Sunday 15 January 2012

The documentary cover above is of a film called Iraq in fragments. On the cover there is a mid shot of a boy dressed in white looking pretty worried and half of his face in light and the other in dark. whilst a building is burning in the background, and black smoke leaving the burning building and a small back of red fire in the middle of the black smoke. The black smoke is flying off into the pure blue sky.

The title of the film has the connotations that Iraq is like a puzzle because it is in "fragments" and needs to be put back together. A different interpretation of this is that Iraq has been blown into pieces, and is only a fraction of what it used to be, this would tie into the picture because of the burning building in the background. Another interpretation could be that the boy has put the the building on fire and is fleeing from the scene, and with the title it could mean that the Iraq people are the ones destroying the country.

The use of the young boy show innocence and that the bombing or fragmentation of the nation has caused innocent deaths and injuries. The boy looks scared and that could be showing how the country feels because of all the things that are going wrong with the country. Half of the boys face is in light and the other half is in darkness. This could show that they boy is innocent now but because of how his country is being destroyed he might 'go to the dark side' pardon the cliche. By the dark side I mean terrorism and trying to blow up American and British troops that are in Iraq or maybe even innocent people of Iraq.

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