Aussie Oscar winner Eva Orner slams US as 'war criminals'

[stephanie]

The Australian filmmaker won an Academy Award for best feature documentary as co-producer of Taxi to the Dark Side, a film about the US Government's use of torture in its war against terror.

The documentary features interviews with US soldiers who participated in the torture of suspects in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.

Orner said she did not blame low-ranking soldiers for such behaviour.

"Obviously, everyone's responsible for their own actions, but you put people in bad situations who are ill-equipped, not trained, under enormous pressure and getting orders from above to do bad things," she told ABC Radio from Los Angeles today.

"I don't really believe it is terribly much their fault, it comes from much higher sources. The current administration are a bunch of war criminals and they need to be stopped. People need to know what's going on."

Orner said she was surprised such a dark film - directed by Alex Gibney - had won the Oscar.

"This is one of the toughest films I think either of us has made," she said.

"It wasn't a lot of fun."

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...19-952,00.html

[diuretic]

Bush thinks her name is Eva Ornery

[stephanie]

Bush thinks her name is Eva Ornery

Well it's also evident.....just cause you might look nice, doesn't mean you have two brain cells that you can rub together and hope it makes you sound smart.......so winning an Oscar doesn't necessarily mean you are.........smart, eh.....

[stephanie]

[diuretic]

Most people win an Oscar for pretending to be someone else - how bloody weird is that??????

[stephanie]

Most people win an Oscar for pretending to be someone else - how bloody weird is that??????

Well.........they are actors......no said they were world scholars........

[glockmail]

No wonder the TV audience was down 21% from last year. Who wants to watch a bunch of whining ingrates?

[retiredman]

So steph...have you SEEN the movie?

[gabosaurus]

So steph...have you SEEN the movie?

Why watch the movie when you can cut-and-paste criticizing articles? Requires a lot less effort and, more importantly, a lot less thinking.

[Abbey Marie]

Didn't these Oscars have the lowest ratings of all time? People don't want to see these dark, depressing movies (I refer to the Best Picture nominees), therefore don't give a hoot which one wins. And anti-war pics have been box office disasters of late. Hollywood is hopelessly out of synch with the public.

As Dillo has been telling us lately in another thread, IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER.

[stephanie]

Why watch the movie when you can cut-and-paste criticizing articles? Requires a lot less effort and, more importantly, a lot less thinking.

you should win an oscar..you repeat the same lines over and over and over....

[Monkeybone]

ooooooo... slamming the US about the war. that is why she won....just so.....original, ya know? a breath of freash air with that in depth and thought provoking...um....thought.

[diuretic]

Well.........they are actors......no said they were world scholars........

Exactly! And guess what? They speak words someone else wrote for them!

[diuretic]

ooooooo... slamming the US about the war. that is why she won....just so.....original, ya know? a breath of freash air with that in depth and thought provoking...um....thought.

So, let's see how her film does in the markeplace of ideas.

[stephanie]

So steph...have you SEEN the movie?

Nope.....we don't have a theater in my town of 350 people..

Your point???