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The War Within (2005)
wonderful movie
"the war within" is a wonderful and highly disturbing movie. it tells a gripping story, a thriller about whether or not a terrorist will be stopped. but there is much more to it. we have become so used to thinking of the world in terms of good and evil, of victims and culprits - and now here is a story that totally denies any of these comfortable categories. i follow a (brillantly acted) character through his obscure path to kill a great number of people. but there is no attempt to explain. i am confronted with a person that remains strangely fascinating and tangible enough to make me want to understand, but every time i feel like i am getting close to empathy, i fall back into the strangeness of an inner world i realize i don't know anything about. this is the kind of stories that need to be told now - in order to stop our hybrid fantasies of controlling the world. there is absolutely no strategy in dealing with despair.