ericrwiksten

This may be the best biographical film I have seen in years. This is the story of Margaret Moth, a bohemian woman who was a cameraman for CNN, obsessed with filming the truth.

The reason this is so incredible that all the warzones she filmed in are either still hot or moved down the road, but the realities are the same - dead innocents and no resolutions. She risked her life, and paid the price, for presenting to the world the ugliness of war we in America are all shielded from.

She was part Anais Ninn, part Grace Slick, part Ernie Pyle and one hundred percent original. A child from hard circumstances and a lady tougher than coffin nails. After seeing this, I can't imagine anyone not wanting to have met this incredible woman.

I find it difficult to describe how awful this film is. The characters are all one dimensional, the enemy (German troops) is portrayed as incompetent boobs, and the dialogue is shallow.

In supposedly hot combat zones, American soldiers discuss whether an officer is dead or not while the Germans assemble to machine gun them down, but to no avail, one of the good guys sneaks up behind and kills all them! Then calmly goes about his day.

Dialogue is all trite, filled with cliches and old, tiring stories that have been done a dozen times before, with some minor change. Truthfully, this production was more like the "Apocalypse Now" production done in Rushmore than an actual war film.