Thought we'd finish up the mid-east sub-theme in Scott's movies, and the only one based completely on a true story. Of course, Kingdom of Heaven is ostensibly based on true events, and the overall story is, but the details are lost to history, so the details had to be "imagined." Body of Lies is a work of fiction that cherry picks stuff from real "intelligence" reports and actions. Black Hawk Down is based almost exclusively on actual radio communication or interviews with soldiers that were there. For this reason, the movie comes off to some people as ideologically one-sided. I agree, it is one-sided, but I do not share that it is ideologically so. It's the sort of story that would be very difficult to tell any other way. What are people going to do, go the modern day Somalia and try to get the Somali side of the story?? They place is still starving, still run by criminals and/or religious warlords that don't give a jot about the people there. Some young girls have even been stoned to death for being raped in front of crowds that look they are gathered for a football game... The Somali people certainly deserve, have always dissevered better!! And I'm not saying that "we" are the ones responsible for them in any way, paternalistically so, or humanitarianly, or as a matter of law enforcement; they just such an ancient culture, their language alone is a historical gift to the world, they deserve a better place in it. Anyway, just my two cents worth on the film's focus. I was able to find a clip of part of Hans Zimmer's amazing soundtrack on You Tube.
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