I watched the preview clips of this film and found it very interesting and touching. Are there people in the movie who say things were better under the old regime? Yes. But among those interviewed are also young boys and girls who perhaps for the first time feel hopeful about their futures...a simple question like, "when you are grown to be a man, what do you want to be..." brought a lump to my throat. The boys and girls answered, "An engineer!" "A doctor!" "A teacher!" "I need a husband!"
Yes, it's a frightening time for them right now...hard for the unemployed or under-employed former professionals, for the widows and orphans and the struggling families who have lost their homes and livelihood. But the film looks like yet another proof that the human spirit is indomitable and rises to these kinds of challenges. While I disagree with some of the religious beliefs in this region and the resulting destructive behavior that brought war back to their doorsteps, I see beauty in the lives and faces of these ordinary people and I have hopes that this first taste of freedom will inspire the kind of changes that can turn their homeland around for the better.
God Bless the people who gave out those cameras and the Iraqis who chose to share their lives with us!!! Please Freepers, keep this story bumped up...send it to everybody...get talk radio talking about it! This is, at long last, some good news out of Iraq and that's good news for President Bush! God Bless You All!