{"id":541,"date":"2005-05-30T16:41:34","date_gmt":"2005-05-30T21:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=541"},"modified":"2005-05-30T16:41:34","modified_gmt":"2005-05-30T21:41:34","slug":"violence-in-dreamland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/violence-in-dreamland\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence in Dreamland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been looking at a DVD that Michael <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0319514\/\">&#8220;Horns and Haloes&#8221;<\/a> Galinsky sent our way called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0452659\/\">Operation: Dreamland<\/a>, a documentary about the day to day lives of foot soldiers in Falluja, Iraq before the clampdown\/invasion of the city. The co-directors, Garrett Scott and Ian Olds, spent 6 weeks with a small group of soldiers letting us get to know them fairly deeply in only 78 minutes. Falluja is realtively calm at this point despite becoming known as a haven for the various enemies. The film is not meant to be political, but I&#8217;m sure that every viewer will find politics somewhere in the film. I dropped the film off for Michael&#8217;s parents to see.<br \/>\nNext, Tucker and I watched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0133093\/\">Matrix<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0234215\/\">Matrix: Reloaded<\/a>. Between viewings, Michael&#8217;s mother, Maeda, stopped me as I was mowing. She asked about the violence in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenhousepictures.com\/newfilms100.html\">the Dreamland documentary<\/a>. How could I answer that question having just been through hours of Matrix? Her friends in the car with her were concerned that there might be unsettling scenes, say a beheading (nope), say explosions (yes but compared to the Matrix not so upsetting), but how to say that the real violence in Iraq paled beside the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000206\/\">Keanu Reeves<\/a> cord-dancing pomposity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been looking at a DVD that Michael &#8220;Horns and Haloes&#8221; Galinsky sent our way called Operation: Dreamland, a documentary about the day to day lives of foot soldiers in Falluja, Iraq before the clampdown\/invasion of the city. The co-directors, Garrett Scott and Ian Olds, spent 6 weeks with a small group of soldiers letting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}