Some people have a lot to learn. Matt Damon doesn't. That's a lot of difference and that's why the Born is back. Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon combine as force to prove that truth, sooner or later, allies itself with the omniscient if only because, 'The reasons we go to war are always important.' So Green Zone is a god fearing film. Righteous!
It's 2003 and George 'Double V' Bush declares victory in Iraq. Step Two: decommission the disbanded Iraqi armed forces and hope all professional soldiers will sit on their hands while the Americans continue misunderestimating the reality of WMD's in the large diggable desert local known as Iraq. Matt Damon seems to believe that war in Iraq without WMDs is a fraud. Matt Damon, Democrat, is conservative. An unfeeling liberal might ask a man with one leg, 'When did your leg turn to plastic?' Not Matt Damon, who simply asks, after picking up a prosthetic, 'What happened to your leg?' It's true, Matt Damon may be a bit too preoccupied with being the best conservative he can be, but so long as he's not a warmongering cheater he's a great hero to film, which brings us to the title, 'Green Zone.' It does not necessarily mean the area without stinger missiles. It took a lot of manual labor, magic bullets, and under armored hummers to fortify that fact. So if you enjoyed the bloody chess match of Spartan, the David Mamet noir, you'll get off on this day in the life of a Chief Warrant Officer trying to be the best detective he can be. The call to action is non-stop, the obstacles are many, and the morals are, well, preconceived notions.
In the end, Damon believes surveillance to be the answer to international police actions. Perhaps if the News Corp. was forced to pay the poor soldier on the front lines to wear a video cam to interview an occupied populace, reporting could end the debate over facts, save conscription, take over the entertainment industry, and elevate conversation in the land once again. But the incorporated private interests would be thinking above their pay grade by selling live armed dialogue as democracy to the public, because 'Democracy is messy,' and no one wants to be caught condoning the second amendment just to insure the primacy of the first amendment. After all, in Iraq, the US wasn't staging an imperial coup so much as a temporary hostile takeover and a public buyback replete with youtube razzies. 'What's going to happen the next time we need people to trust us,' asks Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller - perhaps someone with generations of combat interest in the US's aversion to war. If our best is second rate, suggests Green Zone, a humbling lesson in the manifold nature of urban warfare.
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