coming to a realization that the United States has failed to save Iraq and destroy Hussein’s regime." This is a very interesting article to read after viewing the film in order to create new ideas about the film that one has not thought about.