![]() ![]() “Kabul, Afghanistan-4 in the morning,” his weary voice confides over a sinister drumbeat, as he’s shown in the back seat of chauffeured sedan, his tense, bearded, grim face sheathed in chiaroscuro. The only thing missing is a hand-rolled cigarette. It opens June 7.ĭirected by Richard Rowley and co-written and narrated by Scahill, the film follows the conventions of a Raymond Chandler detective thriller, with Scahill as a hipster Philip Marlowe, discovering one disturbing detail after another until the full enormity of the conspiracy is revealed. motives and actions in the so-called war on terror, it is emotionally involving, a skillful piece of polemical moviemaking. While his documentary Dirty Wars, based on his recently published book of the same name, is predictably scornful of U.S. ![]() Scahill is also-to give him his due-an adventurous war correspondent who has spent much of the last decade courting danger in the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. ![]()
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