If one more person asks me what I’m going to do after I graduate, I’m going to summon my best Napoleon Dynamite impression and answer, “Whatever I feel like I wanna do! GOSH!”
Category: movies
Instead of finishing my homework, I took a long break and watched Control Room on OnDemand (from the Sundance Channel), an excellent documentary about Al Jazeera’s coverage of the invasion of Iraq. I’m not really sure what to say about it other than it was captivating, sad, amusing in some parts, and the politics surrounding the invasion and media coverage of the invasion are simply disturbing (I knew they were disturbing before but this was a good reminder of something that I feel I’ve grown to accept over the past few years). Overall, I think it presented both sides fairly and really got at the heart of how and why Arabs and Americans view the Middle East so differently.
A little side trivia – the movie is directed by Jehane Noujaim, who also directed Startup.com, another one of my favorite documentaries. MSNBC has a nice interview with her (and some clips of Control Room).
Yay for young, smart Arab American women making movies!