BODY OF LIES


Watched this yesterday. Interesting movie, and while several parts deviate from logic or reality, the fabric holds in its desire to communicate the sound of feet on the ground in the middle east. In a very large sense, it reinforces the haplessness of invading forces fighting enemies who use entirely different playing fields ... technology Vs old-world intelligence, radar Vs handwritten notes etc.

Some action scenes are quite outstanding, the most memorable one being the gunfight at the abandoned desert house where evidence is in the process of being destroyed. You almost want to wipe the mud from your face when it ends, much like the ambush scene in Saving Private Ryan.

Dicaprio is good without being spectacular, while Russell Crowe is effortless and convincing. Well, that said, after watching Dicaprio in The Departed, it would have to be a monumental performance if he were to surpass himself.

As an aside, after eons, G catches me on chat and asks how I was.
"Like I always say, I remember having been better :-)" said I.

Memory is such a wonderful thing, always distorting the present and the future stripping away objectivity at all times with tints in lenses that seem to fade very slowly indeed.

Au revoir.